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The difference between "mutation" and "genetic ailment" (mental illness in this case) is academic at most, purely social at the norm.
A mutation that doesn't cause harm is a mutation. A mutation that does cause harm is a genetic-based ailment.
If you mutate that your arms are two inches shorter than they should be, it's a mutation. If you mutate that your arms are two feet shorter than they should be, it's a genetic ailment. Neck-down alopecia? Mutation. Neck-up alopecia? Ailment. Caved-in flat head? Fashionable and sexy to some points in history. Ailment now.
At a human population bottleneck, adult male homosexuality would be an ailment. At a surplus population, it's a mutation.
That stated, the mysterious "genetic component" has only spurious evidence at best. Taking a flight of CRISPR/MRNA shots or skinny dipping in a radiation coolant pool might alter your genetics, but it isn't going to alter your sexual preferences.
Thanks for the distinction, not a scientist so I'll use it in the future
It's not really a "scientist" distinction, because to proper true scientists, they're all mutations, no such thing as ailments, they don't make values judgements on their research: Is it the norm, or not the norm? (And they do not care whether "the norm" is good or bad).
It's more a linguistic difference.