6/27/2006

That's what happens when you grow a baby in a pink uterus

I've often bitterly speculated on which position, if any, anti-gay and anti-choice people would give up if it were demonstrated that sexual orientation is something you're born with. Well, here's one for you -- new research suggests that not only is orientation a congenital trait, but that the mother's body may make some male fetuses gay.

One the one hand, any evidence that sexual orientation is inborn can only be a good thing in terms of beating back the "lifestyle choice" argument for discrimination. On the other, my gimlet eye foresees some loons blaming mothers for a gay sons (as if they could control their uterine hoodoo) and using this as another "reason" why women and their funky reproductive tracts warrant outside supervision.

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