[The Lone Ranger]

In fetal development, the default is being female. All humans (even in old age) tend toward femininity. The main thing that keeps men from diverging into the female pattern is testosterone, and testosterone is suppressed by an excess of estrogen.

I can only assume the author knows nothing at all about developmental biology. At best, this is a gross exaggeration; at worst, it's an outright lie. I don't know why people keep saying it, since it's untrue. I suppose it's because the truth is too complicated for a sound-bite.

An early-stage embryo is neither male nor female phenotypically. It has both Mullerian ducts and Wolffian ducts. If the developing embryo is genetically male, testosterone produced by the developing testes causes the Mullerian ducts to wither away and the Wolffian ducts to develop into the male reproductive tract. If the developing embryo is genetically female, estrogens produced by the developing ovaries cause the Wolffian ducts to wither and the Mullerian ducts to develop into the female reproductive tract.

Now was that really so hard to understand?


An excess of either male or female hormones can interfere with this process, but it's an oversimplification -- at best -- to say that female is the "default sex."

Research is now showing that when you feed your baby soy formula, you're giving him or her the equivalent of five birth control pills a day.

Citations, please?

Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That's why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today's rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products.

Citations, please?


The irony here is that there are a lot of chemicals (lots of plastics, for instance) that are hormone disrupters and are being released into the environment, where they affect development in non-human animals. And very possibly, humans as well. This is a serious concern among biologists, but I'm guessing that the author of this article is much less concerned about this phenomenon than that drinking soy milk might predispose a woman's son to be gay.

Cheers,

Michael