They Keep Piling On Us!

It seems like every time we turn around...

• They want to require television show to be labeled “trans” if they have any “trans” characters or plots.
• Trump wants to have us labeled as terrorist.
• Trump has stripped us of our life savings healthcare.

Now substitute Black people for trans people.

• They want to require television show to be labeled “Black” if they have any “Black” characters or plots.
• Trump wants to have “Blacks” labeled as terrorist.
• Trump has stripped us of our life savings healthcare.

Do you think that would be allowed? Why is it okay for us to be discriminated against?

There are two mindsets about us: conservatives think we choose to be trans, while liberals know we are born this way. If you look at nature, you will see trans identity everywhere! But we were censored in the animal world along with the human world. Primatologists and anthropologists reported it in their notes, but it never made it to the public back in the 1950s—the era of the "Lavender Scare."

Integrative and Comparative Biology (ICB) writes in Joan Roughgarden’s Evolution’s Rainbow, a book review by Josephine Low that, 

In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin described life as “endless forms most beautiful.” The field of biology is defined by the pursuit of universal explanations for these infinite possibilities. Despite the enduring desire for objectivity, what scientists choose to study and their interpretation is shaped by cultural norms. Paradoxically, popular culture looks to science to affirm what is “natural” and therefore right, creating a feedback loop which distorts our perception of the natural world and humanity’s place in it.

If enforcing a singular perspective on an infinite world unjustly flattens the world, embracing a multitude of perspectives is the best way to understand an infinite world. To borrow the language of renowned ecologist and evolutionary biologist Joan Roughgarden, we need to learn to see nature’s rainbow.

But that is exactly what the Republicans want to do when they pass laws stating that there are only two genders! The National Institutes of Health website, PubMed, reports in Genetic and Environmental Contributions To Gender Diversity: A Systematic Review of the Twin Literature. The introduction reads, in part:

The aetiological basis for gender diversity remains unknown. However, similar to other complex human traits (Polderman et al. 2015), the prevailing theory is that a complex interaction between genes and the environment collectively contribute to the formation of gender identity (Coleman et al. 2022). Studies using a classic twin study design have assessed the validity of this hypothesis by comparing rates of concordance for a transgender and other gender diverse (hereafter, trans) identity in monozygotic (MZ, identical) and dizygotic (DZ, non-identical) twins (Polderman et al. 2018) (see Table 1 for glossary of relevant terms). Since MZ twins share 100% of their DNA, compared to 50% on average in DZ twins, twin studies offer a powerful opportunity to examine questions about the heritable contribution to gender identity. In addition, using univariate models, twin data can also facilitate assessment of the relative contributions of environmental factors shared between each twin pair (e.g. intrauterine and family environment) and non-shared environmental factors (e.g. unique life experiences) (Neale and Cardon 1992).

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Conclusion

This review of the twin literature suggests that there is likely both heritable and non-shared environmental contributions to gender diversity, but the magnitude of these contributions remains undefined and further research is needed to help clarify this.

But the Republicans still think it is a choice! That one day we sit down and think, "Gee, I want to be trans so I can be beaten up and discriminated against!"

The Guardian reported on:

'Sexual depravity' of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal

Landmark polar research about the Adélie penguin's sex life by Captain Scott's expedition, deemed too shocking for the public 100 years ago, is unearthed at the Natural History Museum

The Guardian

Robin McKie, science editor

Sat 9 Jun 2012

It was the sight of a young male Adélie penguin attempting to have sex with a dead female that particularly unnerved George Murray Levick, a scientist with the 1910-13 Scott Antarctic Expedition. No such observation had ever been recorded before, as far as he knew, and Levick, a typical Edwardian Englishman, was horrified. Blizzards and freezing cold were one thing. Penguin perversion was another.

Worse was to come, however. Levick spent the Antarctic summer of 1911-12 observing the colony of Adélies at Cape Adare, making him the only scientist to this day to have studied an entire breeding cycle there. During that time, he witnessed males having sex with other males and also with dead females, including several that had died the previous year. He also saw them sexually coerce females and chicks and occasionally kill them.

