We are what our hormones dictate

THE EDITOR: I read with interest most of the articles pertaining to homosexuality. I find this subject to be a very delicate one; most of these people appear to be born that way, so we should accept them as a ‘Divergence of Nature’, just as we accept other abnormalities.

It must be very agonising to be a man trapped in a woman’s body, and vice versa. Even in Jesus’ days this problem existed; in the book The Jesus Scrolls it is written that Caesar was a homosexual. A Jewish book also claimed that homosexuals are from the left side of man. I happened to work with Raymond Greene abroad; he was a renowned authority on Endocrinology who travelled all over the world giving lectures and wrote many books on the subject; it was a great privilege to have worked in his clinic. We saw men whose testosterone levels were so low that every three months they came for testosterone pellets to be inserted in them, via an incision in their abdomen, at times there were hardly anywhere to incise.

A white woman turning black in face and body, a Jewish girl engaged to be married, changing into a boy gradually, before our very eyes, women suddenly showing male tendencies, Oestrogen levels gone haywire, men growing breasts. I then realised that we are what our hormones dictate. One day Greene looked straight at me, with his monocle on his eye and said “All women turn men after the menopause”. I said, yes Sir. In my quiet moments I say, “As it was in the beginning so shall it be in the ending”, women came from man and then returns to man, some even grow moustache and beard. Well as hard as it might be, let us try and accept these strange folks, as they fell quite normal, and I observe they are usually gifted in whatever field they chose, be it art, hair dressing, writing, dress designing, music or whatever, maybe nature compensates them. We who appear to be straight must thank God, as who knows, nature could have played tricks upon us.

EDNA Mc BARNETT-SOVERALL
Santa Cruz