Background: In a special ed meeting, discussing kids transferring to high school, I mentioned a student who is struggling with his sexuality (this was brought to me by his parents, who happen to be gay men, the child in question is adopted and is also an identical twin). Anyways, it came up because I was sharing some of the emotional issues he was dealing with and the teacher from the high school asked if his brother has been dealing with the same issues (sexuality) and I said no and she asked if the twins were identical or fraternal, I said identical and she said "well then he will be too..."
This got me thinking. I do believe homosexuality is a chemical thing, in that I don't believe it is a choice someone makes, but if it is indeed chemical then it is genetic (yes?, no?) and then since identical twins share exactly the same DNA I guess (????) what she said would be true, and yet, it rubbed me the wrong way/surprised me/made me think about it.
Any thoughts? I don't know why but I never presumed that if one of the boys was gay the other had to be, even though I do believe homosexuality to be a 'chemical (is this the right term?) thing rather than something just chooses (and hence can unchoose).
K, I am rambling...and this is a P&R.