We are going to revisit a topic we covered quite extensively in our series of 10 blogs on TRANSPHOBIA, April 3 to June 5, 2022. It is fairly obvious by listening to talk radio, watching TV, or monitoring much of social media, via whatever method you many choose, that there is an attempt in our Nation to demonize those caught in the throes of gender identities. What we will discuss will seem to be somewhat countercultural but hear us out. Quite frankly we are appalled at the rush to declare those targeted as sick, evil, or perverted. Most focus in at how God created man and woman. We have no quarrel with the God’s perfect intention for the world He created for us to live in. What belies belief is how we have so quickly forgotten that this world is not “The Garden of Eden”. The sins of God’s created human beings have left us in a world sick with sin and its consequences. To the woman, God said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you shall bring forth children; Yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” (Genesis 3:16.) To the man, God said, “Cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field; by the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” (Genesis 3:17-19.) If you doubt any that this is true, ask any woman who has given birth how comfortable was the delivery of a child. If you believe the earth has been healed from this curse, you will have to reconcile why weeds and thistles continue to grow where you do not want them. The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 8:22, “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” We know the “WHY” birthing is painful, and “WHY” weeds grow, but what about other issues that face our world today?
Mankind has continued to muck things up. Ever since the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, man has defied God’s plan for His creation. We were told to go forth into all the world and procreate (Genesis 1:28), but instead early man stopped along the way and built big cities and became evil. God regretted the day He made man, so the Great Flood wiped out all but Noah and his family, and possibly the Garden of Eden in the process, but no one knows for sure. The same command to go forth and procreate was again given (Genesis 9:1) but the fall of man continued leading eventually to redemption through belief in the Christ. That is basically the story of the Old Testament Bible in a nutshell.
But mankind has continued to muck things up. We believe ourselves to be a creative people, making all sorts of plans and manipulating the creation with our ill-proposed ideas and schemes. We invent, produce, and implement things with haste, often failing to consider consequences. When things we don’t understand appear, we are quick to blame the individual without asking the “WHY”. With some things bigger than ourselves we have used scientific methods to answer the question, “WHY”. Why is the sky blue (Rayleigh scattering), or why are rainbows colored (reflection, refraction, and dispersion of water droplets). How to seeds grow into plants with roots down and leaves up (geotropism and phototropism). We could mention a thousand or more examples, but you get the point. When we as a people are curious about the “WHY”, we seek to engage our brains and find answers. But we don’t always do this. Sometimes it’s simply easier to shift our brains into idle and go along with the noisy crowd and make unknowledgeable condemnations.
Concerning trans-athletes, we hold firm to the belief that gender transition following puberty should disqualify from participation in gender sports opposite to one’s birth sex. Puberty triggers hormone infusions that cannot be undone. Hormone infusions after puberty cannot undo what puberty has already applied. To ignore this fact is to allow potential competitive advantage or disadvantage. Boys, if you have lower external genitalia, you’ve got no business in a girl’s locker room, and if ‘you’re found there, you should be arrested, prosecuted, and jailed for a sex crime! Those who claim transgenderism need to understand that their choice in life has consequences that are no different than a person born with dwarfism understands they would never be able to play in the NBA. We often have made choices or endured situations that prevent the actualization of desires. We must learn to accept and endure, as one would have to do in being confined to a wheelchair or becoming blind. We must learn to live the life we have been given or have chosen.
Since the publishing of our series of blog posts mentioned above, additional information has surface on potential causes of transgenderism. Until we as a people begin to answer the question “WHY”, we will do disservice to those who claim to be trans. First, we want to refute the belief that transgenderism is a precursor in some way, shape, or form, to transhumanism. Those who are trans have no desire to become the first step to man-machine interface, at least to no greater percent than any other demographic group. Starting a word with “trans” is no more of a step to transhumanism as is the word “trans-Atlantic”, or power pole “transformers”. Your bank “transaction” has nothing to do with transhumanism, and neither did your old “transistor” radio. And we want to set the record straight. Transwomen are NOT drag queens! Drag Queens are mostly gay men who only occasionally dress up in women’s attire for entertainment or self-promotional purposes.
Next, let’s talk about the environment in which we live. We mentioned some of this in our previous blogs, but we can now add substantially to it. WE LIVE IN A CHEMICAL AND ELECTRONIC SOUP! Where do you think those soundwaves and electronic signals go? Just to your radio or cellphone? No, they are everywhere all the time, you just can’t see them. There have been questions about sleeping under an electric blanket or holding the cell phone too close to your head and name a dozen more concerns that literally hang in the air with no definitive answers. There is much we don’t know, mostly because manufactures don’t want anyone to look under their rugs for crap. Just ask the tobacco industry when they learned that nicotine was a carcinogen. How many people paid the price of an early painful death because of hidden facts? Turn any TV on and you will see ads talking about the harmful effects of certain chemicals. Man created years ago a wonderful produce call Asbestos. Now we are dealing with Mesothelioma. If you spent time at Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps Base, you may have cancer because of fuel leaks that contaminated the water supply there. The weed killer Roundup manufactured by Monsanto contains glyphosate, a possible carcinogen, and can give exposed individuals Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma or other cancers. How about a recent article in People magazine (April 15, 2024) that talks about long-term health concerns over nano plastics found in bottled water. And long before any of these, consider the impacts of radiation poisoning because of wonderful nuclear atom bombs. What about the effects of DDT, DDE, and dioxins, all of them being estrogenic chemicals. In our previous blog series, we had already discussed the effects of DES (Diethylstilbestrol), developed in 1938, a synthetic hormone given to millions of women between 1945 and 1970 in vitamins (reference our blog on May 29, 2022). It was even in animal feed, and its effects are being felt generations later. How about all those vitamins and drugs in our marketplace? For the vast majority, we have no idea how they interact when taken together. Some of the warnings for new medicines advertised on TV have warnings in fine print at the bottom of the screen that are as long as a two-mile freight train, and some say, “could cause death”. Well, kill me now! We hear you yelling, “STOP!”, because you get the point. In how much of any of this do you find personal immunity? But there is one more we want to share that also specifically addresses the trans issue.
