"It's not natural"! Why are 21% of kids suddenly LGBTQ+?
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Female? No. Male (XY)? Sort of. Weigel is intersex (born in between with testes).
One's a man, two's a woman, and three's a, wait a minute. That first one's a... Hold on. Intersex activists Sean Saifa Wall, Alicia Roth Weigel, and River Gallo share their stories in the new documentary Every Body (Focus Features).
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It's not okay to be gay in Ukraine, not at all.
Know how we're all forced to say LGBTQIA+? Few people even know what that means.
For instance, the A is for asexual, a variable term ranging from psychological introvert to biologically damaged neutered person. What's the Q for? Betcha don't know. (Hint: It's not queer). Yes, it is! No, it's not; people just think it is. That would be redundant. It means "questioning."
That means you, Robby Joiner, are LGBTQ because remember when we were kids and you said you didn't know if you were straight? You questioned it (like everybody else in existence). Haha, you noncisgender warrior! That ought to teach you to throw rocks at Kevin. What's the I for?
Intersex specimens persons at the convention
It stands for intersex (a kind of hermaphroditic or ambiguous genitalia condition, a third sex -- neither strictly male nor female -- called pandaka in ancient Buddhist and Indian texts). So what if there are a few eccentric anomalies out there?
As an intersex individual, Alicia Roth Weigel (pictured above) knows that biological sex is more complicated than two boxes on a birth certificate.
"Intersex people are born with physical traits that don't fit neatly into a 'male' or 'female' box," Weigel says. "We have combinations of hormones, chromosomes, internal reproductive organs, external genitalia that just doesn't fit neatly on one of those two binary options that you were taught in elementary biology class are the only options."
Weigel, who identifies as she/they, was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome — a condition in which a person has both X and Y chromosomes but does not respond to male hormones [so is a male but isn't or at least doesn't look like one or express the customary phenotypic characteristics of one]. Though Weigel presented as female at birth, tests revealed that she lacked a uterus and ovaries, and that she had internal testes ["balls"]. More
Redheads don't seem completely human.
There are as manty intersex persons born as there are redheads (about 2%). That means more than two out of every hundred births are ambiguous or mixed, containing both features or neither. This is not transgenderism but an actual third presentation (phenotype with backing genotype).
What's the plus for? Whatever anyone likes, such as NAMBLA's entry MAPs ("minor attracted persons"), along with what perverted-academic Alfred Kinsey started in 1948:
This week: For the intersex community, Every. Body. exists on a [sexual, gendered] spectrum:
Alicia Roth Weigel is one of three activists profiled in Julie Cohen's new documentary. She says "intersex" is an umbrella term for people whose "anatomy doesn't fit super neatly into a binary box."
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The sinister reason companies are going woke (It’s not what you think!)
(Mark Moss) June 20, 2023. When beer company Bud Light made headlines for turning against their primary customer base, costing them billions in market valuation and plummeting sales, many people thought it was a huge mistake, a foolish blunder. It wasn't.
People assumed some low-level marketing team made a mistake, but then other companies began following suit.
Big box store Target went hard for the kids, then North Face, now [Christian Puritans] Chick-fil-A. So what is going on?
This video explains what's really motivating these companies. Everyone would be surprised it's not about the money. They don't care if they lose money, so boycotts won't work.
Let's look at who or what is pushing them, how another force is controlling corporations, and what can be done to turn the tide and stop being victims to their new agenda.
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"How many genders are there?": Sen. John Kennedy questions Human Rights Campaign Chief Robinson about gender
(Forbes Breaking News) June 21, 2023. At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (Republican, LA) questioned HRC Pres. Kelley Robinson.
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What's a "woman"?
Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Amber Larson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY
Hi. I'm a woman, I mean a geneticist.
That a dangerous question nowadays, politically fraught, a minefield. But we at Wisdom Quarterly do not mind answering it with scientifical accuracy. "Science" changes, but if what scientists have taught is true to this point (XY sex-determination system), then we can define womanhood as the presence of XY chromosomes. Manhood is XX.
See how the jaw is robust? That's nice, huh?
This brings up the sticky question of potential genetic anomalies: Do humans change? Are we born one way and stay that way. There are intersex beings between the sexes. There are masculine females and effeminate males. There may even be more "letters" than X and Y because apparently a Y is just an X with a broken X, the lower right foot missing. What then if some human beings are born with an X and a ~ (chromosomal foot or fragment)? Or another "letter"? Or neither? Or something completely different? Biological sex is tough, but it seems to be mutable.
