Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Just as we have compassion for the other sexual preferences such as LGBT, we also must remember that Dennis has his own demons to deal with and has
been diagnosed with Bipolar disorder that he has freely admitted here on this board. Since I have seen him be supportive of gays, one can speculate
that because of the holidays, Dennis is going through something we can only read about in textbooks. Just as he can be up and positive, funny and
witty, he has his dark days and it may come across as mean and spiteful but it can be depression and darkness. We all have up and down days but a
person with bipolar disorder has extreme lows and extreme highs. And so, as we support Dennis here and enjoy his entertainment on his "good" days, we
need to understand that he has very "bad" days as well. | Quote: | Originally posted by motoged
Dennis,
You have not been convicted by anyone but yourself. Your opinions expressed are your :"convictions" that you proudly stand behind/in front of. It is
not a legal issue but, rather, is one of beliefs:
Good Doctor,
I appreciate your sharing with us your knowledge about how mood can affect our experience of the world and our communication with others.
You wrote "Just as we have compassion for the other sexual preferences such as LGBT".
Your comment expresses the very reason why I am engaged in public education about the Complexity of Gender. I appreciate your compassion and believe
that we all should have more of that!
You state that LGBT is a "preference". In doing so you demonstrate a lack of perspective that is endemic in the Health, Mental Health and General
Public as to the etiology of Gender. In my Professional education and training no one put this together for me either. You are not alone. I am not
critical of you, it is just clear to me that, like most of us in the helping professions, we have not been exposed to an integration in our
understanding of the biological underpinnings of gender.
The classic Nature/Nurture debate has three basic branches; Cultural/Religious, Psychological and Biological.
Cultural/Religious and Psychological perspectives have had the main stage through out history.
From your medical experience I think that you would agree that human beings are not homogenous. There is tremendous diversity built into our biology.
Our skin colors are not the same, we have different pigmentation. Our hormones are not the same, you test for them in certain cases. Our genitals are
not all the same, you have seen this with your own eyes. Our internal organs are not all the same, you have also seen this with your own eyes. Our
genotypic composition is not the same. We know that there are "male" and "female" brains. We also know that there are large variations in the various
structures that make up "male" and "female" brains.
From a Biological perspective the first month of our gestation we are all female. It is only after androgenization by testosterone, the precursors of
which are found in the Y chromosome, that our external and internal sex organs and brains differentiate, out of the same tissues, into a spectrum of
male/female brains, external and internal sex organs.
I think that the implications of this are significant when discussing Gender. Again I am happy to present in depth on this topic to any group that may
have interest in learning more about this fascinating subject.
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