Warning! the following is an opinion based on my experience and, should be regarded as such only. It is in no way a universal truth and, in reality, is true for me and it may make sense to some others. Please read it with an open mind and comment in accordance. My only hope is that one day, these can serve as arguments to remove the “Deviance” and “Mental illness” tags given to those who are different.

            I am convinced, that basically, all human beings need to feel loved. In my case, that need is linked to the feeling of being desired. Now, our society, strongly influenced by Judeo-Christianity beliefs, themselves based on sexual dichotomy, in order to insure the most efficient reproduction of the specie,

[i.e.: The conclusion of the first chapter of the Genesis, first book of the Bible, verse 28 is very clear about that.

²⁸ God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”]

allows women all the seductive power and instruments, where as it gives men the opportunity to prove his superiority over his fellow creatures in order to obtain the privilege to be loved. It is easy to link that behavior with the survival laws of reproduction of the other animals; such a system put at an unfair disadvantage those weaker and or les handsome males!

            It is therefore not impossible that those “males” who do not feel capable of competing, chose to live “enfemme”, temporarily or permanently, for the feeling of power thus obtained: being desired. The want to be desired does not imply to be taken; the same way that women who dress sexy do not necessarily want to have sex.

            Psychology still has a long way to go before it can help those who choose that path in order to gain the feeling of being loved. As long as that choice will be tagged as mentally disordered, with a diagnostic of sexual deviance, all will be achieved is to isolate sensible human beings and, as all other, having the same basic need, if not “right”: to be loved.

            When I see how difficult it is difficult, even for Mrs Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D., to have mental disorder diagnostics associated with menstrual syndromes removed from the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), another Bible as far as I concerned, I understand why some choose the permanent chirurgical path of changing sex.  Ref.: They Say You’re Crazy  ISBN : 0-201-48832-9

            Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, in “The Little Prince”, relates an example of the nasty results that can be obtained with wrongly tagging:

            e.g. Chapter IV “…On making his discovery, the astronomer had presented it to the International Astronomical Congress, in a great demonstration. But he was in Turkish costume, and so nobody would believe what he said.

 Warning! the following is an opinion based on my experience and, should be regarded as such only. It is in no way a universal truth and, in reality, is true for me and it may make sense to some others. Please read it with an open mind and comment in accordance. My only hope is that one day, these can serve as arguments to remove the “Deviance” and “Mental illness” tags given to those who are different.

The being that mastered fire, went from prey to top predator. I think that this was the beginning of humanity; the step from animal to human. The quest for a missing link would therefore be vain.

            Mastering of fire was celebrated in many cultures. An internet search on “Fire festival” will return many websites on the subject. The following in one of them : http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/beltanemayday/p/Beltane_History.htm

            The fact that human being became top predator has probably given him the opportunity to reproduce without fear; the reproduction act, amongst preys, is quick because it is a moment of extreme vulnerability. Survival of the species depends on it and, must only be consumed for reproduction purposes.

            Judeo-Christianity, the basses of our civilization, insists on the obligation to consume sexuality in the sole purpose of reproduction and, therefore, follows the dictates of the survival rules dictated by the most conservative human beings; those who insisted on maintaining the survival law that ruled the beings before mastering fire.

             The first to suffer from sexual related discrimination were probably Adam and Eve. They were deprived from the advantages associated with the clan, Garden of Eden, for having infringed the sacred law.  Eve had offered Adam an “apple” after having eaten of it. What if the “apple” was just a symbol; one that represented femininity? After all, if one breaks an apple open, it is easy to visualize the contour as being the hips of a woman and, the core being the labia. Eve would have been the first to sin, eating the fruit from the tree of wisdom (Genesis 3.6); that is to say, she was the first to explore an aspect of sexuality that was then forbidden.

             Adam and Eve were probably not the first humans since Cain, one of their sons, went and lived in the land of Nod (Genesis 4.16), probably named to the chief of that clan, after killing his brother Abel; but they were probably punished to set an example for having infringed the law dictated by the chief of their clan.. They would then have been the first to be labeled with a diagnosis of sexual deviance. To say that we thought Sigmund Freud to be the father of psychology! Should it be the case, then that notion of sin dates hundreds of millenniums and, will be extremely difficult to eradicate. All along the ages fundamentalists have appeared and insisted on that rule to isolate those who practice a sexuality outside of the reproduction law.