Science and Sexuality: The Biology of Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Intersexuality.

The Biblical Adam and Eve story is BAD BIOLOGY! The binary sexual system is unnatural. Here you can learn the scientific story of sexuality from a physiologist's perspective. How many sexes are there? What exactly is a female? A male? Is intersexuality natural? What is known about the biology of sexual identity? Sexual orientation? WHAT ARE THE POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS OF THESE FINDINGS?

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Proposition 8

The insanity of prejudice!

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c0cf508ff8/prop-8-the-musical-starring-jack-black-john-c-reilly-and-many-more-from-fod-team-jack-black-craig-robinson-john-c-reilly-and-rashida-jones
Posted by Veronica Drantz, PhD at 11:56 PM No comments:
Labels: homophobia

Beyond Gay & Straight - Muxes of Mexico

"Muxe" is a zapotec word pronounced Moo-shay
See a slide show about the muxes of Mexico and read comments from their parents.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/weekinreview/07lacey.html?_r=1
Posted by Veronica Drantz, PhD at 11:31 PM No comments:
Labels: transsexuality/FtM/MtF
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SLIDESHOW plus VIDEO

MYTH & SCIENCE OF SEXUALITY - Disordered or Just Different? Look at the slides while you listen to the presentation in the video. It's better than being there!

BLOG ARCHIVE

*Slideshow with Audio: GENDER BINARY AND LGBTI PEOPLE - MYTH AND MEDICAL MALPRACTICE (5/13/12)
*INTERSEX STORIES: Alex & Mugsie (5/9/12)
*GENDER BINARY & LGBTI PEOPLE: Myth and Medical Malpractice (two April venues) (4/3/12)
*INTERSEX LIVES: Issues and Personal Stories (2/13/12)
*INTERSEX CHICAGO - New Group at Center on Halsted (11/29/11)
*SLIDESHOW - INTERSEX PEOPLE: What You Should Know and Why You Should Care! (6/17/11)
*INTERSEX PEOPLE: What You Should Know & Why You Should Care! (A New Presentation) (5/7/11)
*RECOVERING THE PAST: A “WESTERN” LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, & QUEER HISTORY (Slideshow) (3/27/11)
*First Presentation to a Religious Group – Seminar or Sermon? (2/20/11)
*VIDEO and SLIDES: Myth & Science of Sexuality - Disordered or Just Different? (12/15/10)
*"Disordered or Just Different" Presentation at Chicago's LGBT Center (8/17/10)
*PowerPoint Slideshow: "Disordered or Just Different? Myth, Science, and Sexuality." (7/26/10)
*MichFest Workshop Challenges Womyn-Born-Womyn Policy and Medical Practices: “Disordered or Just Different?” (7/18/10)
*“Disordered or Just Different” presentation at National Women’s Music Festival (6/28/10)
*SIGN the Condemnation of the anti-LGBTI "Manhattan Declaration" (5/12/10)
*New Presentation: “Disordered or Just Different? Myth, Science, and Sexuality” (3/16/10)
*"Science and Sexuality" Presentation to LBTQ Women of Chicago (2/27/10)
*LGBT Informational Picket at Holy Name Cathedral on Valentine's Day (02/14/10)
*Anti-Gay Catholic Hierarchy Confronted by LGBT Activists on Both Sides of the Ocean (2/12/10)
*Picket Anti-Gay Cardinal George on Freedom-To-Marry-Day! (02/6/10)
*"Science and Sexuality" Presentation at the LGBT Center of SE Wisconsin (11/2/09)
*Picketing Obama & National Equality March for GLBT Civil Rights in All Fifty States - My Photos (10/13/09)
*Gay Liberation Network's message to Democrats: Don't count on GLBT support anymore! (10/13/09)
*Chicago’s Gay Liberation Network will picket Obama at Human Rights Campaign Fundraiser (10/06/09)
*Call for a Pro-LGBT Picket of the White House (9/18/09)
*British Prime Minister Issues Posthumous Apology To Alan Turing (9/11/09)
*The GLBT March On Washington for Equality Across America (9/9/09)
*Ending Professional Bigotry Against Transsexual People (8/30/09)
*Alan Turing – Gay Genius Who Changed the Course of History Was Hounded To His Death (8/17/09)
*Intersex People – Disordered or Different? The DSD Debate (7/29/09)
*Milton Diamond Reviews a Half Century of Science on Sexual Development (7/29/09)
*“Gender Puzzle” – What is a female? a male? 7/26/09)
*“Science and Sexuality” Presentation at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (7/24/09)
*Five Genders of Indonesia (7/10/09)
*Sexual Development Determined “In Utero” By Two Independent Programs of Sex-Chromosomes and Androgen Influence (7/7/09)
*“Science and Sexuality” Presentation at National Women’s Music Festival (6/28/09)
*Chaz Bono Was Never a Lesbian (6/27/09)
*Same-Sex Behavior Found in Nearly All Animals (6/20/09)
*Transsexuals versus the World Health Organization and the ICD (6/19/09)
*Transsexuals versus the American Psychiatric Association (6/12/09)
PowerPoint Slides "Science and Sexuality" (6/5/09) Ten Parts:
*1 How Many Sexes Are There?
*2 The Sexual Brain
*3 Sex Hormones
*4 Female, Male, Chromosomal Intersex Conditions
*5 Androgen Insensitivity
*6 Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
*7 Cloacal Exstrophy, DES treatment
*8 Biology of Sexual Identity
*9 Biology of Sexual Orientation
*10 My Sexuality Model and the Drantz Hypothesis
*My Letter to American Psychiatric Association regarding the 5th Edition of DSM (6/2/09)
*Sexual Identity is Biological and Innate (4/29/09)
*Intermediate States of Sexuality: Intersexuality, Blended Sexual Identity, & Bisexuality (1/21/09)
*Sexual Diversity Award (12/31/08)
*46XY/45XO Turner’s Mosaic Hermaphrodite (12/30/08)
*Heterosexuals Need Defense from “Gender Theories" (12/27/08)
*“Should Doctors Still Consider Transsexuals to Be Suffering a ‘Disorder’?” (12/19/08)
*7yr. Old Jazz’s Thoughts on Being a Transsexual Child (12/18/08)
*Zucker, Blanchard, Bailey: Travesty of Science & Medicine (12/18/08)
*Transsexual Children – Out of the Shadows (12/18/08)
*Proposition 8 (12/14/08)
*Beyond Gay & Straight – Muxes of Mexico (12/14/08)
*Special Presentation At Center For Inquiry (10/28/08)
*Confusion about Sexual Orientation versus Sexual Identity! (8/25/08)
*“Gendercator” Screening & Panel Discussion (8/24/08)

