10.7 million Americans consider themselves lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, or about 3.4% of our population. How does homosexuality happen? Is a man gay because of his missing father and domineering mother? Is a woman gay because she wants to please her father by proving that she is worthy of the love she cannot receive from him? Recently, most studies on the genetic responsibilities of homosexuality have focused on men, but the observations from these experiments are believed to apply to women as well. Homosexuality is not strictly genetic, but epigenetic and has characteristics of an inherited trait. Before you can delve into the emotional and scientific rabbit hole that is human sexuality, you need to understand that a person's biological sex is not the only factor that contributes to sexual orientation. and sexual behavior. Each person has hundreds of characteristics that influence what we call sexual orientation, but most of them fall into about 6 different categories. The first is biological sex, which is written in DNA. This is what a person is born with and most likely the label that doctors give at birth. Then there is gender identity, or the gender with which a person identifies. Regardless of what parts one is born with, this is the trait that describes whether a person feels like a man, or a woman, or something in between, or nothing at all. This is why sex is an incorrect determination of the pronoun used to describe a person because it assumes that their gender identity is the same as their biological sex, and this is not always the case. If a person's gender identity is unknown or different from their biological sex, the pronoun gender should be used to describe he, she, or that. Then there is one's symbolic heart, which... in the center of the card... .bios. Retrieved November 16, 2013, from http://www.nimbios.org/press/FS_homosexualityFate, F. (2013, January 16). Identical Twins: The Truth Behind Their Similarity. The Ethics of Reproductive Medicine Frozen Fate. Retrieved November 16, 2013, from http://thefrozenfate.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/identical-twins-the-truth-behind-their-similarity/Green, Hank. "Human sexuality is complicated...." YouTube. YouTube, October 12, 2012. Web. November 16, 2013. .Is homosexuality a choice?. (2008, March 28). YouTube. Retrieved November 20, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYMjXucTFaMKoebler, J. (2012, December 11). Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of why people are gay. News from the United States. Retrieved November 16, 2013, from http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/12/11/scientists-may-have-finally-unlocked-puzzle-of-why-people-are-gay