Spinning acceptance.

For many years now, there has been an agenda among many groups to have homosexuality accepted on an equal level with heterosexuality. All of the "gay" marriage controversies hinge around this push for acceptance. But there are other sexual behaviors deviating from the standard of one-man one-woman in marriage of traditional societies and religions. Proponents do not stop at acceptance of homosexuality. In the universities, many are pushing the ideas of "transgender" and "post-gender" existence.

For instance in Columbia University's core curriculum that all students must take, often topics in Logic and Rhetoric or Contemporary Civilization or Western Literature will disproportionately include works and assignments related to sexual behaviors and identity. In the late nineties, also, there was a push for a BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism) student group to be recognized by the religious student union. This group could have applied through the regular student societies organization, but in particular seemed to want to force the religious groups to recognize it. During its campaign to force acceptance on campus, all of the Psychiatrist Diagnostic and Statistic Manuals that specified standards of practice for psychiatry were stolen from every single library on campus, probably because the DSM-IV (4th edition) continued to classify sadomasochism as a mental disorder.

Others are exploring opening up "freedoms" for polygamy and polyandry. Still others try to push the boundaries of adult-child sexual interaction: for instance the North American Man-Boy Love Association. All of these groups often will lump together to try to push the envelope of what is accepted.

To bolster support for behaviors deviating from the previous societal sexual norm, different news reports and medical and scientific research studies will be reported with headlines in ways that somehow seem to "prove" that these behaviors are natural. You'll hear reports about "gay genes" in fruit flies, or studies of statistically significant brain morphological differences
in practicing homosexuals. [We'll put up more links here.]

Recently there has been a big issue made about the "pregnant man." The headlines, such as in this ABC News Story will say "Pregnant Man is Pregnant again," or something like that. To further support the headline, pictures of the topless "man" with a bulging stomach will be shown. No woman's breasts can be seen! Proof?

In this case, it is probably done more for the sensational value, but the result is that it distorts the facts and affects people's understanding of the biological reality. The biological reality of this "transgender" man is that she is not a man. Her genes still specify two XX chromosome that make a woman. She still has a uterus. She still has all the biological functions of a woman except perhaps anything surgically removed like her mammary glands so that the child born will not be able to nurse.

The biological reality is that men have an X and a Y chromosome pair in every cell of their bodies. Women have an X and an X chromosome pair in every cell in their bodies. In some extreme cases where the sex cells were abnormal, you might get an XXY where there is more than a pair. This is a result of a cell division error.

One can do surgery to remove sexual organs, and one can artificially take hormones like testosterone that makes a women grow facial hair, but one cannot replace one of the X chromosomes in every cell with a Y chromosome.

But one's thinking that "I've always felt I was not a girl, but a boy," can only be the result of psychosexual developmental problems, or environmental factors. That cannot change the genes.

---
for further reading, take a look at chapter 4, Acquiring Tastes and Love: What Neuroplasticity Teaches Us About Sexual Attraction and Love -- in The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, M.D. of Columbia University; also you can refer to his paper submitted to a conference at Princeton's Witherspoon Institute.