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"Are you transphobic?": Sen. Mike Lee questions NCAA's Riley Gaines
(Forbes Breaking News) June 21, 2023
At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) spoke to Riley Gaines about the inclusion of transgender athletes women's sports. "Male gaze" is upsetting to biological female sports figures. Lia Thomas, "NCAA Woman of the Year," is excelling at the expense of athletes born female.
Gender is tougher. There is the genotypic and phenotypic distinction to be made -- what is in the genes (genotypic) and what is expressed (phenotypically). Gender is psychological and socially-constructed more than biological or biologically-determined.
No one may like to hear it, but Dr. Joseph Wallach (criticalhealhnews.com) has researched the matter and found that the increasing birth rate of transgender children is due to a nutritional deficiency in the mother during gestation. He has scientific evidence for this, but the LGBTQI+ community is not likely to be happy with such news. Pre-parents might like this news, but post-parents almost certainly will not. They'll say the mother is being blamed, as she was with SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), which Dr. Wallach cured by first discovering the nutritional deficiency that caused it then getting those nutrients into baby formulas.
What makes a person gay, bi, lesbian, homosexual, pansexual, trisexual (try sexual), nymphomaniacal, questioning, confused, malleable, situational, asexual...? It's not clear if Dr. Wallach has yet successfully researched that.
What does Buddhism say?
Fortunately, Buddhism has an answer as to what a "woman" is and what a "man" is -- and there may even be a third and fourth gender, if not more.
The personally verifiable answer to this is found in the Abhidhamma or the "Doctrine (Dhamma) in Ultimate Terms," a dense and profound work on ultimate reality in Buddhism.
Your own pronouns? Do I get my own adjectives?
What is ultimately real?
What is "truth" (sacca or satya)? The ultimate truth (paramattha-sacca) is distinguished from the conventional truth (vohāra-sacca). By distinguishing them one can learn to discern conventional mind-and-body (into ultimate nama-rupa, "name and form").
There's a level deeper than conventional truth, analogous to physics. If the conventional is psychological, at a deeper level there is the ultimate or physical: streams of cittas (which along with cetasikas, "mental concomitants," form the basis of Buddhist psychology) and streams of kalapas and their Four Elements (mahabhuta ordhatu, the Four Qualities of Matter, as distinct from the mind element).
Mind-moments and particles, these things are real. Through mental purification (visuddhi), one gains stillness/concentration (jhana) and is able to use this intensification of mind to discern the subtle and otherwise invisible: mind-moments and particles.
In so doing one becomes able to look at the characteristics of particles (kalapas), seeing them imbued with sex, biological sex. They do not have a gender, but they are imprinted with the biological sex (bhāva) of the person.
Come and see. This Doctrine and Discipline (dhamma-vinaya) called Buddhism invites investigation and personal verification.
Then enter the debate with the certainty to be able to answer, "What is a woman?" Can it change? We speculate that biology is malleable (phenotypic plasticity and genotypic plasticity) as, for instance, seen with the use of biohazardous pesticides and other chemical toxins in the environment, particularly endocrine disruptors, which affect human hormones. It turns out we share hormones with animals and plants and even the mushroom kingdom (e.g., Vitamin D, which can be considered a hormone, is made in the fruiting bodies of fungi exposed to sunlight).
What does it mean to be "transgender"?
- FU, mofos, don't you ask me nuthin!
Did ancient Buddhism have anything to say about gender?
In a word, yes. And that word is pandaka, an unflattering catch-all term for gender-role-transgressing individuals. That can include anything -- sex starved eunuchs resorting to homosexuality, hermaphrodites, gender nonconformists, crossdressers, transsexuals, butch and effeminate individuals, twin spirits, non-cisgender folks, gays, possibly even asexuals. The ancient world in and around what is now India, as known through the commentators, had their own explanations for such behavior. Sexual behavior falls along a spectrum, and deviating from the norm might earn one the label of pandaka or "pervert," particularly if one stood out. Dr. Kinsey may have done much to liberate modern thinkers from old norms, but he himself was almost certainly a pandaka dressed up in a scientific labcoat, promoted by academia, and accepted as positive cultural influence.
