BBC news this morning about twins, one straight and one gay

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Awful reporting on this. Though I admit I only saw subtitles so possibly I missed bits but their subtitling is normally very good.

Reporting on a newspaper article about female identical twins, one straight, one gay. Holds up the article with a picture of them both and said “no prizes for guessing which is which”!

They both have the same hairstyle, main difference I could see is that one was in a dress the other in trousers.

Reporter then appeared to blather on about how the gay woman had been a tomboy from a young age and had always been gender non conforming.

It was the “no prizes” comment which really boiled my piss.

I'm really surprised and appalled by that too...not what you would expect from a quality broadcaster.

I know male twins where one is gay...there's really no difference between them and I wouldn't have known one was gay if they hadn't told me.

Wtf?

I assume the article referred to is this. The article itself is fairly neutral and reports what the University of Essex said in its research. The comments are mostly along the lines of people will be what they will be and so what.

I can't spot which is gay and which is straight.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5138857/Sexuality-research-studies-gay-straight-twins.html

The study would be interesting but the researcher is already making false assumptions.

Namely that genetically identical twins are likely to diverge not because of different parenting and environment, but because of prenatal hormones???

Their interuterine environment is FAR more likely to have been near identical than their parenting and childhood experience. Literally dressing one child in dungarees and the other in a dress will shape the responses of the adults around them in a dramatic way, as that recent bbc programme demonstrated so well.

And twins have different personalities for reasons that have nothing to do with either.

So although I think it is very interesting as a study, I suspect the conclusions the researcher will reach will be imbued with some false reasoning.

However this will usefully demonstrate how gender nonconformity correlates with same sex attraction and will open up questions about why we are conflating gnc/same sex attraction/trans so much, and the harm from reaching the wrong conclusion.