The Difficulty of Studying Queerness Scientifically  Queerness
is a phenomenon that's notoriously difficult to define—many
people spend years debating over how to define their own sexual
preference, and it's common for people of all ages to change
their minds and redefine their sexual preferences in different
ways. But in order for the "gay gene" research to mean anything
at all, we have to presume that the people whose brains,
chromosomes, and various body parts are being studied have been
correctly catgorized under their "true" sexual preference. Since
practically all of us who have ever considered ourselves queer
have also at one time in our lives considered ourselves hetero,
it should be obvious that if queerness is really something
lifelong and unchangeable, then there will inevitably be a
significant number of miscategorizations that will seriously
undermine the "gay gene" researchers' ability to collect
accurate information. Different researchers have tried several
different methods of categorizing peo