It’s NOT A Choice!
New research is helping to put the final nails in the tired argument that homosexuality is a choice. A study performed at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found similarities in brain structure and connectivity between straight men and gay women and gay men and straight women.
MRI scans found that the right hemisphere of the brain was larger than the left in straight men and gay women. The hemispheres were symmetrical in gay men and straight women. PET scans showed strong similarities in the connectivity of the amygdala - responsible for the fight-or-flight reflex and emotional learning - between straight men and gay women and between gay men and straight women.
“This is a very interesting study demonstrating a possible neurobiological relationship in brain size between gay men and straight women,” said Paul Sanberg, distinguished professor of neurosurgery and director of the University of South Florida Center for Aging and Brain Repair in Tampa.
“I do think this is pointing to some type of neurobiological underpinning [to sexual orientation],” added Keith A. Young, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine in Waco.”
Of course this won’t stop fundie nutters like Fred Phelps, John Hagee and Rod Parsley from claiming that homosexuals choose to have their brains develop like heterosexual members of the opposite sex, that the development of the homosexual brain is a sure sign of demon possession or some other ridiculous tripe.
There isn’t much you can do to win over public figures who treat science and reason as little more than silly superstitions - except to ridicule them mercilessly in the public square and expose them for the ignorant, hate-filled bigots that they are.
Suck it, Fundies!
Gay Men, Straight Women Have Similar Brains