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Posted on 12/17/2016 9:50:35 PM PST by ErikJohnsky
The January 2017 issue of National Geographic features a major first in the the storied 128-year-old publication’s history — for the first time ever, the cover features a transgender individual.
The special “Gender Revolution” issue features interviews with more than 80 transgender and gender-expansive youth across the globe.
And most notable of all, the person who had the honor of being on the cover is 9-year-old transgender girl Avery Jackson of Kansas City, Mo.
On the cover, Avery is quoted as saying, “The best thing about being a girl is, now I don’t have to pretend to be a boy.”
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
I find it interesting that the mother found out that her three year old son was wearing princess dresses at day care.
The physical body is a manifestation of the soul that gives it life. There are many issues that can cause this shift in physiological identity from gender identity.
National Geographic has now given terrorists a great excuse to attack any embassy they want and kill officials.
“The parents should be charged with child abuse.”
I 100% agree. (And the mother needs psychiatric help.)
Dime to a dollar the mother wears the pants in the family.”
I take back what I said after listening to the mother speak on the You Tube video. The family is a conservative Southern Baptist Republican family who was very troubled by the son being feminine. The mother was exasperated and sought out help immediately.
Psychological identity is a function of which aspect of consciousness in the soul is dominant, irregardless of gender. I’m not judging the individual, just seek to understand the situation.
In my research I have found many factors influencing/causing gender identification issues. These include:
Mother was very angry at the father while pregnant with the child. (A child in the womb cannot differentiate between their own experiences and the mother’s experiences)
Mother had gender identity issues of her own and they conveyed to the developing child (this is most common)
Twins were developing and the soul of one child who’s physical body died, attached to the surviving twin.
Pure and simple soul attachment where an existing human soul of the opposite gender and without a physical body attaches to a young child and the dominant personality of the attachment influences the child.
Every situation is different depending upon the facts and circumstances of that specific soul’s experiences and biological basis.
The research on sex determination is still in its infancy... Here is a summary of the basics from Wiki:
Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) is a type of environmental sex determination in which the temperatures experienced during embryonic development determine the sex of the offspring. It is most prevalent and common among amniote vertebrates that are classified under the reptile class.
TSD differs from the chromosomal sex-determination systems common among vertebrates. It is a type of environmental sex determination (ESD); in other ESD systems, some factors such as population determine the sex of organisms (see Polyphenism).
TSD was also thought to occur in some megapodes, such as the Australian brushturkey; however, their offspring sex ratios appear to result from temperature-dependent embryo mortality rather than from TSD.
The eggs are affected by the temperature at which they are incubated during the middle one-third of embryonic development. This critical period of incubation is known as the thermosensitive period (TSP). The specific time of sex-commitment is known due to several authors resolving histological chronology of sex differentiation in the gonads of turtles with TSD.
The topic of “Epigenetics” is interesting enough, but when it enters into epigenetic reproduction influences... Just amazing...WOW.
For the scientist with an inquiring mind:
Hormones in Temperature-dependent Sex Dtermination systems
Synergism between temperature and hormones has also been identified in these systems. Administering estradiol at male-producing temperatures generates females that are physiologically identical to temperature-produced females.
The reverse experiment, males produced at female temperatures, only occurs when a nonaromatizable testosterone or an aromatase inhibitor is administered, indicating that the enzyme responsible for conversion of testosterone to estradiol, aromatase, plays a role in female development.
Nonetheless, the mechanisms for TSD are still relatively unknown, but in some ways, TSD resembles genetic sex determination (GSD), particularly in regards to the effects of aromatase in each process. In some fish species, aromatase is in both the ovaries of female organisms who underwent TSD and those who underwent GSD, with no less than 85% of the coding sequences of each aromatase being identical, showing that aromatase is not unique to TSD and suggesting that there must be another factor in addition to it that is also affecting TSD.
Interestingly, hormones and temperature show signs of acting in the same pathway, in that less hormone is required to produce a sexual shift as the incubation conditions near the pivotal temperature. It has been proposed that temperature acts on genes coding for such steroidogenic enzymes, and testing of homologous GSD pathways has provided a genic starting point. Yet, the genetic sexual determination pathway in TSD turtles is poorly understood and the controlling mechanism for male or female commitment has not been identified.
While sex hormones have been observed to be influenced by temperature, thus potentially altering sexual phenotypes, specific genes in the gonadal differentiation pathway display temperature influenced expression. In some species such important sex-determining genes as DMRT1 and those involved in the Wnt signalling pathway could potentially be implicated as genes which provide a mechanism (opening the door for selective forces) for the evolutionary development of TSD.
While aromatase is involved in more processes than only TSD, it has also been shown to play a role in certain tumor development.
