• @Spedwell
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    11 year ago

    heritability is not mentioned nor even involved in this discussion.

    Yep, my bad. Misunderstood the term, I should have said “genetic roots” or something.

    allele expression is INFLUENCED by the environment

    That claim is quite fair. Stating a relationship can exist is uncontroversial.

    you’ve a genetic predisposition towards the sexuality you grow into, it’s a nurture influences nature situation (i.e. how one is raised) that impacts what alleles become active or recessive and that impacts your sexuality (among a wide array of other things, physiological and psychological).

    Frankly I see no other way, from cold context, to read this other than as a claim that there is a “gay gene,” followed by a bit of hedging against the influence of other factors.

    Apologies if I’m misinterpreting you. It could be you’re just stringing together a bunch of broadly true claims about what types of relationships can exist between all these factors.

    It’s a bit of a “shovel, lye, and a hacksaw in the shopping cart” type scenario. Too many broadly true and relatively unoffensive claims in a particular order start to look suspiciously like a particular argument.