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Posted on 01/05/2024 1:17:11 PM PST by Red Badger
Homosexuality seems to be most closely correlated with sexual abuse in childhood.
Where did Chris Krispie get his manboobs?
I’ve known about this for some time. I don’t see it as The Atlantic promoting transgender stuff. I do see it as something that every pregnant woman should know and celebrate. Every pregnant woman including the ones who kill their child in utero needs to know this. The other thing that hit me a few years ago - Mary, the mother of Jesus, had His cells in her body. Meditate on that.
“The Science” doesn’t know.
Pregnant women are large; they contain multitudes.
We are all chimerics now.
it is as someone else said fascinating.
I was unaware of this too.
Out of how many billions?
I despise the Atlantic's left wing agenda. However, this is a good scientific article based on science and not philosophy.
Some cases are. Some evidently are genetic.
I think it’s rather wonderful, that I carry my mother’s cells within me, and the cells of all my children.
I can’t feel them, but they are there, and maybe I am changed by them, the way transplant recipients are sometimes changed.
A colony of many, eight trace padsengers.
I wonder if grandmother cells ever make the trip, from mother to daughter to child.
I, for one, welcome our new chimera overlords.
Yet she is actually bowing to biology, affirming male and female as biological, while invoking pregnancy as a reason for genderfluidity is contrary to children being so.
IIRC, there was an article posted on FR about a mother’s heart (?) repaired by the stem cells from her baby during pregnancy.
I cannot find the article now. I might not have remembered the story correctly. If anyone knows more, please post.
I’d love to have a new thyroid, but not at the cost of anyone dying in the womb.
That’s where this is headed, pluripotent stem cells from tissue matched fetuses to regrow/supplement any organ.
Count me out.
Parents go to great lengths to ensure the health and well-being of their developing offspring. The favor, however, may not always be returned.An illustration shows that fetal cells may have an influence on a mother’s body.
Dramatic research has shown that during pregnancy, cells of the fetus often migrate through the placenta, taking up residence in many areas of the mother’s body, where their influence may benefit or undermine maternal health.
The presence of fetal cells in maternal tissue is known as fetal microchimerism. The term alludes to the chimeras of ancient Greek myth — composite creatures built from different animal parts, like the goat-lion-serpent depicted in an Etruscan bronze sculpture.
According to Amy Boddy, a researcher at Arizona State University’s Department of Psychology and lead author of a new study, chimeras exist. Indeed, many humans bear chimerical traits in the form of foreign cells from parents, siblings or offspring, acquired during pregnancy.
“Fetal cells can act as stem cells and develop into epithelial cells, specialized heart cells, liver cells and so forth. This shows that they are very dynamic and play a huge role in the maternal body. They can even migrate to the brain and differentiate into neurons,” Boddy said. “We are all chimeras.”
Fellow ASU researchers Angelo Fortunato, Melissa Wilson Sayres and Athena Aktipis joined Boddy for the new study. Fortunato is with the Biodesign Institute’s Human and Comparative Genomics Lab. Wilson Sayres and Aktipis — both with Biodesign’s Center for Evolution and Medicine — are also researchers with ASU’s School of Life Sciences and Department of Psychology, respectively.
Mother’s little helpers?
Although fetal microchimerism is a common occurrence across placental mammals (including humans), the effects of such cells on maternal health remain a topic of fierce debate in the biological community.
In research appearing in the advanced online edition of the journal Bioessays, Boddy and her colleagues review the available literature on fetal microchimerism and human health, applying an evolutionary framework to predict when fetal cells are inclined to act cooperatively to enhance maternal health and when their behavior is likely to be competitive, occasionally leading to adverse effects on the mother.
Fetal cells may do more than simply migrate to maternal tissues.
The authors suggest they can act as a sort of placenta outside the womb, redirecting essential assets from the maternal body to the developing fetus. Cells derived from the fetus — which can persist in maternal tissues for decades after a child is born — have been associated with both protection and increased susceptibility to a range of afflictions, including cancer and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.
But, as co-author Wilson Sayres, cautions, “it’s not only a tug of war between maternal and fetal interests. There is also a mutual desire for the maternal system to survive and provide nutrients and for the fetal system to survive and pass on DNA.”
All grandmother’s carry their the cells of their daughters children
You are correct-it is the result of sexual abuse/seduction of a child near/at the onset of puberty by an older teen or adult same-sex person-usually a relative or friend/sibling of a friend. That is why savvy parents teach their kids about the danger of inappropriate touching by others at an early age, so that they will inform the parent if the situation happens. Too many parents do not want to know that even young relatives and friends can have mental problems like same-sex attractions, violent tendencies, etc...
No-they are not-there is no documented, provable scientific evidence of homosexual tendencies being genetic/inherited. As a case manager, I’ve had homosexual/lesbian clients-as well as acquaintances and a couple of relatives who were gay or bi. Every one of those people recalled an older relative or friend inappropriately touching/initiating sexual contact with them-usually at around/slightly before the age of puberty-about 9 to 12 or so. Male children who were sexually abused were sometimes feminized by a possessive mother who also trusted sketchy relatives/friends alone with her kid.
If they were ashamed/scared to tell anyone, the sexual abuse continued, and the pattern was set. If they told a parent, or someone who told a parent, and went to a therapist, the issue was treated like the childhood trauma that it is and the kid can develop heterosexual desires like nature intended...
That is just my experience and my dos centavos-you are entitled to any opinion you choose...
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