Author: shadowwarrior

If you are just now joining the reading of our blogs, you need to be aware that we are currently in a series of blogs dealing with trans issues. It is important to read these blogs in the order in which they were first presented in order to understand the scope of our research into this topic without establishing bias based on an issue for which the proper research foundation has not yet been laid. So, please go back and review all of our blogs on this issue beginning with the one we published on April 3, 2022. In our continued search for The Truth about all things surrounding the trans issue today, much of that which is ignored by choice or by avoiding study to learn more about it, we continue our blog about the whirlwind of talk leading to the TRANSPHOBIA mind set. Before we get into another deep dive into potential causes and effects of trans related issues, we thought it relevant to explore the vast range of behaviors found within the trans culture. We believe most of you are aware of this broad spectrum of actions but have never really correlated your observations into a conscious reality. Although these ranges in behavior happen to men and women alike, we are concentrating on those who are male.

Halloween. What a fun time of year to be anything you want to be, and it can be done without condemnation, or observer questions delving into motives or aspirations. How many men do you know, or those who you have witnessed, who dressed up as women on Halloween? For some men, to be able to dawn the slick silks, flowing wigs, high heel shoes, and to observe how one can be nearly instantaneously transformed into another sex, is both insightful and rewarding. But once the party is done and Halloween is past, the clothes and all the accoutrements are given back to your local thrift store, and all that really remains are the fading memories and maybe a picture or two of the events. Those men are quite happy to return to the world of manhood and would never in a thousand years consider delving more deeply into the art of crossdressing. On the very broad scale of trans behavior, these men would be on the far left of the spectrum. Consider this in relation to a “Bell Curve”, see the diagram below:

On the far left of the Bell Curve, the numbers who participate in this type of transformation are few. On the far right of the Bell Curve, are those who have taken the massive transformation to become as fully woman as possible through a process known as SRS (Sex Reassignment Surgery). The acronym GAS (Gender Affirmation Surgery) had been adopted, although many now do not like to say they went through “GAS”, so the newest and most accepted term is GCS (Gender Confirmation Surgery). Those who have gone through this process have dealt with Gender Dysphoria for years, hating who they were as men, detesting what was between their legs. Many have undergone plastic surgery to make visible features more feminine, like breast augmentation, facelifts, and even in some cases vocal cord surgery and the diminishing of the Adam’s Apple. Often, once this transformation is complete, these transwomen disappear into society, and for the most part, have completely divested themselves of their previous lives. Some are able to blend into society unnoticed, and a few are even able to make this transformation and retain their original jobs, livelihoods, and most friends. You probably drive or walk by these people every day without even noticing, and the last thing they want is to be singled out and identified as trans. These are the two extremes on our trans spectrum or Bell Curve. Between these two extremes are the vast majority of trans individuals.

On the left of the spectrum, those not satisfied enough with putting away their Halloween woman, will secretly dress up whenever they have the opportunity. They are the closeted crossdresser. One who dares not disclose their fetish for fear of rejection, or even the total destruction of the entire fabric of their lives up until the point of revelation, including family, financial, and social discrimination and banishment. They live in fear of exposure, often going through periods of what is called, “The Purge”, where they will feal as though they are bad, evil people, and for a time will discard any and everything pulling them into their perceived vial habit. Over time, a few months or even years, they recognize that the pull to disassociate from their fetish is unsustainable, and they revert once again to their closeted ways. These “Purges” can happen multiple times in these individuals’ lives. The stories these men tell are often identical, usually beginning at a very early age, experimenting with a sister’s or mother’s wardrobe in secret. They secretly wish they had never been born a boy. Some of these men make a break and risk all to more fully develop their inward persona by going out in public, or joining associations of like-minded individuals, sometimes, but rarely, are their families or wives onboard with this newfound public expression, and usually family life is shattered. Sometimes these individuals, being unable to bear the burden of these separations and rejections, commit suicide.

In the middle of this spectrum of trans folks we have been exploring, are the vast numbers of men who accepted who they are, have found a measure of solace and resignation to their situations. Some are content to spend a few hours a month, or days out of the year, being more feminine. But once their itch has been scratched, they are perfectly able and satisfied to go back into their macho world. These men we consider to be crossdressers, the center left on our Bell Curve. Some men are not satisfied with this periodic flip-flopping. They move into a more daily experience, living life as woman. They may take hormone treatments, have laser hair removal, and acquire their own personal feminine wardrobes and accoutrements. They expand their network of fellow transwomen and often share outings and a variety of venues. These men are not crossdressers, they are transwomen. These are on the center-right of our Bell Curve and are those who are transgendered.

For some, there remains a frustration and dissatisfaction with the physical body given them at birth. There is a strong desire to be more female than male, not just on the outside, but on the inside as well. However, multiple roadblocks often prevent further steps down the bell-curve slope to GCS. Usually, the main impediment is financial. One can spend $20,000 to $50,000 or more in making the final transformation. Some would even fly to overseas destinations to have the procedure done, where it was cheaper to do, including airfare and lodging. For most, the failure of insurance companies or businesses to fully fund these transformation surgeries prevents many transwomen from being who they believe themselves to be behaviorally. For some, money may not be the issue, but maybe age or health, as the GCS is extensive, sometimes requiring skin grafts and extensive daily follow-on care. To say it more bluntly, it is not like getting an oil change, out with the old and in with the new. This process requires checking the dipstick each and every day. It’s not a get it and forget it type of procedure. It requires commitment and dedication.

For the remainder of this blog, we would like to consider how others, maybe a wife, might glean some insight into those who share the vast numbers within our Bell Curve, whether they be crossdressers or transgendered. The information is taken from the book “Crossdressers: And Those Who Share Their Lives” (Peggy J. Rudd, Ed.D.), written by the wife of a crossdresser, published in 1995. As we did when reviewing the previous book on the subject, it is important to note that this book lists 8 Resources, and the Bibliography lists 21 sources. It is obviously well researched and written from personal experience. Following is a compilation of excerpts from this short book dealing with crossdressing:

“The choice to accept or reject my husband was affected by perceptions, previous thought patterns, and my own present level of knowledge, but I made a deliberate choice to move beyond these factors and into the realm of compassion and empathy. Soon I came to realize that my husband had not chosen crossdressing either, and he also felt pain. Part of what I had to overcome related to semantics. At that time my husband referred to himself as a transvestite which, unfortunately, was the word of choice for most journalists who sensationalized the stories about persons who rob banks and commit sex crimes while crossdressed. The press made little mention of the thousands of persons who crossdress for emotional satisfaction. Negative journalism set the stage for my own initial misunderstanding. Soon I came to see another side; I came to believe that crossdressers are a group of people who deserve respect and understanding.” “Simply stated, the clothes worn by crossdressers are an outward manifestation of an inward feeling.” “It seems evident that a great amount of misunderstanding has resulted because some people look no further than observing the outer activity and fail to look into the hearts and emotions of the crossdressers. People who love crossdressers frequently ask, ‘Why is he doing this to me?’ The answer to this question can be found within the motivation, the nature of the individual, and the personal needs. Perhaps the more accurate questions could be asked by the crossdresser. ‘Why am I as I am? Why am I so different?” “Some [crossdressers] feel guilty because society has placed crossdressers into stereotypes, including the incorrect assumption that all crossdressers are gay. Most crossdressers want to share their life with a woman, and the number of gay males is far less among crossdressers than among the general population. There is a tendency to hide because the behavior of crossdressers may deviate from social norms in the area of gender expression.” “Is there really cause for fear and paranoia? Many crossdressers seem to think so. Some have experienced rejection by others or they fear such rejection. There is also the fear of detrimental effects upon other family members. There are documented accounts of crossdressers who have lost their jobs when the ‘secret’ got out. Thus, the fears are well grounded, and have prompted other questions such as, ‘How will my neighbors react if they find out? What will my children think when they discover this part of me? Will I be criticized, ridiculed, or suffer some other form of verbal abuse? Will people think I am mentally ill? What if they think I am a homosexual? Will my family suffer a loss of social standing? Will I be arrested for using the ladies rest room?'” “Fear is not the only emotion keeping crossdressers hidden. Many have feelings of guilt. Initially, crossdressers do not understand the feminine feelings within themselves and tend to mask these feelings with behaviors characterized by macho.” “. . . the dominant judge and jury is frequently found from others rather than from within the individual.” “Crossdressers are some of the most misunderstood minorities. For years people have had trouble accepting gender variants. Most critics believe crossdressing is an action of preference rather than an inborn trait. In reality crossdressing is an innate quality of life as basic as being born left-handed or right-handed. Society may accept a let-handed man but has difficulty accepting a man who crossdresses.” “Compassion is freely given to people who have birth defects, and this is as it should be, but where is the compassion for people who cross gender lines? Society has been less than tolerant. Crossdressers face criticism rather than hugs. Observers should ask . . . ‘What would I do if I had been born this way’?” “For religions which view the universe from a monistic view point, cross gender behavior is but an affirmation of the essential continuity of all life and a natural expression of the spectrum of life. Religions such as animist, pantheist, and Hindu/Buddhist all embrace a monistic view of life. But religions which have a strongly transcendent view of the separation of the divine and creation such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam offer no formal place for cross gender behavior in their rituals.” (Rev. Kathryn Helms.) “On the ANGELA SHOW, a regional television talk show filmed in New Orleans, Michelle was asked if she ever felt like an actor when dressed like a woman, Her reply was very insightful. ‘Yes, we are all consummate actors, especially when dressed as men’.” “. . . many people perceive gender to be a set of social expectations. Perhaps even as small children we had preferences that were not in line with gender expectations, but most of us have moved through life doing what we are ‘supposed’ to do. Kaplan said this in a rather humorous way. ‘I like chocolate ice cream; but when I go fishing, I use worms because fish like worms.’ we bend our form to agree with the preferences of others. Then we file those imposed preferences in our minds until they become perceived to be a factual dictate.” “Traditionally, men are supposed to act, think and move like men, and any hint of the feminine is feared and soon becomes a catalyst for guilt and remorse.”

