We used a sample of 1,210
single heterosexual males (23 %) and females (77 %), age 18 — 30 years, who took the READY assessment.
While most people indeed have a
heterosexual orientation and identify with a
single gender that was assigned to them at birth, it has become increasingly clear that this is not the case for everyone, that gender and sexuality might better be understood as manifesting themselves along continuums, with
male / female, masculine / feminine,
heterosexual / homosexual existing at the poles but with a variety of identities, orientations, and expressions in between.