FloridaPuppy wrote:The article is dated from 2005 and there is nothing aside from a few sites quoting the article verbatim that google is able to find. There was nothing unusual discovered or there would have been quite a bit of news on it in the last 3 years.
I have to say that my immediate thoughts on that story is that it's from a small, superstitious and, most likely, conservative community. So, what better than to provide a narrative, using the superstition to your advantage, to explain away the sudden change in the community?
Not that I'm ruling out the story being actually as it was told, but given that we don't actually see the penis or the chest in the article, my main thought is "pics or it didn't happen".
baby_jessica75 wrote:in the womb we are all female to begin with so wouldn't the change that we are discussing just be the reverasal of a mutation in cells?
Not quite so. Now, I'm not a qualified geneticist or ob-gyn, but the general gist of it is this: Yes, for the first few weeks, we are sexually undifferentiated. However, the genetics are still there (you're still XX, XY or whatever other configuration you might be), there just aren't the hormones giving instructions to the cells on how to behave, grow and divide. So there's no real "mutation" in the genetic sense. However, what does happen is that the hormones (in foetal development we're generally talking about the release of a substance called H-Y antigen at 6 weeks to develop the testes as opposed to ovaries, and at 3 months testosterone plus Mullerian-inhibiting substance to go down the male path) give the cells instructions of what bits to develop... or at 3 months of development, you have both sets and then the hormones give instructions to keep one and ignore the other set.
Now, if you're talking about those sorts of instructions when you say "mutations", the challenge of trying to undo those instructions is like telling someone throw an egg to the ground, and then asking them to undo it. Some instructions given by hormones are just very, very hard to reverse.
To be honest, if it was just genetic, it'd probably be easier to sort out via hypnosis (evidence seems to indicate that genes can be triggered and untriggered with selective methylation, and if there are ways to selectively control such expression available to the brain, it would therefore be available to an individual during hypnosis or other trance-states), but we have other mechanics at work, which makes it a bit more difficult.
Anyway, I'm not discounting that this could happen, but I do think that there are a lot of barriers to overcome, so the odds are stacked against in the case of spontaneously growing a womb and vagina, but like you said, the files are relaxing, and hypno sessions would certainly be of benefit to GID patients, if only so as to make them more comfortable... and maybe evoke some soft tissue responses. Just don't expect miracles.
Just to finish by playing devil's advocate, I'll give you the "wart story" (the equivalent of the bee flying). One day, a hypnotist is in a hospital, and at some point looks at a guy covered in warts and tells the doctor "Hey, I can cure that", because he knew a way to remove warts by hypnosis. The doctor said "Look, you can't, but if you want you can try anyway". The 'tist tried and it cleared right up.
The doctors were amazed and told him what the patient had. It turns out it wasn't warts but an incurable disease where the skin blisters and warts up and is very painful... but it worked so they said that they had more cases just like that patient and asked if he could help there. Knowing what it was, he went to the other patients and couldn't manage it, he "knew" now that it was incurable, so he wouldn't let himself believe that he could cure it. Moral of the story: sometimes ignorance is bliss.
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Orisha.