We hope this little review of just one group, crossdressers, along the wide trans spectrum, will help give a more thorough understanding of all those who wrestle with being misunderstood, vilified, and ostracized by many. Remember, FREEDOM and LIBERTY are not given by government, but by God, and his command was to love. It is possible to love a person and not like everything about them, and there is no litmus test in order to give or receive love.

The above picture is of the twins born as males on the outside, but oh so different on the inside. This blog is a continuation of a look at the book called “BECOMING NICOLE”. In our continued search for The Truth about why TRANSPHOBIA is so prevalent, we now continue with excerpts from the book which is a must read for anyone who values knowledge in order to make informed decisions. We trust our brief review of sections within this book will lead to a greater understanding of the trans issue in our world today, and hopefully an understanding and acceptance of these individuals trapped within their world created by forces beyond their control.

“The need to define ourselves as individuals is a peculiarly modern obsession, but the importance of personhood to self-definition had its beginnings in the Enlightenment.” “By the nineteenth century, urbanization, mechanization, and population growth meant the state needed to keep better track of all these individuals. Categorization and classification weren’t intellectual tools. They served the social, economic, and political status quo. Individuals have identities, but identities can be arranged systematically any way we want, by religion, by class, by trade, by sex, making it easier for the government to control its citizens.”

Included within the book’s story, are what the writer labeled as “gender frauds”, where confusion reigned supreme in sports. Nazi officials forced Hermann Ratjen to compete as Dora Ratjen in the 1936 Olympics. Genetic testing was instituted in 1968, but in 1996, eight women tested positive for the presence of male chromosomes, but it was determined they suffered from a condition known as androgen insensitivity syndrome, where babies are “. . . born with normal-looking female genitals, but with undescended or partially descended testes, a short vagina (or none at all), and sometimes no cervix. The gender test confusion was enough to force the IOC to stop gender testing three years later. The bottom line: No one test could confirm that someone was 100 percent male or 100 percent female.” While we disagree with conclusions drawn by some scientists, we must report that the IOC in 2004, and the NCAA in 2011 amended rules and bylaws allowing the participation of transgendered women when having complied with their new guidelines. Our explanation of why we disagree was mentioned in a previous blog. “Doctors and scientists agree that after a year either on female hormones or male hormone suppressants, any competitive advantage a transgender athlete might have had initially is gone. In fact, because a woman’s ovaries also produce a small amount of testosterone, transgender females (who typically do not have ovaries) may have even less testosterone in their bodies than the average woman born with female reproductive organs.”

“In 2007 . . . there was basically only one endocrinologist in the United States who specialized in the medical care and treatment of transgender children . . .” It’s easy to recognize The Truth that our Nation was way behind in looking into the reasons for, and the care of, transgendered children. The next several paragraphs are a bit more technical, so please read slowly and carefully.

“The Transgender Brain. Scientists studying gender have recently been able to build upon the burgeoning research into the genetic and neurophysiological underpinnings of homosexuality. Researchers have found, for instance, that a son born to a woman who undergoes stress early in her pregnancy is more likely to grow up being gay than a son born to a non-stressed mother. The reason: Stressed pregnant mothers release a hormone called androstenedione, which mimics testosterone but is, in fact, much weaker. This stress hormone disrupts the timing and amount of the release of testosterone into the fetal brain, which, in turn, interferes with the development of the part of the brain linked to sexual orientation. But where is the physiological evidence for being transgender? Beginning in the mid-1990s, multiple studies looked at the brains of transgender individuals’ postmortem and when researchers compared brain anatomy between males and females, they found a profound difference where the amygdala, the brain’s emotional center, begins to send projections into the hypothalamus, the source of many of the body’s essential hormones. This area, called the central region of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, or BNST, is responsible for, among other things, sex and anxiety responses. On average it is twice the size in males as in females. Likewise, the BNST in the brains of transgender females – individuals with male external anatomy, but who have lifelong female gender identification – look exactly like the BNST in the brains of those with female genitalia and reproductive organs, that is, smaller than a man’s. Interestingly, these differences hold whether the individual has undergone sex reassignment surgery, hormonal treatment, both, or neither.” “In 2008, Australian researchers discovered a genetic variation in transgender women: Their receptor gene for the male sex hormone testosterone was longer than in gender-conforming males and appeared to be less efficient at signaling the uptake of male hormones in utero, resulting in a more ‘feminized’ brain. The number and size of neurons in the hypothalamus of male-to-female transgender adults is similar to females, and the number and size of hypothalamic neurons in female-to-male transgender adults is similar to males. The size and the deep brain structure called the putamen, which forms part of the basal ganglia, is also different in transgender individuals, corresponding to a person’s gender identity, not biological or sexual status.”

“The relatively new field of epigenetics looks at the external modifications to DNA that turn certain genes ‘on’ or ‘off.’ Researchers in epigenetics seek to explain the no-man’s-land between nature and nurture where environment influences a person’s genetic makeup. This happens when changes in the environment trigger some genes to activate and others to deactivate. Identical twins may have the exact same DNA, but not the exact same molecular switches. Those switches often depend not only on environmental influences outside the womb – what the mother does, how she feels, what she eats, drinks, or smokes – but inside the womb as well. Identical twins, developing from a single egg, usually share the same placenta, but each fetus floats in its own amniotic sac and each has its own umbilical cord. Scientists have found that fetal position in the womb can cause differing amounts of hormones to reach each developing embryo. Every molecule affects every other molecule, and even in close proximity to each other, identical twins will be affected differently, which is why they also have unique fingerprints. Even after birth, gender identity may not be completely set in stone. In March 2015, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine reported they were able to change the gender behavior of newborn female rats simply by injecting a form of testosterone into the preoptic area of the hypothalamus. Despite being a week old, the female rat brains were masculinized by this testosterone derivative, and the females displayed sexual behavior typical of male rats. Physically the rats were female, but their reproductive behavior was male-like. The scientists believe that injections of the testosterone-like substance triggered a mechanism by which certain virilization genes in the brain that had been deactivated in utero were suddenly turned back on. Unquestionably, there are multiple factors that affect gender identity, from the biological to the sociological, and while there are still many questions to be answered, what we know now is that the interaction of genes with prenatal exposure to hormones in the second half of pregnancy affects brain development in such a way that it significantly influences gender identification. Recognizing that the sexual differentiation of a fetus’s brain happens later in pregnancy than genital differentiation and that both are complex biological processes, the fact that variations in gender identity exist should ultimately come as no surprise. If anything, these variations have reinforced the idea that gender identity itself is not a fixed target. Rather, it is only one ingredient of a person’s sense of self, and for some the sense of being male or female is simply not as central as it may be for others. Studies have shown that even those whose gender identity aligns with their birth sex vary in their levels of contentment with their gender identity. Gender variance, it seems, is the norm not the exception, and yet the binary view of male/female and the pathologizing of anything that doesn’t conform to these expectations is stubbornly entrenched.”

“In nature, gender is fluid, dynamic, and even interchangeable. Sex change, in fact, is a normal process in many fish species, including moray eels, gobies, and clown fish. In the hierarchy of a school of clown fish, the female occupies the top rank. When she dies, the most dominant male switches genders to take her place. When the sole male in a school of reef fish dies, the largest female begins acting more aggressive and within ten days produces sperm. In Tanzania, in a species of hyena, all the females have distinctly male-like external genitalia. There are intersex deer and male kangaroos with pouches. In 2015 researchers discovered that the males of a species of Australian lizard, called the central bearded dragon, change sex when the temperature rises, at which time they become super-fecund females. Like humans, the lizards have two sex chromosomes, Z and W. A male carries the ZZ chromosome, a female the ZW. But when male eggs are exposed to temperatures above eighty-nine degrees Fahrenheit, the ZZ male embryos grow up female. It’s important to remember that all this complexity of sexual reproduction among species is not an argument against sexual reproductive success, just further evidence of variation, which some scientists believe carries over to humans.”

Some of what follows is a repeat of what we have already addressed in a previous blog, but we include it here as further source evidence. “In India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh, millions belong to a transgender group known as hijra, which dates back at least four thousand years. According to ancient Asian myths, the hijra were accorded special powers that could confer luck and fertility on others. In Indonesia, the Bugis people believe there aren’t two or even three genders, but rather five: male, female, those who are physically male but take on the role of female, those who are physically female but take on the role of male, and those who take on the aspects of both male and female. Without all five genders represented in their culture, the Bugis believe the world would cease to exist. Gender is necessary, in other words, but not necessarily binary.”

In our next blog, we will consider the broad spectrum of gender variance, and focus in on just one segment of that continuum, those individuals who are considered to be “crossdressers”. In the conclusion of this current blog in search of The Truth about TRANSPHOBIA, we conclude with this statement made near the end of the book we have been reviewing. “The philosopher Charles Taylor once wrote: Each of us has an original way of being human: Each person has his or her own ‘measure.’ . . . There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else’s life. But this gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.” As we have emphasized before, we again do now. Each individual’s FREEDOM and LIBERTY applies equally to all, and if not, those words really apply to no one, and are just simple, flowery words, that hold no substantial value.

