Human Genetics vs. Mental Health (Gender, Lies, and Money)

A May 8, 2023, article in The Epoch Times reported that the 3 major North Carolina medical schools (Duke, UNC, and ECU) were performing transgender procedures on toddlers. This news is an appalling representation of the nefarious depths some of those in our society have probed. How far down the hole of ignorance have people slid? It is very difficult to understand how our society can accept such practices as legitimate, appropriate, or even needed.

These activities indicate profound ignorance regarding the nature of gender. Humans and all life forms have some form of gender. In fact, some species demonstrate multiple variations with respect to gender. Humans, however, only have two genders, defined as male (with XY chromosomes in all nucleated cells) and female (with XX chromosomes in all nucleated cells).

Individuals claiming to be an alternate gender from the one their biology has provided do have a serious problem. However, the problem is not in their genes or their anatomy. Their mind and its psychological function are the source of their disorder. For some reason, their brain is not functioning in a way that is consistent with their biology.

I vividly recall an experience during my psychiatry rotation in medical school. There was a patient on our service whose psychosis was that he believed his head had been chopped off at the neck. When we rounded on him, he was almost always propped up on the left side of his bed looking over its edge at the floor below where his imagined head lay looking up at him. He would even become extremely agitated if anyone stepped anywhere near its apparent location, which no one else could see because it actually wasn’t there.

If physicians and society addressed his problem as many are currently addressing gender dysphoria, he would have been beheaded so that his body matched his perception of his body. How would that action have been received by society? I suspect it would have led to long term imprisonment if not a life sentence for the perpetrators.

One of the important consequences of those individuals who have undergone transgender surgery is that they can no longer procreate. (Of course, that could be beneficial for our species as it could ultimately eliminate those individuals who possess this psychological aberrancy.)

When an individual claims that he or she is in the wrong body and identifies as the opposite gender, such a condition should be recognized for the psychiatric malady it is. There are a large number of terms that have been used to classify the various types of gender dysphoria that have been identified.

Genital mutilation on extremely young children makes about as much sense as putting them through basic infantry training or teaching them how to apply makeup. They are simply not mature enough to comprehend the issues involved. It can easily be argued that physicians and medical centers are performing these unethical procedures because of the substantial financial reimbursement available. The per-episode payer costs of gender-affirming surgeries have been reported to range from $6,927 for orchiectomy, $45,080 for vaginoplasty, and $63,432 for phalloplasty.¹

On April 3, 2024, the New York Post ran a headline stating, “Bearded trans athlete who injured rival was suspended from rowing team for ogling topless girl in changing room”. This incident underscores the key fallacy in the transgender movement. Would a true female (i.e., with “XX” chromosomes in every nucleated cell) be ogling other topless women in a changing room?

Of course not. While I am not a woman, I suspect that true XX women do not ogle each other’s breasts in changing rooms. I know that true XY men do not ogle each other’s external genitalia in changing rooms.

What was not acknowledged in the New York Post article was that the reason the bearded trans athlete was ogling the women’s breasts was due to the influence of his male hormones circulating in his bloodstream. The concept that he still had male hormones in his bloodstream is supported by the fact that he still had a beard. Those male hormones function to stimulate sexual arousal in the male for the purpose of procreation and continuation of the species.

Another important aspect to consider is the fact that after gender transitional surgery has been performed, those individuals can no longer procreate. Males who have transitioned have lost their testicles as well as their penis. Women who have transitioned have lost their ovaries, uterus, fallopian tubes, and breasts.

Of course, all life on earth consists of plants and animals that reproduce in order to continue their respective species. Without reproduction, the species would become extinct. Thus, so-called transgender individuals are no longer part of the continuum of life for the human species. After all, we define women as the gender that incubates fetuses in their womb. And men are defined as the gender that inseminates those wombs. Transgender individuals of both types (he->she and she->he) cannot inseminate a woman or give birth. Thus, their value to our species is nil.

Is it really a paradigm shift for us to accept that we actually are a dioecious species? (And if you do not know what dioecious means, you should check it out in a dictionary.)

1. Baker K and Restar A: Utilization and Costs of Gender-Affirming Care in a Commercially Insured Transgender Population. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 50 (2022): 456-470.