Kyle Macdonald, Capital XTRA, 11/29/19; CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Doja Cat explains "Juicy" to a classical music expert | Classical Kyle
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"A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows" - St. Francis of Assisi.
St. Francis and Buddhism
Our Buddhist novices are like little friars.
As Franciscans around the world commemorated the feast of St. Francis, [Friar] Stephen Lynch, OFM, who spent many years in the [East], wrote of the similar ideals and traditions of Franciscans and Buddhists.
That soldier is saving Issa from drowning.
He describes the self-giving and self-realization that are significant to both groups. The news of the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs brought attention to Buddhism, since it is said that the respected innovator and business leader found focus through that tradition.
St. Francis had in common with the Buddhists the importance of nonviolent love and commitment to peace, in practice as well as in theory.
PHOTO: A Theravada Buddhist monk admires Franciscan art of Issa on the cross as Buddhists and Franciscans build interreligious bridges (catholicphilly.com).
Both Francis and the Buddha were ascetics of deep prayer [meditation, contemplation, and jhana]. Tennyson, in The Death of Arthur, offers this marvelous piece of spiritual insight subscribed to by both Franciscans and Buddhists:
“More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.”
The Spanish call him San Francisco.
Prayer and work, nonviolent love, fasting, and detachment from the material world are integral to both Buddhist and Franciscan spirituality.
Francis condemned the Crusades [mass murder campaigns declared by the pope against Muslims] as being hungry for war and for the use of power to accomplish their goals for the "Holy" Land.
A famous Buddhist monk, Prof. Yokoi, rector of the Zen Buddhist Institute of Komazawa University in Tokyo, felt St. Francis of Assisi exemplified the three fundamental ideals of Buddhism.
Pope Francis honors the Buddha with Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monks (ivarfjeld.com)
Pope Francis makes Buddhist friends (cbc.ca)
He felt that St. Francis was a person without covetousness, without anger, and without delusion.
[The Three Poisons in Buddhism are greed, hatred/fear, and delusion. Therefore, nongreed, nonhatred/nonfear, and nondelusion are the three great ideals.]
I'll send you all loving kindness.
I first met Professor Yokoi when we were together on a five-week Tokyo TV series on religion. We were discussing the things Buddhism and Christianity have in common. I learned two aspects of Eastern religion that were new to me.
I had not realized that Buddhism felt strongly about the abiding presence of the Creator in all living things.
[NOTE: Buddhism does not in point of fact believe in "the Creator" although Maha Brahma, or the Great Supremo, is acknowledged as thinking s/he (brahmas or supreme-gods being neither male nor female but asexual) is that; the Buddha recognized that this brahma was not actually "the Creator" nor was there another.]
And also I had not realized the fact that, in Prof. Yokoi’s words, we are all brothers and sisters, sharing enlightenment from the same cosmic center of creation we Christians call God. [There is in Hindu-influenced Mahayana Buddhism an impersonal conception of GOD as Brahman, godhead, the Ultimate Truth behind the illusion of maya. That conception is beautiful but quite different than the generally accepted Christian view of a personal God.]
Revering all creatures
Thus have I heard. Bird is the word...
Francis intuitively sensed the indwelling of God in all things. [St. Francis more likely sensed the indwelling of GOD/Brahman in all things, GOD being the all, all of us and the universe collectively, our essential oneness and nonseparation.]
As such, each creature is worthy of reverence and became the object of St. Francis’ special courtesy and respect. Francis preached to the birds and animals as easily as he preached to his fellow human beings.
And his message was always the same: How wonderfully God [Brahman] blesses all creation; how all creation should respond to God’s love with praise, joy, and gratitude.
Contemplative Franciscans friars (fnp.org)
Prof. Yokoi told me he never went to Rome without also visiting Assisi (the birthplace of St. Francis), as he put it, “to breathe the air that gave the world a Francis of Assisi.”
Both Buddhism and Christianity insist that all creatures are worthy of reverence. For the “Little Poor Man of Assisi,” each creature in its own way bore the image of the Divine Presence.
Take this, Father. - Thank you, venerable sir.
St. Francis’ approach to perfection emphasized the indwelling of God in all things. God’s Providential Love for creation stands as the key to peaceful human relationships.
Buddhist spirituality supports the same message. [It sort of maybe does but not quite. Hinduism and Catholicism/Christianity have a great deal in common without knowing it]. More
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