We don’t normally hype any particular source of material during our blogs. However, this is a special case, because we intend to reprint selected parts of this source material to help clarify The Truth relating to its implications surrounding TRANSPHOBIA. Lest you think this reading is just one person’s opinion of The Truth, we want to point out that at the close of this book there is a bibliography listing the sources used to bring this true-life story to the written page. There are 38 references listed! In addition, the author states: “Much of the material for this book was drawn from hundreds of hours of interview with the . . . family, doctors, lawyers, . . . school counselor, and others. The research also included extensive personal papers, journals, medical records, court depositions, photographs and videos, and an unpublished memoir . . ., all courtesy of the . . . family. Some of the events in this book also were witnessed firsthand by the author.” The author “ . . . spent almost 4 years reporting this immersive account . . . “. In addition, the author lists 28 resources, including suicide prevention, equality advocates, legal help, and youth and family organizations. The author also lists 16 definitions in the glossary to better inform the uneducated in the trans arena. So, why do we rely so heavily on this one publication? We think the answer is quite clear. At FREEDOMGOFORTH.COM, we spend an inordinate amount of time researching each and every blog we post. While your 7 minutes spent reading one of our typical blogs of 1400 to 2000 words, we will spend on average two to four hours in research for each minute you read. In the case of TRANSPHOBIA, since this area of discussion is so broad in its implications, and vast in the amount of available source material, it was extremely beneficial to provide to you this short read, what it took one author 4 years to write. Only a full read of this book can bring the story of Nicole and her family into proper focus, and we encourage all to spend the time to do so, as this is one powerful way, among many, to stop the spread of TRANSPHOBIA and bring The Truth to enlighten the uninformed. We trust the selected excerpts from this book, the “CliffsNotes” if you will, will be most valuable in this pursuit.

“When Oprah asked Boylan (Jennifer Finney Boylan, an English professor at Colby college in Maine, and a transgendered woman) about the origin of her condition, she said, ‘No one really knows. I think there has to be a medical component. It’s something you have from the age of two or three. Some people think that it has to do with the secretion of hormones in the mother’s womb around the sixth week of pregnancy’.”

“If there is no one place in the brain that provides a sense of self, then perhaps there’s no one place in the brain that provides us with a picture of that sense of self. After all, the feeling we have of being a body arises from several disparate places in the brain. There are a hundred million cells in the eye responsible for picking up visual information from the world, but they are connected to just a million neurons, the cells responsible for signaling the brain about what is being seen. In other words, the brain discards more visual information than it lets in. Which means the message from perception is constantly being massaged. There is no simple act of perception. What there is, is expectation. Coins appear larger to poor children than to those who are well off. Food-related words are clearer and appear brighter on the page to people who are hungry. Everything in our environment influences who we are and how we see ourselves – even our own bodies. Scientists have conducted experiments that show that people who deliberately take on classic poses of dominance and stand, for instance, with their legs apart and hands on their hips, even for just a few minutes, substantially increase their self-confidence. Ask someone to hunch over or curl up, and they will lose that confidence. What is the mirror image seen by children who believe themselves to be the other gender? The body tells a story, but the story can change what a body sees, and a body can change a person’s mind.”

“In the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, the national debate on transgender rights was still mostly sotto voce, and advocacy centered on legal documents.” “No one really knew how many people in the United States identified as transgender. Research was plentiful on lesbian, gay and bisexual people, but not on those identifying as transgender. In fact, getting someone to admit to being transgender, even anonymously, was extremely difficult, which made research nearly impossible.”

In the next paragraph the author gets somewhat technical. We ask the reader to consider this section carefully, as seeking out The Truth requires exploration in areas unfamiliar and often challenging.

“The Xs and Ys of Sex. Humans have long thought they could control the sex of a newborn or, at the very least, influence whether a baby would be born male or female. Ancient Romans believed if a pregnant woman carried the egg of a chicken close to her breast, she would give birth to a boy. Aristotle contended that conception on the day of a strong north wind would result in a male child, on the day of a strong south wind, a female. In the first century, Pliny the Elder listed a host of recipes to increase the odds of a woman bearing a male child: Either the man or the woman should drink three cups of water containing lakeweed seeds before the evening meal for forty consecutive nights prior to conception, or drink the juice from the male part of the parthenon plant mixed with raisin wine. Last, but certainly not least, the one sure method of giving birth to a boy: eating a rooster’s testicles. Not to be outdone, Greek physician Galen, in the second century, offered up the following suggestions: A woman could ensure the birth of a male child if, before sexual intercourse, she bound her right foot with a child’s white ribbon. A man could ensure the same if he engaged in intercourse while lying on his right side. Even a prank could influence the sex of a child if, unbeknownst to the pregnant woman, someone placed parsley on her head. Her baby’s sex would then be determined by the sex of whomever she next addressed. Hippocrates’s solution, perhaps was simplest, if also the most painful: binding of the right testicle for the birth of a girl; binding of the left testicle for a boy. There is no shortage of only slightly more sophisticated theories today. For example, because X-chromosome-carrying sperm, which will produce a girl, swim slower and live longer than Y-carrying sperm, the odds of having a daughter are thought to increase if intercourse takes place several days before ovulation, giving male sperm more time to die off. What we know for sure is that we all begin life essentially genderless, at least in terms of sexual anatomy. The last of our twenty-three pairs of chromosomes makes us either genetic males (XY) or genetic females (XX), but there are at least fifty genes that play a part in sexual identity development and are expressed at different levels early on. Sexual anatomy, however, is determined in large part by hormones. All of us begin, in utero, with an opening next to the anus and a kind of genital “bud.” The addition of testosterone drives the fetus in the male direction, with the “bud” developing into a penis and the tissue around the hole fusing and forming the scrotum. (This accounts for the “seam” over the scrotum and up the penis.) An inhibiting hormone prevents males from developing internal female reproductive organs. Without testosterone, the embryo develops in the female direction: the opening becomes the vagina and the labia, the bud the clitoris. Sexual differentiation of the genitals happens at about six weeks, but the sexual differentiation of the brain, including gender identity and the setting of our gender behavior, is, at least partly, a distinct process. Again, hormones play the crucial role, with surges of testosterone indirectly “masculinizing” the brains of some fetuses, causing subtle but distinct differences in brain structure and functional activity. For instance, the straight gyrus, a narrow strip that runs along the midline on the undersurface of the frontal lobe, is about 10 percent larger in women than men. The straight gyrus, scientists have found, is highly correlated with social cognition – that is, interpersonal awareness. These same scientists, however, caution that differences in biological sex are not necessarily hardwired or absolute. In adults, they found that regardless of biological sex, the larger the straight gyrus the more “feminine” the behavior. For most males, the action of male hormones on the brain is crucial to the development of male gender identity. A mutation of an androgen receptor on the X chromosome can cause androgen insensitivity syndrome, in which virilization of the brain fails, and when it does, a baby will be born chromosomally male (XY) and have testes rather than ovaries, but also a short vagina, and the child’s outward appearance will be female. Its gender identity is nearly always female as well. In other words, our genitals and our gender identity are not the same. Sexual anatomy and gender identity are the products of two different processes, occurring at distinctly different times and along different neural pathways before we are even born. Both are functions of genes as well as hormones, and while sexual anatomy and gender identity usually match, there are dozens of biological events that can affect the outcome of the latter and cause an incongruence between the two. In some ways, the brain and the body are two very different aspects of what it means to be human, especially when it comes to sex and gender. Who we are, male or female, is a brain process, but what we look like at birth, what we develop into at puberty, who we are attracted to and how we act – male, female, or something in between – are all embedded in different groups of brain cells with different patterns of growth and activity. Ultimately gender identity is the result of biological processes and is a function of the interplay between sex hormones and the developing brain, and because it is a process that takes place over time, in utero, it can be influenced by any number of environmental effects. Studying gender identity in the laboratory with animal models is virtually impossible. There is no way to know whether a male monkey feels like a male monkey. There is no experimental model of the transgender person; there is no lab protocol; no double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trials. There are just human beings, each of us understanding, often without thinking about it, who we are, male, female, or something in between. The permutations are myriad. Some individuals have the chromosomes of one gender but the sex organs of the opposite gender. Others are born with male genitals and testes, but internally have a womb and fallopian tubes. Still others have male genitals, small testes, and ovaries. Then there are cases like the pregnant woman in Australia who in 2021 discovered that though she was about to give birth to her third child, a large number of cells in her body identified her as chromosomally male. How could that be? The woman was herself likely the result of twin embryos – a boy and a girl – that merged in her mother’s womb. She was female according to her sex organs, but genetically she was female and male, a condition called chimerism. Some people have atypical chromosomal configurations, such as XXX or XXY or XYY, and still others may have different chromosomal arrangements in different tissues, a condition called mosaicism. Beyond chromosomes, any kind of mutation, or change, in the balance of hormones will tip the sexual development of the fetus toward one side or the other independently of what the chromosomes ‘say.’ Scientists have identified more than twenty-five genes that are involved in creating differences in sexual development. With the advancements in DNA sequencing, they are uncovering an enormous range of variation in these genes as well. For more than forty years, researchers were aware of widespread microchimerism, in which stem cells from a male fetus cross the placenta into the mother’s body and maternal stem cells cross over into the male fetus. But only recently have scientists discovered that those crossover cells can last a lifetime. No one thing determines sex; rather, it’s a system, and as with any system, small changes or interruptions can lead to nonbinary results, neither wholly male nor wholly female. As many as one in one hundred infants are born with sexual anatomy that differs in some way from standard male and female anatomy, according to Brown University gender researcher Anne Fausto-Sterling. In the past, those born with this condition were called hermaphrodites. Today, scientists estimate that about one in every two thousand infants is born with genitalia so noticeable atypical that an expert in sex differentiation is consulted. Historically, how doctors decided at birth which sex to assign to intersex infants was based less on biology than on cultural expectations and stereotypes. The most common instances of ambiguous genitalia are an enlarged clitoris for female babies and a microphallus for male babies. At some hospitals in the 1970s, the medical standard for assigning male gender was based chiefly on the length of the penis. A baby born with a penis smaller than 2.5 centimeters, the size generally required for a male to urinate standing up, was assigned female. Medical professionals, in these cases, felt uncomfortable about leaving an infant with ambiguous genitalia. Most therefore urged parents to decide on a sex for these babies immediately after birth, then hand the infants over to the surgeons to ‘correct’ the confusion.”

We are going to take a break from this week’s blog as there will be much more to review next week concerning the important information that can be gleaned from this book as we complete our review. We encourage the reader to continue to be faithful in the pursuit of FREEDOM and LIBERTY, and that requires all of us to seek The Truth, even if it sometimes challenges our pre-established beliefs.