As more male bass switch sex, a strange fish story expands
In the latest study, smallmouth bass and white sucker fish captured at 16 sites in the Delaware, Ohio and Susquehanna rivers in Pennsylvania had crossed over into a category called intersex, an organism with two genders.
“I did not expect to find it quite as widespread,” said Blazer, a U.S. Geological Survey biologist who studies fish. Since 2003, USGS scientists have discovered male smallmouth and largemouth bass with immature eggs in several areas of the Potomac River, including near the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant in the District.
The previous studies detected abnormal levels of compounds from chemicals such as herbicides and veterinary pharmaceuticals from farms, and from sewage system overflows near smallmouth-bass nesting areas in the Potomac.
Those endocrine-disrupting chemicals throw off functions that regulate hormones and the reproductive system. In the newest findings, at one polluted site in the Susquehanna near Hershey, Pa., 100 percent of male smallmouth bass that were sampled had eggs, Blazer said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-more-male-bass-switch-sex-a-strange-fish-story-expands/2014/08/03/89799b08-11ad-11e4-8936-26932bcfd6ed_story.html?utm_term=.c5fae56a6058
In some fish species, aromatase is in both the ovaries of female organisms who underwent TSD and those who underwent GSD, with no less than 85% of the coding sequences of each aromatase being identical, showing that aromatase is not unique to TSD and suggesting that there must be another factor in addition to it that is also affecting TSD.
Reference:
Reproductive health indicators of fishes from Pennsylvania watersheds: association with chemicals of emerging concern (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment October 2014, Volume 186, Issue 10, pp 6471–6491)
Biological findings were compared with chemical analyses of discrete water samples collected at the time of fish collections. Estrone concentrations correlated with testicular oocytes prevalence and severity and with the percentage of male bass with vitellogenin. No correlations were noted with the percentage of male sucker with vitellogenin and water chemical concentrations. The prevalence and severity of testicular oocytes in bass also correlated with the percent of agricultural land use in the watershed above a site. Two sites within the Susquehanna drainage and one in the Delaware were immediately downstream of wastewater treatment plants to compare results with upstream fish. The percentage of male bass with testicular oocytes was not consistently higher downstream; however, severity did tend to increase downstream.
I once worked with a post-graduate Psychology student. One of his cases was a trans-gendered person. This person's "problem"? He thought he'd made a mistake!
The year? 1973.
This is child abuse.
I have this screwed up friend, who used to whine to me that she wished her daughter was gay, because gay people are so much more interesting.
Perhaps the stupidest thing I have ever heard another person say, and I have heard a person say “Let’s cross the river up here so we can walk back down and see the waterfall from the other side”. Oh, wait a minute, that was me!
“also, why can’t any of these companies, like ESPN, Target, and now NatGeo stay out of politics?”
I judging an engineering college senior project design review. The winning project would get enough money to make their design. The losers were supposed to help the winners. There were three groups. Two groups of blacks (self selected) and a group of whites and Asians. The last group was clearly the winner. While we were discussing the award, suddenly, one of the professors lighted up with a smile and he actually got goosebumps on his neck and forearms. He gushed, “I know, why don’t we declare them all winners?” I think that was the PC thing because they were all concerned about the racial implications of declaring a white/Asian group the winner.
That emotional outburst of political correctness is how I thing the CEO of Target felt when he had the idea about the transsexual bathrooms. It must be how other liberals in positions of power at magazines feel when they suddenly have this awesome idea on how to show the world how liberals behave. Liberalism is about feelings, not logic.
When you actually witness this from arm’s length it is scary and thought provoking.
Whenever, I open an article like this and it says “trans girl”, I am never sure what precisely that means. Does it mean, a boy who is dressed like a girl or a girl dressed like a boy?
Cultural Marxism is in its home stretch of its Long March to destroy western culture and remake it in its own image.
It is even worse in Europe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA8fgaBSDUw
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Next time the Mongol Horde invades, they’ll make it to the Channel in no time flat.
Another great magazine down the tubes because of liberals. I read National Geography when I was a boy. I have DVDs of the whole thing, but I’m not going to support NatGeo ever again.
What’s next? Will the February 2017 have Weekly World News’ Space Alien or Batboy on the cover?
I guess time will tell. And it will probably not have to be too long.
And....... Please cancel my subscription?
National Geographic hasn’t been worth picking up for twenty years;it changed into a preachy liberal rag way back.
Fifty years ago PLAYBOY did a spoof of Nat Geo with Nat Porn as the logo.
Imagine being a non-native speaker and trying to parse this nonsense.
With the concept of ‘gender fluid’, ‘trans girl’ could mean a boy who thinks they are a girl or an actual girl who presently thinks she is a girl, but could later think she was a boy.
Obviously this is vital stuff.
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