While reading this book, I realised how ignorant I was about the biological permutations that nature can dish out when it comes to sexual attributes. Add to that the interplay of hormonal idiosyncracies, which probably have not been thoroughly researched, one can begin to grasp the challenges that intersex people face when developing their gender identity. The author discusses at length the cultural and political ramifications, including turf wars over the appropriateness of this or that intervention and the ramifications of binary categorisations.
Hormones have a huge effect on consciousness and behaviour. Why would some like myself, whose baseline temperament is fairly introverted, spend my teens and most of my twenties being a gregarious party animal and performing musician, only to eventually lose interest? Because nature wants you to form social allegiances, show off, and reproduce. It's an intoxicating, mind bending hormonal hypnosis that hijacks the system, like some biochemical possession. Very weird.
When it involves us, or people we care about, we want personalised care. When it's for those we don't care about, it is filtered through Manichaeanisms, theories, impersonal structures of mind or society.
For most, this is a subconscious process.
I wonder if MPs had to take out 30mins 3x a day to meditate, whether their policies would improve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexing_the_Body
While reading this book, I realised how ignorant I was about the biological permutations that nature can dish out when it comes to sexual attributes. Add to that the interplay of hormonal idiosyncracies, which probably have not been thoroughly researched, one can begin to grasp the challenges that intersex people face when developing their gender identity. The author discusses at length the cultural and political ramifications, including turf wars over the appropriateness of this or that intervention and the ramifications of binary categorisations.
Hormones have a huge effect on consciousness and behaviour. Why would some like myself, whose baseline temperament is fairly introverted, spend my teens and most of my twenties being a gregarious party animal and performing musician, only to eventually lose interest? Because nature wants you to form social allegiances, show off, and reproduce. It's an intoxicating, mind bending hormonal hypnosis that hijacks the system, like some biochemical possession. Very weird.
When it involves us, or people we care about, we want personalised care. When it's for those we don't care about, it is filtered through Manichaeanisms, theories, impersonal structures of mind or society.
For most, this is a subconscious process.
I wonder if MPs had to take out 30mins 3x a day to meditate, whether their policies would improve.