The Truth about TRANSPHOBIA cannot be adequately addressed in just one blog. General consensus among those having minds trapped in the bubble of preconceived beliefs would simply put a period at the end of the word TRANSPHOBIA, and gladly admit, “Yes, I’m transphobic, and I stand proudly upon this as I know all I need to know, and I will fight your every effort to bring these abhorrent behaviors into accepted reality.” We hope following these last blogs on this subject, you will be more aware of this issue facing us today, and to be better able to deal with it in a rational, educated way. As of this writing, there remains so many unanswered questions as to why the “trans” issue is so prevalent. We believe it has been elevated to a state of awareness rivalling the gay and lesbian issues that were brought to the forefront in the Stonewall Riots (Uprising) on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in New York City. There is much debate about who actually started the riot, but what is not in dispute is that there were a variety of sexes, and their variants, including the transgendered, who frequented that facility. What is also evident is that from that riot, the gays and lesbians took center stage in the reforms over the following number of years. What had been predominately excluded from the movement were those who were transgendered. It wasn’t until years later when those who were transgendered began to gain a measure of recognition. But even as recently as in 2015, movements were afoot in the LGB community to disassociate from those who were transgendered (reference intellectualtakeout.org, June 29, 2016). We suppose this later acceptance of the transgendered into the social fabric is due in part to them being considered, if you will, the “poor sisters”, and because general awareness of this group has surfaced much later than the others. That could be why so much attention is now being given to this “trans” issue, and the rampant TRANSPHOBIA that is currently present. Why do we find it easier to recognize, relate to, or accept a person who is gay or lesbian, but yet we will ignore, avoid, and abhor those who are transgendered? Our goal in this blog is to delve into The Truth about those who are transgendered, exploring many aspects surrounding their existence.

We’ll start this portion of our blog by reviewing the many facts of human existence we already know. Picture in your mind that horizontal line we drew in a previous discussion of TRANSPHOBIA. On one end of that line is the girly-girl (oozes estrogen, loves Barbies, wouldn’t be caught dead in a pair of pants, and spends time curling her hair while carefully applying the full range of makeup every day). On the opposite end of the line are those macho men (oozes testosterone, loves GI Joe, welcomes a fight, and doesn’t like to shave believing, like Samson of old, that the amount of body hair equates to the amount of his strength). In between the two lies the vast expanse of humanity. Close to the very middle of the line are some women who act and think like tomboys, and some men who think or act more like women. We have all seen and associated with individuals along the whole line. Some were gay, some lesbian, and some we can’t even plot exactly where they might fall along that line. Where would you place yourself along that line? Do you recognize people crossing your daily life path who are either to the right or left of you on that line?

For a moment, let’s all recognize there are idiots, criminals really, men who will slap on a dress and wig and rob a business or molest a girl. These individuals only exacerbate TRANSPHOBIA. Unfortunately, in today’s media, bad and strange events make good news, and those who pretend to be “trans” only give those who struggle daily with being transgendered a bad rap as they are lumped into the same category as those who interlope for personal gain in this transgendered class of the people. The Truth is there is a stark division of morality and decency between the trans pretender and the one who is truly transgendered, and it is grave mistake to lump them into the same category, for they are far from it.

To begin our search for The Truth, consider the following that relates to “trans” issues. When a baby is born, the only test that determines what goes on the birth certificate is what lies between the baby’s legs, in the crotch area. There is usually no extensive blood or any hormone tests, no chromosome or genetic testing, and no brain scans to either confirm or deny the initial declaration, and that declaration may have actually taken place weeks before during an ultrasound. There is usually no study done of the baby’s chemistry or biological impacts within the mother’s womb. Let us all recognize that some babies are born with autism, some with birth defects, some with down syndrome, or a host of other difficult issues that must be dealt with by the parents and the growing child. Some of that is genetics, and the research to find reasons or causes is still on-going. Do you know that some babies are born as hermaphrodites (having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics)? Is this God’s idea of a practical joke or is it the fact that we do not live in a perfect world void of anomalies, sometimes the result of mankind’s unrelenting pursuit of dangerous experimentation? (Does the Wuhan lab bioweapon COVID-19 virus come to mind?) In nature, many animals are hermaphroditic, where the species sex is not determined by the number of X or Y chromosomes but determined by the maturity around the environment of each species, like the earthworm, water fleas, leeches, starfish, corals, the poisonous frog, the guppy and parrot fish (lorecentral.org, July 11, 2019). Do you realize 1,500 animal species are gay (New Medical Life Sciences, Oct. 23, 2006)? Is God messing with us again?

The Truth is, it has been accepted practice in western culture to limit sex to a binary choice in humans, and the external presentation has always been the gold standard. Any baby born deformed, sickly, or simply the wrong sex, faced, by ancient Roman law, religion, and the entire ethos of the ancient world, infanticide (killing/murder of children) by abandoning their newborns on the dung heaps or garbage dumps of cities. “Tertullian says Christians sought out the tiny bodies of newborn babies from the refuse and dung heaps and raised them as their own or tended to them before they died or gave them a decent burial.” (earlychurchhistory.org, “Infanticide in the Ancient World”.) Are we more civilized than they, and do we always choose to accept, love, and raise any newborn regardless of appearance? Do we question that love when the child grows, and we learn that within that child there is variance to our accepted belief of behavioral norms?

In our search for The Truth, let us also be real and understand that any transgendered woman (going from male to female), becoming so after puberty, will never have ovaries, experience childbirth, or have a true understanding of what a sis-female (identified as female from birth) had to endure in the rush of hormones and menstrual cycles every 28 days or so when growing up. Gender Confirmation Surgery (removing the male phallus and creating a female vagina), and even a limited Orchiectomy (the removal of testicles, the source of testosterone), can assist in solving a person’s Gender Dysphoria (“. . . a profound state of unease or dissatisfaction. It is the opposite of euphoria.” Wikipedia). In addition, facial and vocal surgery can make one look and sound more feminine, but all that is simply how you can appear to other people. The person becoming a transgendered woman after puberty will be left predominately with the body that the puberty testosterone gave them, like a bigger bone structure and stronger muscles. While becoming transgendered after puberty, any transgendered woman needs to understand that your life change does not give you the right to invade women sports! Those post-puberty transgendered women who insist on claiming all legal and moral rights to womanhood, only further inflame TRANSPHOBIA. As a transgendered woman, live your life as the person you may now be, but do so understanding that there are now limits to what you honestly have the right and privilege to do. Caitlyn Jenner, as a transgendered woman, has publicly stated she will not participate in a woman’s-only golf tournament, because she knows she can out drive them all. “I play golf and, seven years after my transition, I still have a big advantage over women players. I’m 6ft 1in. I have longer arms than the ladies and I can outdrive them by a hundred yards. Even being off testosterone and on estrogen for seven years now, what I’ve got left over is still more than they’ve ever had. So, it wouldn’t be fair.” (townhall.com; Madeline Leesman; Mar 18, 2022.) Wearing an NBA player’s jersey does not give a fan the right to play in the NBA. If you do not understand all of this, then you have been avoided dealing with The Truth.

Let’s briefly address those who have not yet reached puberty. There has been of late a push to allow teachers, educators and administrators at all levels, to act as a unique form of carpetbagger hired, elected, or appointed, to act as surrogate parents, making decisions for young people apart from those who are the only legal guardians, the parents. The Truth is that without proper parental legal consent, those who inject their own bias and beliefs into the young minds of innocent children are shaping those children into their own image and supplanting the natural order of a parent’s role. Discussions of sex and gender, or any leadings outside the parental approved curriculum, are to be strongly discouraged and avoided, and if necessary, reprimanded.

There is much discussion whether there is a difference between “sex” and “gender”. Those in the grips of TRANSPHOBIA would claim there is no difference. Those who make allowance for those who are “trans” might define the difference this way: “Sex is who you are in bed. Gender is who you are out of bed.” Some might say it this way: “Gender is between the ears while sex is between the legs.” Still, another way it could be stated is that “Sex is biological, while gender is behavioral.” The Truth about the definitions of sex and gender will hopefully be clearer as our series of blogs on TRANSPHOBIA continues.

Before we get into the facts potentially causing this seeming surge in “trans” issues creating TRANSPHOBIA, we want to explore how other cultures, even in our own Nation, deal with those who are “trans”, and why do they seem to find cultural value in these people. Looking to other cultures helps us to better know The Truth. Let’s look to many of the Native North American views of gender and sexuality in pre-colonial times. “A lot of gender and sexuality in Native North American culture is covered in William Roscoe’s ‘Changing Ones’. ‘Two-Spirit’ is the English translation of the Anishinabe/Ojibway term niizh mantoag. This has developed into a pantribal term in the 1990s that tries to cover the gender and sexual variations among all the different tribes across North America.” “According to Roscoe, the Crow’s third gender was called Bote. Bote was determined from whether or not a male/female preferred women’s/men’s work.” “Roscoe points out that in the Navajo tribe, the Nedleehi were more influenced by sexuality.” “. . . being Nedlieehi was a broader spectrum with the Navajos. Nedleehi could just have the sexuality aspect and not crossdress, or perform work of the opposite gender, or a mix of both.” “. . . like the Crow and most other tribes, being Two-Spirit meant you were spiritually gifted and became a shaman.” (Odyssey, Matthew Paige, March 28, 2016.) These “trans” people also included the Winkte of the Lakota society, and more broadly from around the world, the Bakla of the Philippians, and the Hijra from India, just to name a few. “The Zuni Ihamana were born biologically male, but dressed in women’s clothing, and performed typical female roles, such as cooking, weaving and pottery making. They were admired for their skills as artisans, and often served as mediators and teachers.” “. . . Two Spirits were considered a distinct and separate gender – one that combined and balanced both male and female essences. As such, their world view and experiences were unlike those of binary genders. They were therefore seen as extra ordinary, possessing a sacred quality.” “. . . Native people believed a person could be born with both male and female spirits, and that this was a manifestation of the sacred. There was no judgement based on gender or sexuality – A person was valued based upon their contributions to the tribe, and by their character. Two Spirits people and their accomplishments were, and still are, worthy of celebration.” (John Malloy Gallery, “Names and Roles of Two Spirit People: An Historical Perspective”, Cherie Randall.)

