#5"Why “Born This Way” is a Bad Defense That We Need to Stop Depending on""(...) the salient features of sexual orientation are behavioural (sex, attraction, and relationships), rather than morphological characteristics. Complex behavioural traits are notoriously difficult to attribute to genetics and other biological factors, and the existing body of scientific literature still disputes many of the recent genetic and other biological discoveries. While there are some correlations to certain heritable characteristics, there is no conclusive link between particular sexualities and their biological origins. The scientific literature is full of discoveries and subsequent caveats, and the best that can be said is that there is a loose consensus amongst geneticists that some evidence exists for a genetic predisposition towards homosexuality, but that it’s highly unlikely that such a thing as a ‘gay gene’ exists.The essentialist position of ‘born this way’ further empowers medical authorities to validate and legitimise sexuality. Historically this has been a two-edged sword: the decriminalisation of homosexuality followed the American Medical Association declassifying homosexuality as a mental illness; however, this forgets that this authority created those classifications in the first place." https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/born-way-bad-defense-need-stop-depending/___________"What If Gay-Rights Advocates’ ‘Born This Way’ Argument Is Wrong?"(...) the nuance and fluidity of human sexual experience makes it hard to effectively categorize and analyze. “You say, okay, I’m going to get some gay people and I’m going to test whether their brains are different or something,” Walters said. “You already presume to know what is gay and who is gay. If someone has desires to act on it, are they in that study’s sample? If they act on it, but they don’t declare themselves, they don’t feel that’s who they are in their everyday lives, are they in the sample? If they’ve had both sets of experiences, are they in the sample? If someone says, I’m a lesbian, but boy do I get turned on by gay male porn, are they in that sample? It narrows the vast complexity and richness of human sexuality to think that there is some simple one or the other way of looking at it: gay, straight, this desire, that desire. And it flies in the face of both our history and other cultural experiences.”https://www.thecut.com/2014/06/what-if-born-this-way-is-wrong.html