An Associated Press article examined the team's finding that this observable difference might suggest how much of the masculinizing hormone androgen is present during fetal development. It seems like shaky science to make this an indicator of sexual orientation, yet this research team did find empirical evidence to support its hypothesis. People are born with brains and the gift of thought and reasoning from God. The way we sometimes use our thought to justify and link relationships as far removed as finger length and sexuality is a misuse of that power we have. Releasing information like that without any context of the study or past findings is just going to have teen-agers, hormonal as they already are, measuring their fingers in their bedrooms, working the long division problem and feeling like they need to come out of the closet.
Hands are useful tools.
Some are stubby. Some are graceful. Some have large knuckles. Some are bony, and some finger lengths do not even match from the right hand to the left. Rather than measuring themselves, hands are better put to use measuring the world around them.