Our search for The Truth continues next week as we consider some real-life examples, and as we then explore more deeply the science and potential causes for those who are transgendered. As we aim to stop and reduce the growth of TRANSPHOBIA, we must always be reminded that our individual FREEDOM and LIBERTY applies to all in this great Nation of ours. Tolerance was demanded just a few short years ago, but now, it seems most have drawn a hard line and become rife with intolerance, and that applies to both ends of the political spectrum. As we mentioned in our last blog, the Bible says: “You shall love your neighbor as thyself” (Leviticus 19:18, Mark 12:31). Similarity of thought, or joint agreement, is not a prerequisite to love.

In this series of blogs on the topic of TRANSPHOBIA, we have so far established the groundwork upon which to build a better understanding of the nature of the word “trans” and how it applies to our understanding of those who may find themselves tangled within its confining web of their personal reality. We have no illusions that all who read this series of blogs will suddenly change behaviors, because we know that to do so takes weeks of study, meditation and reflection to gain a better understanding and application of the knowledge obtained. We do hope, however, that this is the beginning of a road leading to a better comprehension, and leading to a determined process, to resolve conflicts in perceptions and awareness that now exist, so that those who may fall into the web of “trans” issues can find hope, understanding, and most of all, acceptance. Not necessarily the type of acceptance where all are in 100% agreement, but where a mutual understanding, immersed in love and respect, can be beneficial to all. The Denial of the exploration of facts is prelude to the TRANSPHOBIA mindset.

Let’s begin this discussion by revealing why The Denial is rampant. The feminist movement really began in 1848 with woman’s suffrage, seeking equal rights, and then exploded with the woman’s liberation movement in the 1960s. Let us be the first to express that what we are about to detail cannot be blamed in total on these movements but are only part of the slope that has slid us to where we are in this Nation today. There really can be no argument to the fact that the male species has over time been vilified, made less important to the preservation of our species. During WWII, “Rosie the Riveter” was the embodiment of woman strength, and power, and without her, our Nation might have been serving today under a very undesirable flag of an Aryan race. However, the independence women achieved during this time has slowly over time eroded the importance of men. In fact, today, men have been vilified in many ways. Just the very terminology used in women’s health issues subconsciously blame men, words like menopause, menstruation, and menstrual cycle or menses, all being things women would love to avoid! We could also examine the phycological effect on all by thinking of other words like manslaughter, manipulation, and maniacal. Do you get the picture? Examine the number of what we call “stupid men commercials” on TV and in radio, where the man always seems to be the idiot, with the woman being the level-headed adult in the room. If you do not recognize this, then you are in the grasp of The Denial.

Let’s be frank for a moment. The testosterone level in men has been declining for years. “Seventy-year-old men in 1987-89 had an average testosterone level that was almost 100 points higher than even 55-year-old men in 2002-04. Meaning that the average 22-year-old man today, has an average testosterone level roughly equal to that of a 67-year-old man in 2000. Therefore, it’s likely that your testosterone levels are half of those of your father and undoubtedly significantly less than your grandfather.” “The negative trend seems to be getting worse and happening to men at much younger ages than ever before.” (Parla, Roberta Stringer, June 17, 2021.) You are in the grips of The Denial if you haven’t paid attention to all of the ads on TV and radio talking about “ED” (Erectile Disfunction). Testosterone impacts many areas in the body, namely the brain (like sex drive and confidence), muscles (growth, strength, and endurance), bones (mass density), bone marrow (red blood cell production), sex organs (sperm production, erectile function), and skin (hair and collagen growth). “External toxins are also wreaking havoc with male hormones. Chemicals (including parabens and phthalates) in our environment are disrupting our hormonal balance, causing various degrees of reproductive havoc on a daily basis. These are called hormone or endocrine disrupting chemicals – also known as EDCs. They are undoubtedly playing a role in testosterone levels declining at 10% per decade.” (Parla reference above.) So why is the testosterone level in men decreasing? “Low testosterone in men is called hypogonadism. If a man has this condition, it means that he is not producing enough testosterone. Male hypogonadism may be congenital, or it may develop later in life. By congenital, we mean that he is born with that defect.“ (NFSMI.ORG, January 20, 2021.) Several reasons for low testosterone are known for sure, like obesity, age, smoking, pituitary disorders, injury to or undescended testicles, and stress are the evident ones. Less known is “Klinefelter Syndrome”, a genetic anomaly where the Y chromosome is replaced with another X chromosome, so that the normal XY genetic makeup is replaced with an XX. Still another is the “Kallmann Syndrome” which is characterized by failure of puberty to begin, or the inability to go through puberty completely. These are not all the known potential reasons. Cancer treatment with radiation and chemotherapy treatments can affect spermatogenesis (sperm production) and can become permanent. Mumps and other infections can cause extended hormonal problems. (NFSMI.ORG, January 20, 2021.) If you have avoided recognizing the above facts, then you are in the grasp of The Denial. What does all of this have to do with TRANSPHOBIA?

When considering the seemingly increasing number of “trans” related issues facing us today, one has to wonder if this lack of testosterone, and societal changes diminishing the male species, has to have some impact? There is a story told about two men coming home at night, and one of them dropped his keys. The other man went to go help his friend find them but noticed the man who had dropped his keys was looking in an area under the streetlight. He questioned his friend as to why he was looking in that area, telling him that they had been nowhere near that streetlight. The man who lost his keys simply stated, “I thought I would look over here because the light is better.” We wonder if the whole cause of the “trans” issue is being basically ignored, seeing only what has been believed from the past, without looking in the right places, looking for the answer to the question, “Why”? Where has been the science and study to resolve this question? Are we content to live in The Denial, and not be concerned with those who are afflicted with the “trans” issue? And while we are at it, rather than condemning those who are gay or lesbian, where have been the widely disseminated studies and research answering the questions of “Why are some people gay or lesbian?” We just seem to, over time, accept that as fact, while at the same time many quietly believe them to be unworthy of respect and acceptance.

Conservatives, even this website, often claim the “woke” among us just do not fill up their knowledge bucket with enough true facts to make better informed decisions. However, the same applies to many conservatives who are often blinded by the bubble they surround themselves with and then fail to explore truths outside the generally accepted mantra, and the full truth is then often not explored, nor is there even a desire to do so. If you do not believe this to be true, then you are in the grips of The Denal. Sometimes personal thought and belief is like the lane in a bowling alley. Once you are in the gutter, there is a strong tendency to remain therein. We have never witnessed a bowling ball ever jumping itself out of the gutter. The only way to get out of the gutter is to stay away from it and never get into it! Staying in the lane of science and knowledge is always the best course to follow.

Let’s set the record straight. We no longer live in the Garden of Eden! If you believe this earth is heaven, then you are in the grasp of The Denial. This world was cursed by God and His human creations are flawed to this day (Genesis 3:16-19). Weeds grow in our flowerbeds and gardens. Violence rocks our streets, and mischief of all sorts invades our neighborhoods. Evil abounds, and few if any are immune from its presence or effects. No one knows all the reasons why people are as they are. God does not make human junk, but mankind has certainly been able to screw up that which was perfectly created! Our bodies are a composition of multiple influences such as social, economic, genetics, industrial, chemical, behavioral and biological. Consider the various human “creations” over time and how they have influenced our bodies and lives. DDT was thought to be the answer to irradicating insects, and the diseases borne by them, but it turned out to do more to irradicate good human health. Asbestos was widely used before anybody began the scientific research and find out why so many were falling ill and dying. Agent Orange was used extensively in war, and veterans and indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia are paying the price for its use years later. Each and every year, some great advancement, pill or chemical, has to be removed from the marketplace because of unintended consequences due to a failure to properly vet the product before distribution. We wonder how long before the COVID-19 vaccines are removed because of the number of illnesses and deaths they have caused?

If you are living believing that all new advances are void of any harm, then you are in the grasp of The Denial. The same is true with being transfixed by the TRANSPHOBIA craze. We have allowed ourselves to be influenced by a few who have failed to “look in the hard places, away from the streetlight”, to do the deep dive of scientific research to find the answers to the question, “Why?” It is always easier to assume you know the answer, and repeat the mantra, whatever it is, than to seek out the truth, be respectful until it is known, and realize that all of us are flawed in one way or another. The Holy Scripture tells us the second greatest commandment is to “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Mark 12:31.) Note that the “neighbor” is not defined. The neighbor could be your enemy, or someone who walks to the beat of a different drum. Regardless, the command is to “Love”. As we have mentioned before, if you seek FREEDOM and LIBERTY, then it must apply not only to you, but to everyone, even if you do not understand them. As it says in the sentence in the picture at the beginning of this blog, we must recognize and accept that “all they really want is to be found.” It is long past time to do the deep dive, legitimate scientific research, and explore the areas that are dark to our knowledge, away from the light of current beliefs, perceptions, and ideology.

Somewhere along the line, we have been told that the difference between a man and a woman is like the difference between night and day. Yes, there are biological differences, but we often overlook the vast number of similarities. Most people have two arms, legs, eyes and ears. Most have one mouth, one nose, and one heart. Both are a system of nerves, muscles, and joints, and both share the same largest organ, that being the skin, although we find that can vary in color, texture, and level of beauty, as defined by the vain among us. The one thing that most defines what side of the sex we stand on, is how we dress. Here in lies The Irony of TRANSPHOBIA. Now, before you jump to the conclusion that dress alone is the defining quality, let’s just agree for now that the outward appearance usually wins as the initial source for categorization.

