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[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Homosexuality in men is in principle physically measurable. Attach a device that measures small changes in diameter to a flaccid penis, then show a diverse sequence of erotic images to the owner of said penis - comparison of diameter in response to either biological sex will provide a reasonable quantitation of sexual orientation. I'm guessing something similar could be done for women, perhaps with moisture.

I know of no way to measure the magical feeling of gender that exists entirely within somebody's head.

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Photoplethysmography. Same idea, it's based on genital vasocongestion: which in men causes erection and in women it causes blood plasma to seep through the vaginal wall--this is the main constituent of lubrication. Instead of a strain gauge or volumetric device, it's a tampon-sized widget consisting of a light source and a photodetector. These work in tandem to measure a relative quantity of blood in surrounding tissue, and hypothetically, arousal.

There are some issues comparing the results of phallometry in men and photoplethysmographic results in women, however: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-01599-5 Should get you started if you want to know more.... but at this point... TMI? =)