Matt Cheney has joined in the discussion of biological “causes” for LGBT people being the way that they are. In particular he points us as this article in Language Log. It figures that if you read that Swedish brain study closely you find that the data isn’t anywhere near as clear cut as most reports made out, so well done to Mark Liberman for reading the paper and checking that out. But I was just as impressed by Liberman’s analysis of the media coverage, which suggests that for most news outlets the message that they were attempting push by covering the story was not “homosexuality is biologically determined”, or even “homosexual people have brains similar to straight people of the opposite sex”, but actually “gay men = women”. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.