If we were to go back a few years into history, we might want to disapprove of how many of our Founding Fathers dressed. In formal settings they often wore powdered white wigs and ruffled shirts, an influence from European customs. If they walked among us in that attire today, what would we say if we saw them? If our ancestors of just 100 years ago were to view women today who, in the vast majority, wear only pants styled after men’s jeans, what would our great-great-great relatives think about their attire today? The Irony is that we are so willing and able to disassociate ourselves from the context of history in favor of the current culture and fad. Let’s even travel to other parts of our world. The Whirling Dervishes might seem a bit out of our sphere of comfort. “Dervish is a Persian word that broadly refers to followers of a Sufi Muslim religious order known as the Mevievi Brotherhood.“ (Scovie Precision Turning, Scott Stacy.) Wearing long flowing skirts, they energetically spin about in a ceremony known as sema, holding their right arm up to receive heavenly blessings. You might be surprised to learn that men wearing something other than pants was pretty common in history. “. . . the notion that pants are masculine – and skirts are feminine – is much newer than most people think.” “. . . the tradition of men in cloth wraps, skirts, tunics, robes and other non-pant items is vast and ancient.” “Skirts were the matter-of-fact wear of many of humanity’s most ancient civilizations, on both sides of the gender binary. Gauzy wraps and loincloths for Egyptians, togas denoting class and status for Greeks and Romans, ornate military costumes for Aztecs: many ancient costumes were based around the idea of the skirt, purely because they were easy to construct and created huge freedom of movement. Whether you were fighting, building, farming or engaging in some kind of religious ritual, skirts were cheap and efficient to use. Short skirts among soldiers from the height of the Roman Empire, noted an exhibition at the Met called ‘Braveheart: Men In Skirts’ were considered proof of virility, and allowed for swiftness while in combat.” “Two factors, theorists note, determined the use of pants by either gender: cold and the necessity for horse-riding.” Riding an animal “. . . just wasn’t practical in skirts . . .” (Bustle, “The History Of Men & Skirts, From Ancient Times To Today”, JR Thorpe, Updated Oct. 11, 2021.) Pants became the practical attire for men going to war on horses, and since the men did the fighting, the pant was the choice of wear for men only. The wearing of pants seemed to hang around even though few these days ride horses. Here is a shocker for those who distain the wear of nylons, “As men’s tunics became shorter and tighter-fitting in the 15th century, fashionable men began to wear hose or stockings as outer leg wear.” It really wasn’t until the 19th century when the custom of pants for men and skirts for women became the dominate theme. “. . . the idea that skirts are entirely feminine is in fact very Western-centered. In several cultures, from India to Japan and Southeast Asia, robes and skirts remain completely acceptable wear for adult men.“ (Bustle article as noted above.) We dare you to tell a Scott to stop wearing his kilt! But, we find it perfectly acceptable to joke about, “Is he or isn’t he?”, wearing anything underneath. The Irony is that for some we make allowance, but for others we do not.

Addressing the outer wear of either a man or woman is not the defining issue of what makes a man or a woman, it is only an indication of what may lie within the individual, both physically and mentally. The Irony is that we totally accept women wearing jeans, while at the same time we are ignorant of the historical context. The Irony of TRANSPHOBIA is exacerbated by the conclusions we draw based upon how one is dressed, while giving little to no thought to an individual’s history, including from conception, through child-rearing age, and up until the age of accountability. That is where one becomes an adult and makes personal informed decisions based not just on their feelings, but also upon personal research leading to an understanding of who they really are and how they choose to fit within society. All of that is usually never considered by an observer, only assumed by personal bias and limited knowledge about the person being observed.

Often, those of religious belief, base their understanding of the TRANSPHOBIA issue upon ancient Biblical texts where the culture of that day lived differently than civilization today. One specific text that is often cited as their proof that men should not wear women’s clothes, comes from the text found in Deuteronomy 22:5. First, note that the command is not simply given to the man, but the reverse command is also given to the woman. The reason for God’s command is unknown, only speculation exists. Perhaps barbaric nations around them participated in sexual immorality in their temples of prostitution where they would exchange clothes, so a distinction needed to be made between the amoral nations and God’s people. One interesting thing needs to be realized within this very chapter. If one is to take this command as a command for all time, danger lies ahead in this understanding. Look to verse number 8. If you live in a house without a papapet (an exterior wall extending above the roof line to prevent someone from falling off the roof), you would be in violation of God’s law in this chapter. Look to verse 9. If you plant more than one kind of seed in your garden, you are taking a risk of defiling your garden. Consider verse 11. If you wear clothes of materials with mixed origin, in this case wool and linen, you would be in violation of God’s law. Have you checked the labels on your clothes lately? Take a look at verse 12. Every garment you cover yourself with should have tassels on each of the four corners. Do you even know what a tassel on a garment looks like? If you abhor the act of stoning, then do not read verses 13 to 25, because we can assure you, there would be hordes of stoning within our Nation each and every day. The point is that one cannot lift from holy scripture a single text to support your personal belief, one that lines up with your feelings of the day. The Old Testament was never intended to be used as a guide for life today. It is a historical document teaching how God intended His people of those days to act, and recorded the many failures along the way, useful information today to know about the nature and character of God and understanding pitfalls along the way and how reconciliation with God is possible. The Irony is that while many claim to profess strict adherence to God’s law, it would seem that many skip over and ignore the parts that may inconveniently applied to them in their lives today.

The Irony of TRANSPHOBIA is often shrouded by us in preconceived perceptions and an unwillingness to explore issues we find uncomfortable, and ones we even have grown up believing to be abhorrent and repulsive. The Irony is that many preach the importance of knowing the truth yet succumb to an incredible lack of desire to seek out and understand their personal bias exemplified in TRANSPHOBIA.

As it is with all of our blogs, we encourage all of us to make decisions that will always lead us to FREEDOM and LIBERTY, and often times that will require each one of us to challenge the foundations we thought were firm, upon which we stood. Believing in those two precepts is not simply a challenge for us personally, but also a challenge for us when relating to others, as their FREEDOM and LIBERTY is as important as is our own within this great Nation in which we live together. The Irony is that while we often preach FREEDOM and LIBERTY, we at the same time will deny the same to those we disagree with, or to those who choose a different path from the one we choose to walk. TRANSPHOBIA is akin to a form of mental disease. This mindset allows some to excuse their personal bias, while at the same time justifies the incrimination and segregation others. In the coming weeks, we will be exploring how many are consumed in what we will call “The Denial” of many facts surrounding TRANSPHOBIA, and we will consider “The Truth” that many choose to ignore, either because of preconceived bias or simple lack of knowledge, shunning a more in-depth search through investigative science.

This is likely to be a several blog series dealing with the “trans” issue in our Nation and world today. This is not an easy subject to approach, as it would seem we are trying to swim upstream against the majority view of truth and morality. In the conservative realm of politics, it seems there is only one acceptable view of this issue. While we have consistently explored Democratic, liberal, and woke attempts to reframe our Nation’s core beliefs and structure, and extolled constantly how we must fight to resist this movement and to retain our God-given FREEDOM and LIBERTY, we have not been as motivated to explore how those on the conservative side of politics also have flaws, short-comings, and can often be swayed by “talking heads”, and dare we say “woke conservatism”, where certain core beliefs can become rampant within the echo chamber of conservative political discourse, often void of a deep dive into the facts. All we intend to do in this series of blogs is to try and re-frame the discussion around TRANSPHOBIA so that all can begin to understand how much we really do not know about the “trans” issues, and how much there is yet to learn about this topic. Let’s begin with a few facts we believe all can agree with.

We have become quite familiar with surveys that will ask us to rate something on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the worst and 10 being the best. We recognize that we all see issues slightly differently, for a myriad of reasons, and rarely do we see eye-to-eye on every subject we could evaluate. When you look upon a forest of trees and shrubs in full bloom, what color of green do you see? How many different shades of green do you see? Do you even know how many shades of green there are? If you have ever been to a home improvement or paint store and been browsing for just the right color, your mind was probably blown away realizing how many different shades of one color actually exist. One website (color-meanings.com/shades-of-green) actually lists 134 shades of the green color. We bet that we could come up with multiple times that number just by combining two or more of those 134 different shades. Picking out the right shade of green is not as simple as it seems. This is a form of variety that makes a very bland world more interesting. Most of you probably own a printer. If you have ever had to replace ink cartridges, you know there are not 134 separate cartridges for the color green, yet if you print out a color page, green is displayed quite well, even though most printers have only four basic cartridges, black, magenta, cyan, and yellow jaune. None of those colors happen to be green! The creators of that technological marvel have learned that most colors, or close facsimiles to them, can be derived from those 4 basic cartridges. Pretty impressive. It should also be pointed out that we do not live in a monochromatic world, controlled only by the colors of black and white, and the various shades mixing the two of them create. If you have not seen the 1998 movie “Pleasantville”, you should watch it and see the conflict that arises out of the addition of color to a color-blind society, but there are also some wonderful surprises along the way as the movie moves to its conclusion. William Cowper’s 1785 poem, “The Task”, included the proverbial expression, “Variety is the Spice of Life”. Where would human existence be if all of us had the same job interest and talent, all looked identical, and all had the same speech dialect and inflection. If all were plumbers, when the electrical grid failed, where would be the electricians to effect repairs? If all were drummers in the orchestra of life, where would the blending of different sounds come from to move us with harmonies produced by different pitches produced from different instruments? Human life always existed in a world of color, even though most of past ages were void of color TV or color film. Most of us are moved by the colors of a beautiful sunset, or the variety of colors exploding in the skies on the 4th of July, or when viewing the undulating ribbons of the Northern Lights. Variety does move us emotionally, and it fills our souls with wonder and amazement. Do you really want to live in a world where the only colors are black and white?