Levick blamed this "astonishing depravity" on "hooligan males" and wrote down his observations in Greek so that only an educated gentleman would understand the horrors he had witnessed. Back in Britain he produced a paper (in English), titled Natural History of the Adélie Penguin. However, the section about the animal's sexual proclivities was deemed to be so shocking it was removed to preserve decency. Levick then used this material as the basis for a separate short paper, Sexual Habits of the Adélie Penguin, which was privately circulated among a handful of experts.

As a result of that self-censorship, we are demonized! Maybe if they had publicized that being LGBTQ+ is part of the natural process of life back then, LGBTQ+ people would not be persecuted now. Maybe if they taught that in school, we wouldn’t have the hate we have now. And now, once again, they are banning anything LGBTQ+ in schools! What is that teaching the students? What else have scientists hidden from us?

I have always said that Mother Nature loves to experiment. So when you pass laws saying that there are only two genders, you are going against Mother Nature—and she doesn’t like that!

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Another factor showing that being LGBTQ+ is an inborn trait rather than a choice is statistics!

I’m "sinister"—or left-handed, as they used to call us! We were called witches and burned at the stake. Nuns would whack your hand until it was black and blue and belittle you in front of the class for smudging the ink. According to BBC News:

Approximately 10% to 12% of the world's population is left-handed. While estimates can range from 8% to 15% depending on the study and cultural factors, the 10% figure is the most commonly cited. This ratio has remained remarkably stable for over 5,000 years, with a higher prevalence in males than females

But here is a fact they don’t teach you in school. Psychology Today writes that if you are LGBTQ+, you have a higher chance of being left-handed: 

According to Kenneth Zucker*, a researcher at the University of Toronto's Center for Addiction and Mental Health, homosexuals are more likely to be lefties than heterosexuals. Zucker analyzed data collected in 20 different studies over the past 50 years and discovered a correlation between left-handedness and homosexuality. The findings indicate that lesbians have a 91 percent greater chance of being left-handed or ambidextrous than straight women, while gay men are 34 percent more likely than straight men to not be right-handed. While Zucker says the research provides empirical evidence that links homosexuality to left-handedness, he also adds that "we don't have a definitive answer as to why the relationship exists."

*Hey, I know! Ken Zucker S**ks!

In another PubMed article they write,

Abstract

Handedness preference was assessed in 205 boys with gender identity disorder and 205 clinical control boys referred for other reasons. Boys with gender identity disorder were significantly more likely to be left-handed than the clinical control boys (19.5% vs. 8.3%, respectively). The boys with gender identity disorder, but not the clinical control boys, also had a significantly higher rate of left-handedness compared to three independent, general population studies of nonreferred boys (11.8%; N = 14,253) by Hardyck, Goldman, and Petrinovich (1975), Calnan and Richardson (1976), and Eaton, Chipperfield, Ritchot, and Kostiuk (1996). Left-handedness appears to be a behavioral marker of an underlying neurobiological process associated with gender identity disorder in boys.

Hey! To all you people who think being trans is a choice: is being left-handed a prerequisite for "choosing" to be trans?

Wait, that’s not all. In Nature Communications, the article “Elevated rates of autism, other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric diagnoses, and autistic traits in transgender and gender-diverse individuals” reports:

In conclusion, our study demonstrates that transgender and gender-diverse individuals have elevated rates of autism diagnosis, related neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions, and autistic traits compared to cisgender individuals. This study has clinical implications by highlighting that we need to improve access to care and tailored support for this under-served population.

Can you imagine Republicans passing laws like the ones they are passing against us on any other protected class? Why are they allowed to discriminate against us? They justify their pogrom against the trans community with their lies.

The same institutions that tried to "beat the left-handedness out of people" in the past are often the ones trying to "legislate the trans identity out of people" today.

We will not be erased!