what do you think? gay people choose to be gay or they where born that way?

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Scientists have reported that they've found an "extremely unusual" trait in the cells of some mothers with two or more gay sons, providing more evidence to suggest that homosexuality might be inherited.

Mothers of multiple gay sons were about six times more likely than other women to process their X chromosomes in a certain way, researchers discovered.

Researchers aren't entirely sure what the findings mean, said study co-author Sven Bocklandt, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA. Making things more complicated, about 75 percent of mothers of multiple gay sons don't have the trait.

Still, the study, released Tuesday in the journal Human Genetics, raises plenty of questions, Bocklandt said, especially as researchers try to figure out whether homosexuality has genetic roots and if there truly is a "gay gene" -- or genes.

"What everybody wants is the gene, and we don’t have it yet," Bocklandt said. "But this is an independent confirmation that the X chromosome is involved."

Bocklandt and colleagues looked at a phenomenon known as X-chromosome inactivation, in which cells inside the bodies of females automatically turn off -- or inactivate -- one of their two X chromosomes. That leaves them with one working X chromosome -- just like males, who have a single X and a single Y chromosome.

Normally, each cell in a female's body randomly turns off one or the other X chromosome. In some cases, such as when families share a genetic disease, there is "extreme skewing" -- one X chromosome is more likely to be turned off than the other, Bocklandt said.

In the new study, the researchers looked at 97 mothers of one or more gay sons and 103 women with no gay sons to see what their blood cells did with their X chromosomes. The researchers recruited many of the women with the help of PFLAG.

They found that nearly a quarter of the mothers of multiple gay sons inactivated the same X chromosome -- in other words, nonrandomly -- compared to just 4 percent of the women without gay sons. Of those with one gay son, 13 percent inactivated the same X chromosome.

Dr. Ionel Sandovici, a genetics researcher at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, England, who is familiar with the research findings, cautioned that the study is small, with just 44 mothers of multiple gay sons being examined. More research in larger groups must be done to confirm the results, Sandovici said.

The research does provide "circumstantial evidence" that the X chromosome contributes to the development of male sexuality, Sandovici said. But "we still understand very little about molecular mechanisms of sexual orientation, and this seems to be rather a complicated biological puzzle."

But of course its Nature vs. Nurture and its possible that the person could just become gay because of his environment/experiences or just be born that way.

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of course, they choose

I think they are born that way.

some of them were born to be gay .. some of them were probably wasnt gay but then started liking guys/girls

Born that way. Why would someone choose a life of harship? One could argue that they are born that way, but choose to accept it and I think that is a plausible argument. However, do you choose to prefer blondes over brunettes or vice versa? No, it's some sort of chemical/biological combination.

I say gay people choose to be gay just like racist people are taught racism their not born racist.

I think its a mixture of choice, environment, and genetics.

- People choose because they do not resist (many of them), and they are perfectly willing to be gay. That's a choice, last time I checked.
- Environment because if one were to hang out with only gay/lesbian friends than there is a much greater chance you might become gay (i'm not saying homosexuality is like a contagious disease.just that you might CHOOSE to be gay.)
- Genetics because homosexuality is not normal human behavior because it doesn't spawn reproduction. If not for reproduction, why should a species have sex? It must therefore be genetic.

A famous psychological study, surveyed homosexuals and their identical twins agianst regular siblings. If one twin was gay there was a 50% chance that the other was too. If one sibling was gay there was only a 25% chance. A lot of people think this study proves that sexuality does have a strong genetic root but that there is some wiggle room depending on how one is raised.

Have you seen how hard a time a lot of gay people have, throughout their entire life!!? I doubt they'd go through it and stick with it if it were a matter of choice.

I think people are born this way. Many kids know they are attracted to the same sex starting at a very young age, say around eight or nine. They can go through a lot of pain because they know they are different, but can't yet understand why or even what it is.

We're born that way. TAke it from a true homosexual and not the straight people who think they know. What do straight people know about being gay anyway?!?!

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