XX or Should I say the Absence of Y

When I was a new nurse I was taught that when patient’s are having hallucinations that we should never indulge or confirm what they believe they think they’re seeing. In other words, do not affirm their delusions. We are taught to support the patient’s needs, provide a safe environment, but attempt to reorient the patient.

I was also taught in nursing school the definition of a man and the definition of a woman. It was not a difficult concept. I understood that men and women are genetically diverse. XY chromosomes are those that determine the male sex, while XX chromosomes are those that determine the female sex. Most of us are only familiar with these sex chromosomes as they relate to a person’s biological gender. However, there is another gene known as the WNT4 gene that is female specific. WNT4 regulates ovarian development, and also prevents testis formation. Wnt4 is deemed as a pro-female gene which can repress the development of male-associated Wolffian ducts and promote Müllerian ducts to differentiate into female genitalia such as fallopian tubes, uterus and the upper vagina.

Being a female is a complicated biological process. This process is expressed in our genes. Our X chromosomes are very different from a man’s Y chromosome. For one thing they’re bigger, about 3x’s bigger and contain around 900 genes; the Y chromosome has approximately 55 genes. Females have two X chromosomes in every cell. One of those X chromosomes becomes inactivated and turned into a Barr body inside the nucleus of the cells which is often used to determine sex. Our femaleness is not determined by the superficiality that some would like to mock, but a more complex biological process expressed in each and every one of our cells.

This process cannot be faked, augmented, or surgical excised. Being female is woven into the very fabric of our cells not our skirts. So although there are men out there who like to believe they are women because they say so, or dress up so, or take hormones to make them so, or allow surgeons to cut them up so, I am reminded of my training that tells me not to indulge in the delusions of others. I can be supportive, but I will not be complicit.

The medical community is committing a crime. Transitioning any human being who is underage is contributing to the mutilation of a minor. It should be illegal. The mutilation, castration and sterilization of our youth who may be suffering from mental illness will go down as one of the most shameful periods in the history of medicine. Profiteering off of those suffering from any form gender dysphoria is unconscionable. One wouldn’t offer an anorexic bariatric surgery because that person deemed themselves to be obese right? Well there is no reason to cut off someone’s genitals because they deem themselves born in the wrong body.

In my 35 years of nursing I have seen two patients identifying as transgender. The first one (when I worked in Urology) was a male adult looking to surgically transition into a female…that was many years ago, and at the time considered very rare (and this was NYC). The second patient I had taken care of was a teenage boy who identified as a girl who I saw postoperatively several times because she liked to swallow sharp objects. Needless to say this patient was not mentally stable. Now it appears transitioning is the fashion du jour, and we are not only expected to accept it, but to bow down and worship it like the golden calf it represents.

It is obvious we have a mental health issue amongst our youth that is not being addressed. Our children are overmedicated from birth, when they receive their first Hepatitis B vaccine on day one of their infancy, throughout their childhood, where they receive 69 doses of 16 vaccines, and into their teens, where they are given drugs for ADD, ADHD, anxiety and depression ranging from Adderall (amphetamine and dextroamphetamine) to Prozac (SSRI). Not to mention the legalization and minimization of the risks of marijuana use and the side effects this can have on the developing brain.

It’s no wonder these kids are confused. Their brains have been bombarded since the day they were born. Add the accelerant of social media, mainstream media, peer pressure, brainwashed parents, the medical community, the education system, and other outside influences and watch these kids self immolate on the pyre of trans ideology.

In the meantime while this fire burns, women are being marginalized, assaulted, dismissed, and diminished by the misogyny of this movement. Women have been fighting for centuries to be on an equal footing with men. That doesn’t mean we want to be men. We fought for the right to vote, to work in the same spaces as men, to be paid equally for equal work, to have access to equal education, and equality in sports. We are complex human beings that will not be defined by our exteriors.

The notion that a man thinks he can play dress-up, take hormones, or cut off his penis and somehow that will make him a women is ludicrous! The notion that other human beings have to affirm this behavior (or else!) is even more ludicrous! There is no time more in history than now that needs both men and women coming together to defend the rights of women to be women. Trans people can have their own spaces, no one is denying them that, but those spaces are not the spaces of women. Our bathrooms, our locker rooms, our sports teams, and female only spaces are sacred and should not be violated. We should not, and will not be pushed out by any man claiming to be a woman.

I give kudos to the women on the front lines having to battle for their spot on the dais or fighting for their privacy in the bathroom. Women need to come together and stick together to defend the rights of our spaces that we have fought so hard to attain.

We need to stop indulging in the delusions and confusions of the mentally ill.