GAYYYYYY RIGHTS Flashcards
In the 2007 study of NZ teenagers and 2017 Australian teenagers, what was the correlation between suicide and homosexuality?
LGBTQ+ teenagers were more likely to attempt suicide, have suicidal thoughts, engage in delinquent or self-harm behaviours.
What did Sell et al. (1995) and a 2006 NZ study find out about same-sex attraction?
A comparatively high percentage of participants found themselves having same-sex attraction & behaviours since age 15, and 20% of NZ participants found themselves attracted to the same sex.
How much of a genetic basis is there to gender identity and sexual orientation, according to the comparison of dizygotic to monozygotic twins?
There are higher correlations between monozygotic twins than dizygotic twins, indicating that there might be a high genetic basis.
What did Michael & Zucker (1995) find out about the cross-sex-typed childhood behaviours of gays and lesbians?
Majority of lesbians and gay men indicated cross-sex-typed behaviours in their childhood that exceeded the median of straight people. (most gay women = tomboyish, most gay men = ‘feminine’ as children)
In Green’s 1987 study of assessing ‘feminine’ and ‘normal’ boys, how many became gay or fantasised about gay sex?
A small minority for both groups fantasised about gay sex, but the non-feminine boys did not become gay at all. Alternatively, 75% of the feminine boys became gay.
Zucker and Bradley (1995) followed up 55 boys with gender dysphoria. What were the outcomes?
9% were trans, 38% gay, 24% uncertain and 2% identified as straight cross-dressers.
30 girls with gender dysphoria were similarly followed up. What did they find?
50% were lesbian, 27% wanted a sex change and 3% were cross-dressers.
What is the Kinsey Rating Scale?
It ranks the extent of a person’s homo / heterosexuality.
What is diethylstilbestrol (DES) and its role in genetic sexuality?
It is a synthetic estrogen believed to influence an offspring’s sexual preference, where more DES = likelier to be gay SLAY. 1/2 of the differences were significant.
What did Ward (1972) discover about how maternal stress affects sexuality through testosterone levels?
When stressed, the mother releases adrenaline-related hormone that are similar to testosterone, so it binds to receptors that otherwise would have testosterone, thus delaying or blocking the effect of testosterone. Lower testosterone = gayer men. CUNTIFIED
What did Dorner, Shenk, Schmiedel and Ahrens (1983) realise when they interviewed 200 men in Germany and their mothers about their pregnancy stress levels?
There were more bisexual and gay men born during or just after the war than before or after the war. Thus, prenatal stress might increase likelihood of gayness.
In Ellis et al. (2001)’s experiment about mice being exposed to prenatal stress, what was discovered?
Greater prenatal stress = gay men / increased female BISEXUALITY
Maternal smoking increased chances of female and male children to be completely lesbian / gay. True or false?
False. Maternal smoking increased male BISEXUALITY, whilst increasing female lesbianism.
According to Manning (2001), __ out of __ gay men owe their sexuality to their birth order?
1 in 7 gay men.
What did Blanchard et al. (1995) establish about the relationship between the birth order and sexuality of a male?
Gay men tend to be born later and have more brothers.
