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Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by vinni2 on Saturday March 22, 2025 @05:59PM (#43448971)
Did you find out your cousin was gay through 23 and me or from him?
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by hn_throwaway_99 on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:33PM (#43449590)
IIRC, his first and last name were visible to me in 23 and me, so I googled him and saw that we was a therapist with a focus on the LGBT community, so then I messaged him through 23 and me, told him a bit of my story and asked him if he was gay.
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by dkh on Saturday March 22, 2025 @07:17PM (#43449471)
This is not the sort of thing a genetic test can determine
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by BurningFrog on Saturday March 22, 2025 @09:07PM (#43450123)
Give it time...
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by wizzwizz4 on Sunday March 23, 2025 @12:02PM (#43453792)
It might not happen. Fingerprints are partly heritable – immigration delay disease, for example, has an identifiable point mutation – but you'd be laughed out of the room if you tried to suggest that given time, we would eventually be able to predict fingerprints from genomes.

Non-heterosexual behaviour can be observed in most social amniotes, even those without fingerprints. Genetically-identical twins do not have identical sexual proclivities. There's no a priori reason to believe there's even a "gay gene" to find.

Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by BurningFrog on Sunday March 23, 2025 @06:41PM (#43456488)
I looked it up, and twin studies say sexual orientation is party genetic, but it's far from the only factor.

So at most a perfect genetic test could give a percentage chance of someone being gay/straight.

I guess that's pretty much what you said.

Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by wizzwizz4 on Sunday March 23, 2025 @06:45PM (#43456505)
And either gayness is evolutionarily beneficial (kin selection?), or it's so fundamental to amniote psychology that evolution can't get rid of it. (Or both, I guess.)
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by asdfasvea on Saturday March 22, 2025 @10:32PM (#43450483)
So you're saying they aren't born that way but it's learned? DSM2 called and something something something.
Re:California AG Rob Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert fo... by Jedd on Saturday March 22, 2025 @10:46PM (#43450527)
That is very much not what is being said.