The hormone stuff is, to be generous, overly general and ill informed, but the section on homosexuality is full of stereotypes and misinformation.
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In the case of homosexuals, however, it seems their body has the right set of hormones until puberty, but at that time, the levels change drastically.
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No. The evidence is that for male homosexuals, variant androgen levels during gestation are primarily responsible for exclusive male homosexuality, most likely excess androgen during the development of certain sexually dimorphic brain structures. There is no evidence of male homosexuality being linked to pubescent hormone levels and most gay males identify in that way all their lives.
There's little evidence of a hormonal cause, either prenatal or pubescent or genetic general cause of female homosexuality. Environmental factors during developmental years tend to be a big influence, but we mostly don't know why lesbians are homosexual.
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Take in the stereotype of most lesbians being butch bull-dykes.
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A highly inaccurate stereotype. Manner of presentation varies all over the board from femme to butch. The current trend is to move towards the androgynous middle, but there are plenty of us at the ends.
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They are such because they have more testosterone.
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This is the closest you've gotten to getting something right. There is some evidence of a correlation between a bull-dyke presentation and higher than normal androgen levels, but it's more of a general trend than definitive and far from a one-to-one correlation.
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Gay males are more effeminate since they have more testosterone.
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Not all gay males are effeminate, though a significant minority are, and there's no evidence that I've seen of a link to excess testosterone and femme presentation. Femmes are often that way from early childhood, long before pubescent hormones take effect.
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Manly gays do not exist, it is simply a foil for their womanlyness.
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Uh, no. You're just wrong here.
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Effeminate lesbians do not exist either, since they can only foil as such to get other females to talk to them.
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Sorry, wrong again. I'm a femme lesbian. My wife is a mostly femme lesbian. Manner of presentation may be a style choice, political or social statement, or just what feels right. Many femme lesbians are that way because they just like being girly, just like straight women.
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In this case, while their gonads are still their, their pheromone reception is off on some level, at a genetic base.
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Really close on this one. Dang it, I thought you had it there until you got to the genetic part. We do know that gay male brains process pheremones in a similar manner to those of straight women, and lesbian brains process pheromones in a similar manner to those of straight men, but because experience does alter the brain, we don't know at this point if the variant brain activity is the cause or the result of being homosexual.
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Genetics determine orienation, quod est demonstradtum.
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Sorry, no. In males there's likely a genetic component, but the strongest link is to prenatal hormones, and there is very little evidence of a genetic component in females, who seem to be more influenced by social environment factors.
I'm curious as to how old this person, because it makes a big difference in how I'd evaluate this essay. It's generally competently written in terms of sentence structure and mechanics, and has a good progression from one paragraph to the next with each having a clearly delineated purpose, and the thesis is well-defined, but the development of the thesis itself seems to be derived from a lot of faulty information and guesswork, and the internal logic doesn't hold up well.
Gilda