In the previous paragraph we talked about the rating scale of 1 to 10. Let’s explore this type of scale to humans, and more specifically to that which we will call a girl or woman, using the classical sense of the word. The English language always seems to evolve, incorporating an ever-broadening use of new words or terms. The Renaissance (French word for rebirth), “Generally described as taking place from the 14th century to the 17th century . . .” (History.com), was a period wedged between the Middle Ages and modern-day civilization. The cultural advances during the Renaissance exploded during this time, and included advances in “. . . classical philosophy, literature and art. Some of the greatest thinkers, authors, statesmen, scientists and artists in human history thrived during this era, while global exploration opened up new lands and cultures to European commerce.” (History.com.) During this time, new terms were used to describe human behavior, terms like “Tomboy”, “. . . originally used to refer to, ‘brash, boisterous, or self-assured youth’, date to the mid-16th century.” (knowyourmeme.com/memes/tomboy.) “But by the 1590’s, the word underwent a shift toward its current, feminine usage: a ‘wild, romping girl, [a] girl who acts like a spirited boy’.” “The tomboy conjures an image of a girl in overalls and baseball hats, wearing short hair and nondescript shoes. she probably isn’t into Barbie.” “Many girls, of course, exhibit both girly and tomboy traits, and the infinite shades in between. Nevertheless, the tomboy is an overlooked part of how American society understands gender, race, class, and sexuality.” (The Atlantic, “A Short History of the Tomboy”, Elizabeth King.) Most of us have to admit that we have interfaced at some point in our lives with a tomboy. Some have falsely believed we were looking at a lesbian, but that belief is ill founded and a dangerous leap of understanding without the proper context or knowledge. For the most part, we have rationalized that a girl being a tomboy is not a bad thing, it’s just the way they are. Just because she would rather wear pants or blue jeans instead of a dress or skirt, and has an interest in football or wrestling, doesn’t make her any less a girl or woman, she’s just a different shade of the same general category of girl or woman. We believe we all accept this as the way it is. Our question to you is this, “What goes on inside her that makes her a tomboy?” The question is not the simple answer conveyed by outward expression through her actions and what she wears, but what ticks inside her brain making her feel different than say a “girly-girl”, one who prefers dresses and Barbies? Has that question ever been answered? Why is it that we accept knowing girls or women as tomboys for who they are, but seem intent on vilifying boys or men who act more like girls than boys?

There is little doubt today that girls and women feel more comfortable in jeans than dresses. Just go out shopping today to any store and count the numbers clad in either attire. We believe the overwhelming number will be found wearing pants of some ilk. When the night falls, and the clubs open, these tomboy appearing girls and women seem to convert in a few hours to visions of glamor and beauty. They are like chameleons, able to change their appearance to coordinate with their surroundings. Now, we are not condemning this behavior, we are just pointing out the reality in which we find ourselves. We doubt few have disagreements, and certainly would vilify, with how those girls and women express themselves in how they dress, either way. Remember the sliding scale from 1 to 10? The range between the girly-girl who likes Barbies, to the tomboy who prefers playing football, spans a broad range of those who identify as girls or women. What makes them so different has never really been researched. We have just accepted this over time as the way it is. Assume the girly-girl is a 1 on the scale, and a tomboy is a 10. We accept this broad range of style and action and do not question the right of either to exist anywhere along that line from 1 to 10. Why do we not allow the same FREEDOM and LIBERTY for boys and men, recognizing that they also have a right to exist anywhere from a 1 to a 10? Is that their problem, or is it ours? What goes on inside to make them a 1 or 10 on our scale? Have we done research to find out, or ever even asked the question?

As it is in all of our blogs, we always strive to retain and protect our FREEDOM and LIBERTY. These two attributes are not just for you, but for each and every one who is a citizen of this wonderful Nation, whether they be girls and women, or boys and men. While you seek these attributes for yourself, you must of necessity allow these attributes to exist for others, regardless of your personal likes or dislikes. FREEDOM and LIBERTY apply to all equally, or they do not apply to any at all. In this series of blogs, we intend to open minds so we can be more informed and then better understand the statement posed in the short video clip above, “You don’t know anything about me.” It is time to put on our big-boy pants, expand our understanding outside the bubble of our current knowledge and experience, and learn more about this “trans” issue, and hopefully greatly diminish TRANSPHOBIA.

Nothing is more terrifying than being out of control and left to the fate of gravity, momentum, and unmovable objects. In the short video clip above, we do not know all the facts surrounding this accident, but one thing is clearly evident, that the driver was causing the car to go too fast for the corner. It wasn’t the car’s fault. It wasn’t the roadway’s fault. It wasn’t the ditch’s fault or the dirt embankment. The driver has to assume the majority of the blame for this crash. Now, one can argue about the warning the driver had about the curve in the road. We cannot determine conclusively from this video any of that evidence, although red arrow signs are present indicating a turn to the left. Driving can be dangerous, especially if a driver is unfamiliar with the road, conditions on the road, and the car’s capability. Through the years, traffic engineers have attempted to mitigate many potential road hazards. It all begins with the road lay-out. Maybe in this case sharp curves were inevitable due to the road winding along a creek through mountainous terrain. Whatever the reason for the winding road, there were still undoubtedly efforts made to warn drivers of the road ahead, like the red arrow signs pointing to the left.

Without getting too far into the weeds in this analogy we are presenting, we would just like to point out the amount of advance planning that traffic engineers go through to ensure a road is safe for travel. Warning signs for roadways initially started in Missouri in 1937. Research was published by the “Highway Research Board” in 1940. Much of this was adopted in the “1948 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices”. We selected one state’s “Traffic Engineering Operations & Safety Manual” as an example. That state was Wisconsin (Wisconsin, dtsd manual, traffic-ops, February 2018). Chapters 2 and 3 contain much of the guidance concerning curves in roadways. There are 14 pages, “2-3-35 Advisory Speed in Curves”, that contain much of the information about roadway curves. Those pages cover the evolution of policy, lateral acceleration, ball-bank reading, charts, formulas, methodologies, traffic characteristics, roadway geometrics, traffic control devices, and of course speed data. Never let it be said that there is never any planning in roadway curve construction, or that traffic engineers don’t earn their pay!

We are pretty sure that everyone reading this blog has at some point in time failed to adequately PLAN AHEAD. It is usually unwise to proceed forward with any task if at least some consideration is not given to the road ahead. Are there potential pitfalls, or has consideration been given to unexpected occurrences? Advance planning can lead to better outcomes, and in the case of the driver in the video above, maybe a safe continuation forward to the desired destination. It’s time now to connect the dots and bring our analogy into the proper context of today’s blog.

We are quite frankly gob-smacked, to the point of slapping our foreheads with the palms of our hands, each and every time our current government officials make policy or take action. Washington D.C. is often “a day late and a dollar short.” Every situation that seems to crop up, whether it be the invasion at our southern border, the policies crippling our energy independence, the bungled retreat from Afghanistan, or even now, the ineptitude exhibited in our Nation’s response to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, it is evident that those in control of the power levers in our Nation’s capital have been “shooting from the hip” and guessing about future courses of actions. Other cases could also be mentioned, like our supply-chain issues, our dependence upon other nations, primarily China, for products that sustain our economy. We could also throw in how government colluded with, and was assisted by big pharma, corporate elites, and the woke media. As Robert Gates (former Defense Secretary) once said, “I think he [current occupant of the White House] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades”, (The Atlantic, Philip Bump). Every decision that has been blundered upon has been done so with warning signs present well in advance warning of potential catastrophic outcomes. However, due to ineptitude, rashness, foolishness, and arrogance, warnings were ignored, or not even seen or contemplated, due to a rush to preconceived woke outcomes, and in some cases, due to a fear of reprisal from those who have compromised them with gifts, money, and entangled associations.

Throttling our Border Patrol and ICE agents, and not allowing them to follow national law, has allowed this influx of illegal aliens into our Nation, and actually encouraged and supported financially through NGOs (Non-Government Organizations), usually funded by your tax dollars and distributed willy-nilly by Congress with little if any proper oversight. We all saw the growing number of caravans coming up from the south, especially after the current occupant of the White House said, “I would in fact make sure that there is, that we immediately surge to the border all those people are seeking asylum. they deserve to be heard.” (RealClearPolitics, John Kass, March 24, 2021.) The nine-thousand oil leases touted by the current Press Secretary are just the tip of the gargantuan process needed to make good on any of those oil leases. The fact is, “. . . it could take up to 10 years of overcoming regulatory hurdles and years of drilling before the oil well of an ‘approved’ lease becomes fruitful: They must organize and safely manage their reservoir and satisfy several regulatory requirements, such as onsite inspection, environmental review and permit approval.” (CNSnews, Craig Bannister, March 7, 2022.) As far as the bungled retreat from Afghanistan goes, which resulted in the deaths of 13 American service personnel, and 45 were injured (NBCnews, February 4, 2022), it was well known that the Taliban was seizing vast territorial power weeks before the retreat. “Leaked notes from a White House Situation Room meeting the day before Kabul fell shed new light on just how unprepared the [current occupant of the White House] administration was to evacuate . . . “ “Hours before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan’s capital on Aug. 15, 2021, senior [occupant of the White House] administration officials were still discussing and assigning basic actions involved in a mass civilian evacuation.” (Axios, Jonathan Swan, February 1, 2022.)

It continues to happen where the current administration in Washington D.C. lacks the foresight and ability to see, predict, and prepare for anything that is happening to our Nation and around the world. It is apparent that the current administration is one of a reactive nature, not predictive nature. The road signs have warned us of the dangerous curves ahead, but the current administration seems bent on driving blindly forward, not calculating what dangers lie ahead. As the once most powerful Nation on this earth, the current administration has left us weak and feckless. We are an insult to those who once looked up to us as a beacon of FREEDOM and LIBERTY. We are coming late to any action, never leading anymore, and have been showing that when we do respond, we will pick the worst possible course of action and at the most inopportune time. This Nation must PLAN AHEAD, for there is always a DANGEROUS CURVE AHEAD! For those of us who treasure our Constitution and Bill of Rights, it is long past time to get involved, to stand proudly, to speak loudly, and to counter each and every attack upon our Nation, and upon what it stands for, and to restore everything good, decent, moral, truthful and just. May God bless the United States of America! However, He may only do that if we take actions with the talents we have been blessed with in order to protect, preserve, and maintain the FREEDOM and LIBERTY handed down to us through the ages, the same hoped for by those who will yet live within the borders of this great Nation.

