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Keith, you said:
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.
I've known quite a few gays, and
I've never had a problem around having them near my children. They did not
try to influence them to become gay, nor did any of my children become
gay. They simply knew the gay singles or couples as friends of ours.
I knew gays when I was a child as
"just a couple of batchelors living down the road". Knowing them had no
influence on me because, having had four kids, it would seem I was
straight.
Incidentally, some of the gays I
know were well adjusted and very competent. They would have been even
better adjusted had they not had to face criticism and discrimination from the
poorly adjusted straights that worked alongside them or as their
superiors.
Ed
P.S. Not all of the experiences
I've had with the other sex and with raising children have been wonderfully
joyful.
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Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:32
AM
Subject: Re: [Futurework] More
hardwiring.
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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