To put that into perspective, at most in the U.S., there are fewer than 430 children born with this genetic disorder out of 4,300,000 live births per year. If the maximum number of Homosexuals are born a year, 3%, which is probably high, there would be 129,000 born yearly. Yet they have been unable to discover that illusive ‘Gay Gene’. Anecdotal, possibly, compelling certainly.
But, are we looking for a genetic malfunction, or a physical abnormalty? Is there a gene for Cleft Palet, Club-Foot or other birth defect? Is there a gene for mental retardation?
I think, (again without either background in medical or genetics - just a silly engineer)that something is fundamentally ‘flawed’ with these individuals. Perhaps a mis-wiring of some neurons in the brain. Some gay men admit that they were molested as youth - so perhaps some neural pathways were corrupted during formative years - where they were “programmed” while still children (2-4 yrs old). I simply don’t know.
Now, in the case of the Bi-Sexual; IMHO this is a case of someone who simply wants the thrill of sex, and doesn’t care how he or she gets it. But for the truly homosexual - that is something that I (myself) could not be simply talked into. Again, if ‘groomed’ at a young age, I could see a youth growing up desiring sexual release from any willing party. But to prefer one’s own gender - to me, is simply something I cannot imagine.
Judging from what the Gay Community says, they insist - practially unaminously that they were ‘born this way’. I see no reason to disbelieve this assertion. If they weren’t; they would simply say “We’ve tried both, we prefer our own gender”. But, that’s not the case.