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The myth of "differences in the brain"

As evidence of the “innateness” of homosexual attraction, LGBT* activists often refer to research neuroscientist Simon LeVay from 1991, in which he allegedly discovered that the hypothalamus of "homosexual" men is the same size as that of women, which supposedly makes them homosexual. What did LeVey actually discover? What he didn’t find unequivocally was the connection between brain structure and sexual tendencies. 

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