For Pansy...

thank you, thank you,, I try

ya know, sometimes I dont feel so tall, but they still dont let me ride the kiddy rides.. it says 'this tall',, period,,,

Well as I mentioned before Ontario is initiating a sex ed curriculum that includes

DETAILS OF ONTARIO'S CONTROVERSIAL SEX-ED CURRICULUM

Lessons begin on gender identity and sexual orientation. That also includes lessons on respecting differences in cultural values, beliefs and family background.

Students will discuss negative stereotypes, including assumptions about gender roles, sexual orientation, gender expression, race and sexual health. Students will also learn how to make decisions that reflect respect for others and about building healthy relationships. Teacher prompts regarding masturbation are also included in the curriculum — for cases in which students ask about the subject.


regarding bathrooms I as a parent I probably would have went with a private bathroom.

since gender vs sex is such a complicated issue now,,,,perhaps we should just change the names on the bathroom from womens and mens , to PENIS STALLs, and VAGINA STALLS

bathrooms are built around the 'exterior',, the anatomy being used,,

if you have a penis,, you should go where it was built for penis
if you have a vagina , you should go where it was built for vaginas

I dont know why people complicate things

Causes of Gender Dysphoria


By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD

Gender dysphoria usually means a difficulty in identifying with the biological sex in an individual.
The causes of gender dysphoria are not fully clear.
Psychiatric and biological causes
It was traditionally thought to be a psychiatric condition meaning a mental ailment. Now there is evidence that the disease may not have origins in the brain alone.
Studies suggest that gender dysphoria may have biological causes associated with the development of gender identity before birth.
More research is needed before the causes of gender dysphoria can be fully understood.
Genetic causes of biological sex
Research suggests that development that determines biological sex happens in the mother’s womb.
Anatomical sex is determined by chromosomes that contain the genes and DNA.
Each individual has two sex chromosomes. One of the chromosomes is from the father and the other from the mother.
A normal man has an X and a Y sex chromosome and a normal woman has two X chromosomes.
It is seen that during early pregnancy, all unborn babies are female because only the female sex chromosome (or the X chromosome) that is inherited from the mother being the active one.
After the eighth week of pregnancy, the chromosome from the father (an X for a female and a Y for the male), gains in activity.
If the father’s contribution is the X chromosome the baby continues to develop as female with a surge of female hormones.
This helps develop her female sex organs, reproductive organs and features. This makes her sex and gender female.
If the inherited chromosome from the father is a Y there is a surge of testosterone and other male hormones that lead to development of male characteristics, such as testes.
This makes the baby’s sex and gender male. (1)
Causes of gender differences
There are several different potential causes of gender differences, these include hormonal changes, exposure to estrogenic drugs and so forth. (1-4)
Hormonal causes
Hormones that trigger the development of sex and gender in the womb may not function adequately.
For example, anatomical sex from the genitals may be male, while the gender identity that comes from the brain could be female.
This may result from the excess female hormones from the mother’s system or by the foetus’s insensitivity to the hormones.
The latter condition is called androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS).
Exposure to progesterone or other estrogenic drugs
Although there is no research that shows that males or females exposed to progesterone in the womb or other estrogenic drugs, such as diethylstilbestrol (DES) may have a raised risk of gender dysphoria; there may be an association in some atypical aspects of gender role behavior.
Rare conditions that may lead to gender dysphoria
There may be rare conditions like congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), and intersex conditions (also known as hermaphroditism) which may also result in gender dysphoria.
In CAH a female foetus has adrenal glands (small caps of glands over the kidneys) that produce high level of male hormones. This enlarges the female genitals and the female baby may be confused with a male at birth.
Intersex conditions mean babies may be born with the genitalia of both sexes. In these cases the child is allowed to grow and choose his or her own before any surgery is carried out to confirm it.

Here is also an article on the side effects of prescription drugs during pregnancy

Prescription drugs and pregnancy.

Webster WS1, Freeman JA.



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Abstract

Prescribing drugs in pregnancy is an unusual risk-benefit situation. Drugs that may be of benefit or even life-saving to the mother can deform or kill the fetus. However, the risk to the fetus should not be exaggerated. There are only approximately 20 drugs or groups of drugs which are known to cause birth defects in humans. For one of these drugs to cause birth defects, a number of criteria must be fulfilled. The drug exposure must take place at a critical stage of pregnancy and the dose must be high enough to cause a threshold of exposure for an appropriate duration of time. For most of the known human teratogens, > 90% of pregnancies exposed during the first trimester result in normal offspring. Although only a few drugs are known to cause birth defects in humans, uncertainty about the safety of the majority may lead to underprescribing for pregnant women and women of childbearing age. Epidemiological studies of pregnancy outcome after specific drug exposures are often superficially reassuring, but most are severely limited in their power to detect adverse outcomes. Safety in animal studies may also be reassuring but species differences demand caution in this interpretation. Concerns about prescription drugs in the first trimester, when they can cause birth defects, are mostly quite different to concerns about use in the second and third trimesters. As the fetal organ systems mature, the fetus can be affected by the pharmacological activity of the drug in the same way as the mother. Many drugs have pharmacological effects on the fetus in the second and third trimesters but in most cases, they are well recognised and can be managed or avoided. The material presented in this paper is mostly concerned with the 'risks' associated with drugs in pregnancy. No attempt has been made to quantitate the possible benefits to the mother or fetus. Communicating the risk-benefit situation to the patient is always a challenge for physicians with limited time and sometimes limited knowledge. Fear of litigation is an unfortunate and an unwanted parameter in the assessment. Better knowledge of the parameters that determine teratogenicity may allow physicians to feel more confident in assessing the risks and benefits associated with prescribing in pregnancy.


PMID: 12783591 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Usually, kids get genital organs that correlate with that gender, which is finished looooong before the body only starts developing (during pregnancy).

When something goes wrong, causing a mutation or a genetic mistake, a child who's brain is female gets male organs, or the opposite.

The brain can't be changed: the gender of the child is the very first thing that gets determined, at the second of its conception, depending on the spermcell of the father.

Feelings or emotions have absolutely nothing to do with this problem: it is genetic, not mental, and certainly not "emotional".

....a penis does not make a man, a uterus does not make a woman. Your gender is in your brain, not between your legs, and neither are anybody's. Life is not that simple.

i remember some kind of Fatwa being Issued about when they are not on their homeland, they can follow another religion, but they have to switch back when they get home.

If you choose to rule your own behaviour by having morals (that you have figured out through trial and error work for you as a person) you are then considered to be judgemental, on your high horse, think you are better/morally superior than others?
If you have little restraint on your behaviour, (you have not thought too much on the impact of your behaviour), you are a bad person, morally bankrupt and will probably end up in jail.
Where is the middle road, or is there not one?

Martens recognizes that some convert in order to improve their chances of staying in Germany -- but for the pastor motivation is unimportant.

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Meanwhile, as other churches across Germany struggle with dwindling numbers of believers, Martens has seen his congregation swell from 150 just two years to more than 600 parishioners now