Are we causing people to become transgender?

[Scooby]

I watched a documentary about transgender people yesterday. It was amazing to me how many people are born one sex, but for some reason feel that nature itself was wrong when it chose their gender. Everything inside them tells them they are not what they should be.

I wonder, with the increase in people feeling this way, what is causing this? What would cause so many people to go so far as to surgically alter themselves to a different sex? I am just thinking, maybe this is all stemming from the high amounts of chemicals and hormones we are all subjected to on a regular basis? Maybe it is screwing up our genetic makeup? Chemicals are stored in your fat cells sometimes forever. Think about this... our animal food products are pumped full of antibiotics, steroids, estrogen, and other chemicals to improve production. Our plant food products go through the same things. When we consume the animal/plant products, we consume all of the drugs and chemicals that organism consumed or absorbed. So take a mother who drinks milk, eats meat, and eats veggies that have been grown with pesticides. She thinks she is having a healthy diet, but all those chemicals and hormones are being passed on to her unborn baby. Those added hormones/chemicals can effect the development of that baby. What is that is having some effect on all the mental and sexual issues that people are having today? I am certain it does.

Has anyone ever considered that maybe the long term effects of women taking birth control is having an effect on our reproductive and growth processes?

I think we are doing this to ourselves. I think it's us, humans, that is the problem.

[CarolineWH]

Originally Posted by Scooby

I watched a documentary about transgender people yesterday. It was amazing to me how many people are born one sex, but for some reason feel that nature itself was wrong when it chose their gender. Everything inside them tells them they are not what they should be.

I wonder, with the increase in people feeling this way, what is causing this? What would cause so many people to go so far as to surgically alter themselves to a different sex? I am just thinking, maybe this is all stemming from the high amounts of chemicals and hormones we are all subjected to on a regular basis? Maybe it is screwing up our genetic makeup? Chemicals are stored in your fat cells sometimes forever. Think about this... our animal food products are pumped full of antibiotics, steroids, estrogen, and other chemicals to improve production. Our plant food products go through the same things. When we consume the animal/plant products, we consume all of the drugs and chemicals that organism consumed or absorbed. So take a mother who drinks milk, eats meat, and eats veggies that have been grown with pesticides. She thinks she is having a healthy diet, but all those chemicals and hormones are being passed on to her unborn baby. Those added hormones/chemicals can effect the development of that baby. What is that is having some effect on all the mental and sexual issues that people are having today? I am certain it does.

Has anyone ever considered that maybe the long term effects of women taking birth control is having an effect on our reproductive and growth processes?

I think we are doing this to ourselves. I think it's us, humans, that is the problem.

70% Of Middle Age Women Are Depressed....Suicide Is Up 0.7% From 1999 To 2005.... This was the headlines on AOL on October 21st....

This was the subject of a blog that I did....I go a step farther....I believe this is the cause of the depression in women at mid-life and earlier....We feed our young daughters birth control pills not knowing what harm these pills will have on them as they age.....Lest I forget, how much harm will they have on us as we age....How about depression? Illness? Lack of sexual want for a man?

Why is it after menopause that this woman is so much more in sexual want than she was before? Could it be because she has finally rid her body of birth control pills? Could they have inhibited her and helped ruin her marriage instead of helping her with not getting pregnant? I believe there is far more in back of this than meets the eye.....But then I have a big mouth and state what I feel.....

[avorrgorrus]

Sex changes go back to the ancient days also.

It isn't really anything bad, people are going to feel how they feel.

What is important about being human, is to love yourself, and love others.

[avorrgorrus]

I think nature, and human behavior causes transgender.

Ever hear of hermaphrodites?

Also, look into african bull frogs, the females who experience a natural sex change.

Many males of species give birth to live young also.

I would say GMO effects everyone, not just the gay or transgendered.