It's probably not a choice of any kind, other than the fact that there are probably
very many people walking around with these feelings to one degree or another, but who
pursue lives that don't really include homosexual relationships. This is why when someone
says something really stupid, like "All transgenderd people are just gay people with other
problems," you can get really annoyed at the foolishness of that conclusion, and then if
you are like me, loose a week of sleep looking shit up.

I know that progress is slow in regards to making the biochemical and genealogical studies
to answer these questions, but apparently, they don't let you experiment on people, even if
the science is really good and interesting! Go figure.

But what we do know is this.

In the seventies, several doctors in Europe, including a couple of pathologists came up
with a conclusion that made people on the conservative theological (The gay is a just a
choice side.) the galloping trots. They said that with no other information about the
person on their table, they could look at their brain, and have an approximately eighty ]
percent chance of telling if they were gay.

Crazy, right?

Well, here is where that leads, and why there is not already a genetic test for gaydom,
gayness, or gay-i-tude.

Humans are one of the most flexible and adaptable species we've ever seen with the possible
exception of some birds and bacteria. All the things that had us tied up for so long,
Mongoloid people being less intelligent, Negroid people who just are not as good... you get
the drift. Point is, that we are all, on a genetic basis, virtually equal in every way that
we can measure. The differences that confused the curious and the ignorant alike for so
many centuries, are due to the fact humans, Family Hominidae, Genus Homo, H. Sapiens Sapiens,
are able to generate such variation. If you take your average Aboriginal Australians say,
and transport them to Luelea Sweeden, and if they survive, you get ABBA in a few hundreds of
generations. I mean really Fast.

Now this is simply Variation within one race, within one species. That's why we don't use
Race anymore, because we are all one Race in the anthropological sense, or in a taxonomic
sense, one species.

This is probably one of the major reasons why we survived, and so many of our brother Hominids
died out, as it probably kept us alive long enough for our more developed brains to do some
good.

Now. This is also why we probably won't see a genetic test, as many of the gender issues,
and indeed sexuality may be hormone related, hormones we are all carrying around with us, but
it is that adaptability that makes us what we are.

What we do know is as follows. When a female has a male child, that first male child has a
good chance of being heterosexual, and passing along the genes of the mother and father as a
first imperative. With each succeeding male child, there seems to be an approximately thirty-
percent chance increase for each male child, that that male will be homosexual. Now, you get
down to number three or four, and the odds clearly favor, he never had a choice.

People who understand natal development, seem to think that this is due to the mother's body,
because of the presence of the little alien male in her system, a male whose testosterone level
reaches its highest level in his life at about 13-20 weeks, is attacked by the mother's system.
I'm not sure if it's her hormonal system, and or her immune system, but an immune system response
would be easier to track down in a few years, because it would leave antibodies behind, that will
be identified eventually. What they agree on, however, is that the mothers body becomes better
at this, and more reactive and more effective at 'feminizing' the little male.

Now, no one with a brain bigger than a pea thinks that if this is a viable mechanism for explaining
at least some people's sexual identity, that it is the only way it could happen. Obviously once this
kind of mechanism is in place, all sorts of things could go in that direction. Suffice it to
say, it is a very, very, interesting statistic... with statistics being the first step to many
of our biochemical and medical models.

I don't know why Lesbians occurred, other than there are some pretty interesting evolutionary ideas
that would make a successful mother, one with a lot of viable offspring, find several other female
progeny around her to help, who did not go off and start breeding like mad a soon as they hit puberty,
a reasonably useful thing. Just like not having a bunch of alpha males, who would immediately start
killing each other. You don't want't to stop having children, but having them not killing each other
off as fast as you can make 'em is an even better idea.

Now, as for that first report that everyone really scoffed at?

Turns out that in males, the right hemisphere of the Brain is usually about 8-12 cc larger. Unless
you are a homosexual male, and then they tend to be exactly the same size. In Females, the average
heterosexual female will usually have the same size hemispheres in her brain. Pretty close, at least.
In those who are identify as lesbian, the brain which is usually a little smaller than in adult males,
is about 5-6 cc's larger on the right side.

We may not know what's going one, and they won't let you dissect people, but with the better medical
tools, like High Resolution MRI's, chemical tags and markers, and the ability to trace biological
compounds down to very small levels, we will see some interesting stuff in the next... say ten years.
What we have found out for sure, and what does not seem to be popular in the media for some strange
reason, is what the above tells us. Being an asymmetric brained, or Feng shui brained, is certainly
not a choice. There may be biologically gay people who behave heterosexually, as there may be biologically
heterosexual people who are really gay. We are very adaptable, and gender/sexuality is very complex.
But even if 'choice'is a little part of the equation, it's not the most important.

It's hard to look a lot of the developmental stuff up. It seems that every Obstetrician who ever
got a grant tried to do a study on hormones vs fetal gender/development, so you have to be pretty
specific in your searches. In the next ten years or so, provided Fox news doesn't take over all media,
someone will finally do it for us.

Sorry guys... Couldn't let that one pass. Not here

Sarah Lynn