Another Study Pushes ‘Born Gay’ Urban Legend

July 6, 2006 – Psychologist Anthony Bogaert of Brock University in Canada has published a new study allegedly finding a biological reason for homosexuality in males. The study, “Biological versus non-biological older brothers and men’s sexual orientation,” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recently.

The study has been touted worldwide as evidence of a genetic origin of homosexuality in males. According to Bogaert, a family with older brothers has a higher than average rate of younger homosexual siblings. This effect, claims Bogaert could be due to the mother’s immune system memorizing the number of male fetuses and altering hormones with each succeeding infant. This could impact the sexual differentiation in the brain of each succeeding male child. There is no credible evidence that this is true.

Members of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality’s (NARTH) Scientific Advisory Committee have reviewed Bogaert’s study and found it to be fraught with errors and incorrect presuppositions.

NARTH Psychiatrist Joseph Berger, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association has observed: “This study is yet another claim based upon superficial research that may be purely coincidental to or entirely unrelated to the conclusion that the researchers are proposing. … It is totally inappropriate for anyone to claim certainty in a study like this because such a claim is obviously political, not scientific in nature.”

Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons has noted: “In my clinical experience a major issue in regard to older brothers is the rejection a younger brother often experiences from older male siblings. This is particularly the case when the younger brother is not good in sports and is called cruel names by the older brother.”

Read and distribute TVC’s Homosexual Urban Legend: “Exposed: The ‘Born Gay” Urban Legend” and “The Innate-Immutable Argument Finds No Basis in Science In Their Own Words: Gay Activists Speak About Science, Morality, Philosophy” by A. Dean Byrd, Ph.D., MBA, MPH, Shirley E. Cox, DSW, and Jeffrey W. Robinson, Ph.D., and TVC’s Homosexual Urban Legend: “Exposed: The Myth That Psychiatry Has Proven That Homosexual Behavior Is Normal.”

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