As we now have trans as a protected class it has shown the slippery slope in full free fall from the “gay rights” debate a decade ago. The problem is that laws based on fallacies will always be abused because their is no need to prove that any additions are legitimate. We have known for centuries men and women are not equal, we have known for centuries that racial aggregates depended on the culture dictating genetics. When we pretended that this didn’t matter we opened the door for non-biological protected classes. There has never been any evidence that being gay or trans is genetic, and there has been inconclusive evidence that gay and trans is biological at all aside from the biological impact occurring from grooming. In fact the best biological evidence we have is that external stimuli (aka other people) is what causes biological changes in the individual. Yet now we have more protected classes that are inherently non-biological than provably biological. These abuses are meant to subjugate not protect, they are meant to deny reality in place of accepting it.
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Yes we do know in some exact ways intelligence and height are genetic. Follow the links in my previous comment about genetic inheritance affecting intellectual capacity. Those are irrefutable traits that can be observed in gene clusters during the natal period of development.
It's the same way that we know for a fact that the lack of proper nutrients from the FGF43 gene or the GH1 hormone gene affects growth. These are just a few of the strands part of more than 700 gene clusters that affect height. We know this and can observe this from the natal stage of development up until adulthood.
How tall someone becomes is based on their environmental conditioning, though, just like how intellect someone becomes is based on their environmental conditioning. Physiological capacity is not the same as behavioural growth.
But in regards to homosexuality... where are the genes that force you to become homosexual? What gene clusters are they located in? Where are these allele strands?
I keep asking this question, and no one in any community, not even the science community, opts to answer. There's just a lot of equivocation about gene percentages affecting homosexual behaviour, yet zero indication what these genes are and where they're located or what they do, especially during perinatal and neonatal development.
Except they have touched it, thousands and thousands and thousands of times with pointless and meandering bloviating and sophistry.
Nearly 40,00 articles about the subject matter, and all of it avoids the basic scientific question that should have been raised when the false postulations were put forth back in the 1980s: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=homosexual
And of the multiple studies that were done, none of them could show any gene clusters associated with homosexuality during natal development: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02585-6
All of the science related to observing gene expression in homosexuals only showcases traits expressed in post-behavioural epigenetics, specifically gene expression related to addiction, heavy marijuana use, and depression.
Common sense tells us that it stands to reason that a myriad of environmental conditions play various roles in helping that behaviour develop, since no one is born with genes based solely on culturally developed traits.
Except this is completely wrong. I'm not the one who claimed, as a truism, that people are born gay. This was started as a hoax based on nothing, ZERO science. And yet it was taken at face value.
Now people are wrongly attacking anyone who criticizes that falsehood and upholding that falsehood under zero scrutiny.
You're right that there SHOULD be a hypothesis that asks “Can you be born gay and is homosexuality genetic?” at which point the question should be scrutinized until it is validated.
All of the genetic and neurological results today emphatically says NO you are not born gay because there is zero evidence to support that claim, in fact the evidence all points in the opposite direction.
This is the crux of the issue here, though, because everyone who believes what you believe are working backwards to find evidence to support a claim rooted in nothing.
It's the equivalent of everyone who believes that the Russians hacked the 2016 elections because Hillary Clinton said so, therefore they're now trying to find evidence to support the claim. As opposed to finding evidence that the Russians hacked the 2016 elections and then Hillary made a claim based on the evidence.
Do you not see how asinine that is? That an unverified and unvalidated claim is taken as a truism and anyone who questions it or attempts to scrutinize its validity is condemned or castigated, as opposed to the claim itself being scrutinized?
No one in this thread who supports the “born gay” hoax has even bothered to ask the same simple questions I'm asking, not even you. In fact, you're actually defending the opposite position, that homosexuality could be genetic even though you have no evidence to support that claim.
Your position should be, "Maybe people could be born gay but there is no science that supports that position based on the publicly available literature". That would be the reasonable stance to take for anyone who hasn't actually studied physiology or genetics.
The problem is that there never has been evidence to support that claim because because everyone has gone about addressing the issue backwards.
That's why in my above comment I said anyone supporting that homosexuality is rooted in some form of genetics is committing the fallacy of begging the question. Why? Because...
WHERE. IS. THE. EVIDENCE?
It's like claiming the sun is purple and stating it must be true, and anyone who doesn't believe it is homophobic. And so for 40 years scientists desperately attempt to find evidence to prove that the sun is purple, as opposed to asking “Is the sun purple?” and examining spectral analysis and realizing the sun, in fact, is not purple.
That's where we are with the “born gay” hoax. Everyone brainwashed to believe a lie and hold onto that lie because they've been inculcated to believe said lie with zero evidence, and anyone who questions said lie, is labeled as the one who is in the wrong.
It's ludicrous that we're even at this point where the scientific method has been so thoroughly and utterly destroyed to support propagandists' narratives.
Except we do know? Again, I already linked to studies showing the heritability of certain traits associated with intelligence. Here is another: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14594743/
Perceptual awareness and cognitive analysis are essential in intellectual growth. You can genetically inherit honed or reduced motor skill functions and cognitive processing, due to a mixture of various other traits as well, including speech discernment, eyesight, and motor-skill coordination. All of those traits affect your intellectual capacity, but HOW you behave and what behaviour you adapt will determine how your intelligence is exhibited.
You've also done exactly what the other poster did in the previous comment, make the false equivalence between physiological traits and observed behaviour.
Physiological capacity =/= behavioural propensity.
Intellectual capacity is determined by genetic inheritance. Exhibitory behaviour is based on individual choices.
Again, link to me the study showing any sort of gene cluster or allele strand in the natal stage of development that forces you to engage in homosexual behaviour?
Can you? No? Then you need to go back to the beginning and question the original claim, not the people scrutinizing the claim because it lacks evidence.
We know for a fact that intelligence is associated with inherited genetic traits; traits that can be observed in gene clusters during natal development. This is a capacitative observation, not a behavioural observation. Ergo, you can measure what certain traits a child may excel at based on certain genetic structures developed during natal growth.
There are ZERO gene clusters, strands, or anything within the human genome observed during natal development that even relates remotely to homosexual behaviour, a large part of this is due to the fact that the organ responsible for sexual attraction, the hypothalamus, is not even properly developed during that stage of birth.
It has less than 20% of its cell structure during that stage, and is only developed enough to help the gonads form (i.e., ovaries in females, testes in males), but not enough to allow the pituitary gland to secret neurotransmitters known as gonadotropin, which then affects sexual cognizance: https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Endocrine_-_Hypothalamus_Development
Those neurotransmitters don't become active until post-natal development.
I never said that. You did. I've argued against the anti-science, anti-evidence, anti-fact stance that gays are “born that way” when you and the rest of the people falling into the propaganda trap by the establishment have yet to provide any evidence showing any proof to satisfy that argument.
I just keep repeating the same thing, asking for evidence for your claims but none of you who support those arguments have been able to do so, not on the grounds of genetics, no on the grounds of biochemistry, and certainly not on the grounds of neurophysiology.
I would ask you to provide an argument that actually provides the substantial evidence that backs up the extraordinary claims that have been falsely circulating since the 1980s, but the best you'll be able to do is prevaricate and deflect.
This is an argument I've never made, and again, there is zero evidence showing immutable genetic traits dictating that kind of behaviour.
Otherwise, if people keep claiming it's genetic, it's about as inane as claiming that being a gaming addict is genetic, or being emo is genetic, even though those are all behavioural choices influenced by the environment, since there are no video game genes and there is no emo gene (although some genes can be influenced to enable addictive behaviour, any exhibited behaviour is still choice-driven by the individual).