Fraternal Birth Order Effect: Lesbians

QuestionFraternal Birth Order Effect: Lesbians

Posted December 30, 2024 by Opals in Lesbians

32%I have at least one older brother
32%I have at least one older brother
68%I have no older brothers
68%I have no older brothers

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We know about Ray Blanchard discovering the ‘fraternal birth order effect’ for gay men, as well as writing about AGP.

Blanchard has hypothesised that this effect does not exist for women, either heterosexual or homosexual.

I was curious about whether this effect does in fact exist for lesbians - Blanchard seems to have blind spots when it comes to women, and we have no idea who was surveyed for his study as people lie about their sexual orientation (some ‘heterosexual’ women are in fact bisexual and some ‘lesbians’ are bisexual women using the term for the sake of convenience). So given the current state of things, I wanted to ask the most reliable sample of lesbians that we have - which is Ovarit - whether they have at least one older brother

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sealwomyn

January 22, 2025

I'm a firstborn lesbian with zero heterosexual siblings out of half a dozen.. but my mother, despite her chosen religious tradwife lifestyle, I'm pretty damn sure is not straight.

So when we all started cautiously coming out to each other as adults it was pretty hilarious, but we can only assume either it's genetics or some very powerful witch hit our homophobic parents hard with the "may you have a gay kid and have to deal with your homophobia or lose your kid" curse lmao.

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Posted December 30, 2024 by Opals

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