Hillary's United Nations speech

Hillary's United Nations speech
"...our family, our friends, and our neighbors"

GLBT Legal Status - Worldwide


Great WORLD MAPS - 14 themes regarding GLBT Rights

INTERSEX

An Intersex Manifesto

ARE TRANSSEXUALS CRAZY?

Sexual identity - innate or learned? Watch the TV program.

TRANSSEXUAL BASICS

See this excellent 14 part Video Series on COMING OUT as a transsexual. This is what the family and friends should watch!

MALES WHO ARE WOMEN!

See this video about the Fa'afafine of Samoa who are males biologically but women culturally.



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Veronica Drantz, PhD
Chicago, IL, United States
Biologist/Physiologist, Science Educator and Public Speaker. (nature-nut, science geek, LGBTI activist, the L in LGBTI, atheist, secular humanist, passionate about what I do, very young for my age, earthling, citizen of the world)
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Me - about 5 yrs old (right)

Me - about 5 yrs old (right)
Oh, wow, she has her arm around me!

Growing Up Lesbian

What's the story behind the above photo? Read my childhood story at the Born This Way blog. See my childhood photos.

This Blog is Professional and Political and Personal

This blog and my PowerPoint presentation of the same title ("Science & Sexuality") are ongoing labors of love in which my professional life as a biologist/physiologist and my political and personal life as a lesbian come together in a meaningful way.

My Presentation - A Review

"She made a compelling case for atypical sexuality being a normal part of the gender spectrum, warranting greater efforts by society to embrace all people as they are. "

Gay Liberation Network

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Why We Should Study Homosexual and Transsexual People*



Here’s how I see it. Even if the researchers themselves only wanted to understand the biological basis of homosexuality, the data obtained would tell us much more. If we know the “cause” of homosexuality, then we also know the “cause” of heterosexuality. Comparing the physiology of “gay brains” to “straight brains” allows us to better understand both. There was a time when many people assumed that there was no other “biological” possibility than heterosexuality – that no particular brain structures or functions were involved in sexual orientation per se. Now it is generally agreed that different sexual orientations result from brain differences and furthermore, that those brain differences are innate. This is a major leap in understanding. If the research indicates that homosexuality is not a choice, then it also indicates that heterosexuality is not a choice. Everyone’s sexual orientation has a genetic, anatomical, and physiological basis. The research objective is to understand the biology of sexual orientation – in anybody and everybody, not only gay people. And not just people either – the other mammals too. Sexuality is ancient. The hypothalamic and limbic brain regions involved in sexual behavior are far more ancient than people and are likely much the same in all mammals. So the study of gay and lesbian people is basic biology.

Additionally, by comparing transsexual brains to typical brains, we can eventually understand the neuroscience of sexual identity and know the anatomical and physiological basis of a person’s sexual sensibility of self, whether female, male, or intersex in identity. Once more, the objective is to understand the biology of sexual identity in all people, and likely other mammals as well. Again, this is biology, and it is why the study of innate “core sexuality” is so fascinating to me.
*This essay was originally written by me as a comment to a post on another blog.

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