4. Grandmother and some distorted Perceptions
Chpter 4 of "Castrated in the womb - every man a gunea pig"
Before proceeding you have to meet my much-beloved grandmother Linda Fierz-David (the one consulted about the doll, she had and has some fame in Jungian circles). She was the first Swiss girl to attend college and university in Basel at the beginning of the 20th century because her father, Basel's executive director of education, used her as a pilot project for girls' access (previously only Russian girls were allowed to study). Later she had a sharp tongue, her own Lancia convertible and an elegant ladies' pistol in her bedside table. All the female ancestors I know and all the women in my life had a qualified education and were completely independent. When we talk here about different abilities, behaviors or roles of the sexes, we are not talking about sexist points of view, but about identifying and understanding characteristics.
Distorted perceptions
This said, the field of action of testosterone is the determination of sex, gender and gender-typical behavior. And here, unfortunately, there are all sorts of perceptive problems:
From the Muslim world to Russia to the right-wing populists of Europe and Trump's America, homosexuality and other variations of gender behaviour are demonized and turned into a populist political issue. Trump has taken up the fight against wokeness, and the Swiss People's Party (SVP) has even included the “fight against woke madness” in its party program [23]. Biology teaches us that many of these variants are biologically determined. Therefore, they are not the fault of those affected and nothing can be done about it, neither with psychotherapy nor with politics.
Some on the left and the Greens side, on the other hand, often prefer to see gender roles as a mere social construct. Existing biological foundations are negated or militantly fought against. This goes as far as destroying careers, more on this later. This is a missed opportunity to come to terms with existing biology. And above all, the piquant paradox of the following consideration will not be understood.
In the next chapter 5 we will see how the foxes pretend to guard the henhouse. And this link takes you to the start of the book.
The German edition of this book can be ordered e.g. here.
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23. Schweizerische Volkspartei (SVP), Parteiprogramm 2023-2027: Für eine sichere Zukunft in Freiheit, G. SVP Schweiz, Postfach, 3001 Bern, Editor. 2023. https://www.svp.ch/wp-content/uploads/230726_Parteiprogramm.pdf#page=115