Am I a Girl or a Boy?

(Wall Street International)*— This conversation is not an easy one and I ask you all to bear with me as I open a subject that seems if not politically incorrect, at least forbidden in polite company…

Some of you may not have even heard it; others may have firm and serious opinions… It involves individual choice, once a basic American principle that has morphed into the extreme control over our lives of late stage capitalism.

For the sources of control of almost any fad or issue, just follow the money, if you are not doing so already.

To make sure we are all on the same page I want to underline the difference between gender and transgender. We all are assigned a gender at birth and it is based upon what sex we seem to be. Mistakes are made, but how many?

According to the latest statistics, 700,000 individuals identify as transgender in the U.S. alone. They have no doubt that they were born into the wrong body and most will undergo hormone treatment and surgery to right that wrong.

This is a new cultural development, although small numbers of these surgeries have been done at Johns Hopkins and Stanford University since the mid-1960’s. Christine Jorgenson was a cultural phenomenon when she went to Denmark for the surgery.

This is now a movement, a cultural phenomenon that can be decided by young children with parental permission of course. In all the articles we see, the parents are happily giving permission and delighted to indulge their children. The son becomes adaughter; the daughter a son and everyone lives happily after.

This cultural movement has followed very quickly upon the acceptance in many places of gay marriage. I do not think it is connected biologically, being in the wrong body vs. sexual attraction. Yet we do not have enough research to answer that question.

In fact, we do not have enough long term research to answer many of the question concerning feminism and gender vs. transgender. It is more of a medical than a gender issue and is being run largely by psychiatrists and other medical doctors such as surgeons and endocrinologists.

I was one of the early feminist psychologists who brought forth the term “gender”[1] in order to distinguish what was learned, even unconsciously, from what was determined genetically. That was an enormous first step, as every aspect of a human being was believed to be tied to sex.