# Where's the evidence that says "gay people are born gay"?

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**Created:** [December 27, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-evidence-that-says-gay-people-are-born-gay/478839 "2008-12-27T11:25:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-the-evidence-that-says-gay-people-are-born-gay/478839/53 "2008-12-27T23:24:01Z")

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> [@jtgain](#):
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> I guess this does stray into GD territory. Being left-handed has no inherent disadvantage to being right-handed, it is just different.
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> Being a homosexual means you don’t pass your genes on to the next generation. That is the antithesis of survival.

Seriously, I have an academic background in this stuff and you are about to make my mind blow through blatant ignorance. I am also very much 100% heterosexual, mostly a republican, and raised in a very small town in Louisiana where people could not comprehend this. I could not myself at one point.

1. Homosexuality is most likely not caused by genes. It is caused by sex hormones during development. That is technically “environment” even though it happens in the womb.

2. Plenty of gay people procreate. Lots of them go into traditional marriages as well only to back out years or decades later although some never do.

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