Fact Check: Gay people are hormonally formed
“Gay people are hormonally formed”
Summary
Prenatal hormonal environments can influence sexual orientation, and research shows correlations between hormone exposure and later attraction patterns. However, hormones do not solely determine whether someone is gay; genetics, immune factors, and other environmental influences also play significant roles, and much of the variation remains unexplained.
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- The biological basis of sexual orientation: How hormonal, genetic, and environmental factors influence to whom we are sexually attracted - ScienceDirect
In this review, we systematically discuss recent advancements in sexual orientation research, including those related to measurements and associated brain regions. Current findings regarding sexual orientation modulation by hormonal, genetic, maternal immune system, and environmental factors are summarized in both human and model systems.
- Biological origins of sexual orientation and gender identity: Impact on health - ScienceDirect
Prenatal hormone variations have been shown to correlate with many neurologic, physiologic and anatomic traits that typically express together and are congruent with sexual orientation and gender identity, demonstrating a mutual biological causality ...
- A short review of biological research on the development of sexual orientation - ScienceDirect
We review research supporting ... of sexual orientation. This research includes studies on neural correlates, prenatal hormones and related physical/behavioral correlates, genetics, and the fraternal birth order effect (FBOE). These studies, taken together, have provided substantial support for biological influences underlying ...
- Hormones and sexual orientation: a questionable link - PubMed
Overall, the data do not support a causal connection between hormones and human sexual orientation. ... The PubMed wordmark and PubMed logo are registered trademarks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
- Minireview: Hormones and human sexual orientation - PubMed
It seems therefore that the prenatal endocrine environment has a significant influence on human sexual orientation but a large fraction of the variance in this behavioral characteristic remains unexplained to date. Genetic differences affecting behavior either in a direct manner or by changing embryonic hormone secretion or action may also be involved.
- Reconsidering Prenatal Hormonal Influences on Human Sexual Orientation: Lessons from Animal Research - PubMed
Reconsidering Prenatal Hormonal Influences on Human Sexual Orientation: Lessons from Animal Research
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