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>From: wendy@sundown.mil.wi.us (Wendy)

>This is an interesting topic. I'm a Transexual in a gender transition
>program. I have always believed I was in the wrong body. Someone played
>a cruel joke on me!!! 

>Now, whether it's biological or social, with me it would be hard to
>say. My mother and aunt (her twin) treated and dressed me as a girl for
>the first couple of years of my life.

>Another pre-op that I know had parents that were just the opposite, 
>treating her in a highly masculine way when she was a small boy. We
>both have the same feelings, but were brought up in entirely different
>ways. So maybe it's a combination.

>Wendy

   Recent tests show that when the average Japanese person hears a 
bird singing, the portion of his brain becomes active which most
scientist feel is associated with music. In Americans, the same song
illicits activity in the part of the brain associated with noise. 
Tests indicate that this brain wiring is learned, not genetic. In
other words, learning change brain physiology, the two are inseper-
able.          

   Equally valid research shows that identical twins lead amazingly
similar lives. Even twins separated at birth. This suggests a very
powerful underlying genetic predisposition towards becoming the  
people we are. I'm sure we've all read studies about prenatal effects
on developing human beings.

   I totally agee with Wendy, our conscious expression is the sum of 
our experiences, but our ground of being shapes those experiences from
the day of birth. Under it all there is proclivity, the tendency for
us to become what we will. As the experiences of our lives rain down
upon us, the moments of our lives erode our tendencies into solid 
nature, we become who we are from the living process.

  Sometimes it is pointless to theorize whether it was the small 
fissure that originally drew the water, or the water itself, that made
the canyon. In the end we are left with what IS, and we must simply
appreciate it that and nothing more.
 


Your mileage may vary, Marie ;-) 


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