The following paragraphs, some of it in quotes, comes from a report broadcast on the show “Full Measure”, with Sharly Attkisson, on January 13, 2024. The topic was “Scientific Research Links Water Contamination to Sex Changes in Animals.” Part of the broadcast centered around a product called “ATRAZINE”, a St. Augustine Weed Killer, used on crops and often found in drinking water. “We showed that Atrazine de-masculinized animals as well as feminized animals.” “Genetic males actually transformed into females.” “We begin today with the disturbing scientific saga that demonstrates how far some will go to control what version of science gets told and how that can factor into emerging trends in human sexuality,” 25 years ago, a researcher stumbled across an important piece of the puzzle, but powerful forces have worked to silence and smear him, making it harder to get at the facts all these years later when they could matter the most. Tyrone Hays, at the University of California, Berkley lab, is a Professor of Integrated Biology (a Developmental Endocrinologist). His interest is the role of hormones regulating development. He worked for Novartis, a chemical giant, in 1998. He was contracted to see if Atrazine, an herbicide, somehow interfered with hormonal regulation of development. Atrazine is used on corn crops, sugar cane, pineapples, sorghum, macadamia nuts, and evergreen tree farms. Atrazine is one of the most common contaminates in America’s drinking water. At the time, it was Novartis’s #1 selling agrichemical product. He found that when the chemical was found in genetic male frogs, instead of developing testis, that aspect was inhibited, and often times frogs developed ovaries and transformed into females. A certain type of larynx, or voice box, for attracting females was also inhibited.
He was prevented by his contract from publishing his work. He became uncomfortable with some of the things the company was asking him to do, interpretations and manipulations of the data. He repeated the work without their funding to have freedom to publish and discuss his work outside his lab and university. He found similar findings in species other than frogs. Some developed hermaphroditism, developing both male testis and female ovaries, when exposed to values far below what the EPA said was safe for people to drink. He soon began to feel like he was Novartis’s public enemy #1. Later, Novartis spun off its agrichemical business, and Atrazine, to China owned Syngenta. Syngenta published ways to discredit Hays, including investigating his wife, and manipulating social media search engines. Hays said his life was a living hell. They had plans to harass and pursue his students and family.
The EPA decided to “kick the can down the road” for 20 years, as the company raked in billions. In 2020 the EPA made its decision. “Atrazine is likely to effect 54% of all species, and 42% of all critical habitats.” The same year, EPA re-registered Atrazine for use. Hays published one paper, with 22 co-authors from 12 countries, that Atrazine was a reproductive toxin to fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and rodents. Other studies have seen correlation with human cell lines with adverse effects, including breast and prostate cancer, low sperm count, and a variety of different birth defects. “WHY” have we not learned of this sooner? Because big lobby and industry have a big influence over decisions like the ones the EPA has to make.
Today, the CDC says Atrazine can alter “the way that the reproductive system works”, may “increase . . . the risk of pre-term delivery”, may be linked to “some types of cancer”, “cause liver, kidney, and heart damage in animals” and “could cause these effects in humans”. When pregnant women are exposed to Atrazine in drinking water, it’s “associated with low fetal weight and heart, urinary, and limb defects”. High levels in pregnant animals caused “reduced survival of fetuses”. Hays says, “The sex and gender identity and sexual orientation and preference are in part controlled by hormonal influences early in development in the womb. We know this for example that your relative exposure to androgens and estrogens and other steroids may shape the brain that later determines those things. There are also genetic and social and other environmental influences as well. That all being said, [it’s] very likely that chemicals like Atrazine . . . can influence your hormonal balance, and we know it does so in humans, that that potentially can influence things like sex or gender identity and orientation.”
Studies like Hays’s may never be funded or at least published. There are like 80,000 human made chemicals in the world, and most of them have not been studied to the level that Atrazine has. Most of the other compounds used in agriculture we know nothing about what they do. Attkisson said, “We couldn’t find anybody publicly studying the impact of Atrazine or any other chemical or pharmaceutical product on transgender trends.”
We conclude with the question, “WHY” are we not looking for answers, and finding out “WHY” some things are as they are? We will once again mention the joke we told during our series of TRANSPHOBIA blogs. “Two men were walking home one night, and one of them dropped his keys. The one that dropped the keys walked over to a streetlight and began looking for them there. The other man asked why he was over there, because they were never over by that streetlight. The man that dropped his keys said, “Well, the light is better over here.” Sometimes we find it easier to not search in the hard places. That takes time and effort. It is so much easier to simply repeat what we have heard about trans people. “WHY” are gay people gay? “WHY” are lesbian people lesbian? We have taken sides in those debates just assuming that that’s just the way it is without ever seeking the answer to the question, “WHY” It’s time to start answering the question as to “WHY” transpeople are trans. Let’s use our FREEDOM and LIBERTY in our Nation to start looking in the hard places rather than being so quick to judge and condemn.