We are frustrated with the push from government, corporate, and media elites claiming we need to learn how to live without oil. It is obviously due to the fact that those who claim to support this effort are ignorant of everything we use on a daily basis that would be missing if we stopped drilling and pumping for oil. We would not be the country we are now if our Nation had not benefited from the industrial age in the last 100 years, primarily powered by oil. The multitude of technological and economic advances during those years would have left us as a third-world country, dependent to a great degree upon the labor of horses, oxen, and the sweat of the brows of hard-working men and women.

We do not deny that a total reliance upon oil and its derivatives as our Nation moves forward is a fool’s errand. However, there are fools who believe that shifting from one primary source of power to another can be accomplished by a simple flip of a switch. Our Nation has benefited over the decades by entrepreneurs who took advantage of our capitalistic system, and FREEDOM and LIBERTY, to take risks by the innovation and development of new products and systems. Our Nation has benefited as has those developers who have persisted in striving for a better way of human existence. Those who are anxious to see hoverboards, personal flying cars, and a life free of work and toil, need to realize that rarely in life are advances to the human condition achieved overnight. There may come a time when we fly on a commercial jet powered only by electricity, solar, nuclear, or hydrogen power, or even some other form of propulsion not yet made reality, but that time has not yet come. There needs to be a time of transition, and that can take several years, or even several decades. By the time these new technologies evolve, we may only need to walk through a community “portal-in-time” to arrive instantaneously on the other side of the world, or on another planet. Who really knows at this time? The important thing to remember is that good things, great advances, usually take time to evolve and develop. The hardest part for a world living in the “microwave society”, where instant results are expected, is learning to be patient.

Until the time of the “Jetsons” arrive in our Nation and world, it is important for all to understand what must be given up in order to live instantaneously in a world void of oil and the products that are derived by “black gold”, that which made the TV show “Beverly Hillbillies” rich. So, in keeping with an attempt to inform all who read our blogs of facts associated with oil, we will list just a few items below that each one of us would have to give up in order to live free of oil. Our list is not all inclusive but will give you an idea of how important oil is in our daily lives. Your further research can undoubtedly add to our list below. We’ll just start a short alphabetical list.

Anesthetics

Antifreeze (used in your electric cars)

Antistamines

Antiseptics

Asphalt (on which to drive your electric cars)

Aspirin

Balloons

Ballpoint Pens

Bandages

Boats

Cameras

Candles

Carpets (also used in your electric cars)

Cassettes

Clothing

Combs

Crayons

Credit Cards

Deodorant

Dishwashing Liquids

Dyes

Electric Blankets

Electrical Tape

Eyeglasses

Fan Belts

Fishing Boots

Fishing Lures

Fishing Rods

Floor Wax

Footballs

How are you doing so far in seeing anything you can live without? We’re only part way through our abbreviated alphabet. Let’s continue our list.

Glue

Guitar Strings

Hair Coloring

Hair Curlers

Hand Lotion

Hearing Aids

House Paint

Ice Chests

Ice Cube Trays

Insect Repellant

Life Jackets

Lip Stick

LP Records

Luggage

Motorcycle Helmets

Movie Film

Nail Polish

Nylon Rope

Oil Filters

Panty Hose

Parachutes

Perfumes

Petroleum Jelly

Pillows

Refrigerants (used in electric cars as well)

Refrigerator Linings

Roller Skate Wheels

Roofing

Rubbing Alcohol

By now, we are sure you have found something so far on our little list that you find useful to you each and every day. If not, let’s continue our list.

Shaving Cream

Shoe Polish

Shoes

Shower Curtains

Shower Doors

Skis

Soft Contac Lenses

Sports Car Bodies (maybe on your electric car)

Sunglasses

Tape Recorders

Telephones

Tennis Rackets

Tents

Tires (even for your electric cars)

Tooth Brushes

Tooth Paste

Trash Bags

Unbreakable Dishes

Upholstery (also used in your electric cars)

Vacuum Bottles

Vitamin Capsules

Water Pipes

So, for those of you who consider oil to be the demon of our Nation and environment, maybe you should think twice next time you try to vilify those who produce oil, and those who work in that area of our economy. About 19-20 gallons of gasoline are produced from each barrel of oil, only about 40% of each barrel of oil. Each barrel contributes to over 6,000 products used in our Nation (Steve Pryor, Consultant Energy Asset Optimization and ETRM Projects, July 26, 2016). The EPA published that 65% of our Nation’s energy comes from coal, natural gas, and oil. Wind and solar produced a whopping 7% of our Nation’s energy (December 2017, updated July 14, 2021). So, next time you spend $60,000 on an electric vehicle, and rely upon the Nation’s taxpayers to subsidize your purchase, and believe you are “saving the planet”, realize that your “contribution” is minimal at best, and at worst, a waste of money, as your batteries will not last the life-time of your car, and replacement or refurbishment of them is a drain on the quantity of precious metals which usually will be mined using gas or diesel powered equipment.

As always, we implore our readers to fight for and protect the FREEDOM and LIBERTY we have been blessed with by those who have sacrificed so much before us, so that we can bless so many who will follow us.

The short video clip above is from the very famous 1939 movie titled “The Wizard of Oz”. Having believed there was help for each one of the four from the Great Oz, they followed the yellow brick road to the Emerald City. Once there, they were dismayed to find they were subjects of a tremendous hoax. When the curtain was pulled back and revealed the truth, only then could they find what they had sought. It is truly amazing how so many fictional movies often seem to find their way into reality. Whether from some Nostradamus-like creative mind, or simple random correlation, or simply blind luck, it is often instructive to illustrate some fact of life by the existence of a pre-existing analogous example. So, we have selected the video clip above, well known to most people.

For over one year, we have been detailing ways in which our Nation has been suffering under the weight of lockdowns, mandates, and executive orders. Many believed that this was done for the good of our Nation, believing that what we were being told was the truth. Many of our previous blogs warned of the deception being perpetrated upon our Nation by government, corporate, and media elites, who were using the COVID-19 threat to weave into their woke, global, “Build Back Better” party of Davos agenda. Many of our previous blogs pulled back the curtain on the multiple deceptions, lies, and “mis-dis-mal-information” force fed by the same cast of characters. Using official, un-edited information from multiple sources, we detailed the vast amount of false information being thrust upon a gullible populace. We revealed the true reasons for why our Nation was under attack, as we sought desperately to cancel the “cancel culture”. We proclaimed with each blog the need for individual action to reclaim and protect our FREEDOM and LIBERTY. Slowly but surely the veil of deception has been exposed. We cannot claim any of this was due to our blogs, but we gladly applaud the efforts of so many patriots to use their God given talents, in whatever way they could, to help pull back the curtain of secrecy to reveal more and more of the truth, each and every day. In this blog we will once again reveal newly released data from the very corrupt CDC, one of many supposed arbiters of truth, now being revealed as the fraudulent organization they are and have been. Note that the data we present below covered only a period of time ending on January 24, 2021. Who knows what the data since then may reveal? The data below comes from the CDC GOV Table 2:

“6% of the deaths COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.”

“MOST frequently listed comorbidities with COVID-19 Deaths.”

“Influenza and pneumonia 43.5% (153,620 deaths).

Hypertension 19.8% (69,942 deaths).

Diabetes 15.6% (54,929 deaths).

Alzheimer disease and other Dementias 14.8% (52,091 deaths).

Sepsis 9.0% (31,912 deaths).”

Just looking at the chart was bad enough, but if you read the fine print under the chart, here is where the real story is told, and it is so much worse than the numbers themselves.

“There were co-morbidities or other conditions listed on the death certificate in 94% of all covid-19 deaths. The 6% of death certificates in which COVID-19 was the only condition listed WAS LIKELY RELATED TO A LACK OF DETAIL LISTED ABOUT OTHER CONDITIONS PRESENT AT THE TIME OF DEATH.” (Capital type added for emphasis.)

Did you really get what was said here? Yes, 6% of the deaths were due to COVID-19, BUT other conditions contributing to death were likely not listed, meaning that the COVID-19 only deaths could be substantially below 6%! They listed 9,210 people died from COVID-19 with no comorbidities, but then again, the number could have actually been much lower if proper documentation had been applied. The following facts were also noted, and we have noted this in a previous blog before but will only repeat it here for your review.

“For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death.”

Did you really get what was being said here? Yes, there were COVID-19 only deaths, probably much less than 6% of the total number of deaths, BUT those who died from COVID-19, or COVID-19 related ailments, had multiple health issues! If you were healthy, your chances of being killed by the COVID-19 virus was VERY low, and in fact infinitesimal for most people, especially those who were younger than 65. What is beginning to be revealed now is that there were serious problems with the vaccines. and in addition, suppression of therapeutics applied in a timely manner probably led to many unnecessary deaths. Some 55,000 pages have now been released by big pharma, and they are revealing facts proving that the vaccines probably have killed more people than they have saved. The research into these documents is on-going and will have to be revealed later as the findings are released. If you survived the COVID-19 virus, feel fortunate. If you received any of the vaccinations, you may feel fortunate for now, but the full impact of those genetic inoculations may not be known for years to come. If you have lost loved ones due to the vaccines, stay tuned as there will be investigations coming to expose all those who hid behind the curtain of secrecy to promote their own agendas, power or money, or both. If our Nation truly stands for truth and justice for all, we will eventually hold all those accountable who have wrought such havoc upon our Nation, and in fact, upon the world at large. Stand tall and stand proud as we continue to reclaim and proclaim our FREEDOM and LIBERTY.