Ray,
A useful (and encouraging) news item you posted.
Yes, the tide is turning and we're beginning to get some objective
research (and sense) into this business of homosexuality. In recent
decades, homosexuals have been very clever in branding those of us who
don't like to see rampant homosexuality around us as being
"homophobic". People like me don't fear homosexuality, except
that we would rather keep them from being too influential on our children
or our grandchildren at their critical puberty and adolescent stage of
life which could restrict their future experience of the wonderful joys
of the other sex and the procreation and raising of children. It would be
more accurate to call homosexuals "gynophobic" (sexually, that
is). I am no more anti-homosexual than I am anti-married couples who
decide to have no children (as is the case of one of my children) or only
one child. Both (as wide-spread phenomena these days in all so-called
"developed" countries) occur in many social mammals when they
are overpopulated, and are indicative of a highly-stressed society --
which, at present, doesn't want to replenish itself.
There have always been homosexuals -- but only in small numbers, not in
the large minority found today (even glorified) in developed countries
(10% or thereabouts?). Homosexuals are often delightful people and
creative, too. I know several such in the world of music, but I also know
other much older homosexuals who have lost their sexual vigour and their
looks and are now very lonely people -- some, quite bitter in temperament
(which, to my mind, is rather convincing evidence that they made a bad
mistake in their youth which deprived them of continuing happiness in
life).
Let's call a spade a spade and call homosexuals unfortunates.
Keith Hudson
At 22:21 23/10/2003 -0400, you wrote:
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SEXUAL IDENTITY HARD-WIRED BY GENETICS, STUDY SAYS
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Sexual identity is wired into the genes,
which discounts the concept that homosexuality and transgender sexuality
are a choice, California researchers reported on Monday.
"Our findings may help answer an important question why do we
feel male or female?" Dr. Eric Vilain, a genetics professor at the
University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, said in a
statement. "Sexual identity is rooted in every person's
biology before birth and springs from a variation in our individual
genome." His team has identified 54 genes in mice that may explain
why male and female brains look and function differently.
Since the 1970s, scientists have believed that estrogen and testosterone
were wholly responsible for sexually organizing the brain. Recent
evidence, however, indicates that hormones cannot explain everything
about the sexual differences between male and female brains. Published in
the latest edition of the journal Molecular Brain Research, the
UCLA discovery may also offer physicians an improved tool for gender
assignment of babies born with ambiguous genitalia. Mild cases of
malformed genitalia occur in 1 percent of all births -- about 3 million
cases. More severe cases -- where doctors can't inform parents
whether they had a boy or girl -- occur in one in 3,000 births.
"If physicians could predict the gender of newborns with ambiguous
genitalia at birth, we would make less mistakes in gender
assignment," Vilain said. Using two genetic testing methods, the
researchers compared the production of genes in male and female brains in
embryonic mice -- long before the animals developed sex organs. They
found 54 genes produced in different amounts in male and female mouse
brains, prior to hormonal influence. Eighteen of the genes were
produced at higher levels in the male brains; 36 were produced at higher
levels in the female brains.
"We discovered that the male and female brains differed in many
measurable ways, including anatomy and function," Vilain said.For
example, the two hemispheres of the brain appeared more symmetrical in
females than in males. According to Vilain, the symmetry may
improve communication between both sides of the brain, leading to
enhanced verbal expressiveness in females. "This anatomical
difference may explain why women can sometimes articulate their feelings
more easily than men," he said.
The scientists plan to conduct further studies to determine the specific
role for each of the 54 genes they identified. "Our findings may
explain why we feel male or female, regardless of our actual
anatomy," said Vilain. "These discoveries lend credence
to the idea that being transgender feeling that one has been born
into the body of the wrong sex is a state of mind.
Reuters, October 20, 2003
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Keith Hudson, Bath, England,
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