What genetics is teaching us about sexuality

範疇 (D) 研究數據 科學研究 D0002
作者 Steven M. Phelps, Robbee Wedow
題目 What genetics is teaching us about sexuality
日期 20190829
簡介 As researchers in biology and sociology who are also gay men, we have long wondered (and debated) whether sexual orientation has any biological basis.

A study published Thursday in Science looked at the DNA and sexual behavior of nearly 500,000 people… Researchers since the 1940s have described sexual orientation as a single trait that exists on a scale, ranging from “exclusively heterosexual” to “exclusively homosexual.” But the new study suggests that sexuality is more diverse than that — many different things, rather than one thing in greater or lesser degrees.

But when the researchers tried to add up the contributions of each DNA variant they examined, they could predict less than 1 percent of the variation among study participants.
來源 New York Times (PM)
連結 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/opinion/genetics-sexual-orientation-study.html
關鍵詞 Gay gene, Genetic influence, Sexual orientation, Scientific research, Policy implication

The gay gene myth has been exploded

範疇 (D) 研究數據 科學研究 D0001
作者 Paul Sullins
題目 The gay gene myth has been exploded
日期 20190903
簡介 The findings of a study of the genetic basis of homosexuality published last week in the journal Science explode the false narrative that being gay is an innate condition that is controlled or largely compelled by one’s genetic makeup.

Rebutting decades of search by LGBT scientists for a “gay gene”, the study’s first author flatly concludes “it will be basically impossible to predict one’s sexual activity or orientation just from genetics”.
來源 Mercatornet (PM)
連結 https://mercatornet.com/the-gay-gene-myth-has-been-exploded/24683/#
關鍵詞 Gay gene, Genetic influence, Sexual orientation, Scientific research, Policy implication

兒童期的性別不安

範疇 (C) 性教育 性別理論 C0001
作者 多元文化專責小組
題目 兒童期的性別不安
日期 20180914
簡介 以往治療性別認同障礙兒童的方法是心理輔導，大約八至九成的患者，最終會接受自己的天生性別。近年推行了新的療法，用變性手術去改造生理性別，以迎合不相符的心理性別 。
來源 公教報
連結 http://kkp.org.hk/node/17463
關鍵詞 兒童, 性別理論, 性別不安, 治療, 變性手術

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