Sunday, July 7, 2024

What to Hunt on Archive.org

 Idires Shah

Robert Anton Wilson

Travel List

Canada-  Montreal NYE, Toronto and Trip through the Canadian Rockies

Mexico-- Playa del Carmen, Cancun, and Cozumel

Bahamas-  The Princess Many years

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Grand Cayman Island

Little Cayman

Curacao  - Cruise with Grandma

Costa Rica- cruise stop

Honduras-Cruise stop 

Us Virgin Islands- all three

British Virgin Islands on Windjammer

Culebra and Virgin Gorda on Windjammer.

Germany

Switzerland

Sweden

Austria

Italy

Portugal

Spain

Guam 

Palau


Disney Cruise When Young

Panama Canal Cruise during college years.

Windjammer-  Departed from El Conquistador in Puerto Rico, bathroom phones and all

Palau/Yap Livaboard

Belize multiple times.  

Thursday, July 4, 2024

Basics of Gender- Notes from a PBS documentary

Intersex births are a fact of life that has been around forever.   There have been no real changes in frequency.

Currently many children with ambiguous parts, both sets of parts, or deformed or problematic costs, receive surgery very shortly after birth.

Gender Identity
Gender Expression
Sex parts.

These three don't always match!

Some of these children assigned to one gender or the other grow up with a brain that feels a gender that doesn't match.  The brain sends a signal that doesn't  correspond with the body's parts.

It is well known that there are crucial periods in neonatal development.  One such is when the fetus is exposed to estrogen or testosterone levels.   When those levels are too high or too low, various biological events happen.

It is currently thought that a gender sense develops in the brain in everyone.  For most, this sense matches our exterior parts.  For many it doesn't and that is proven to be biologically based.

Many other individuals report identical symptoms to the previous cases yet do not easily fit the above explanation  

State laws about when the below are available vary:
Puberty Blockers
Hormones
Surgery- Male to Female most common.