all of us, whatever our eventual sex, from the first weeks of our life in the womb; they have to be soaked in extra male hormone and restructured, which is much greater than that in a female who doesn’t need any reconstruction of her brain. Not surprisingly, these studies have attracted anger from homosexuals, who see these theories as equating homosexuality with disease, or as a 1930-style sexual totalitarianism involving ‘the endocrinological euthanasia of homosexuality’. (Dorner, 4) Scientists, too, were initially skeptical, until gradually, the weight of scientific fact has shifted the opinion to the belief in these views. As seen in the film, Paris is Burning, homosexuality is not much of a choice, but a way of life that not many would chose living unless biologically destined to be. We must trust that the very knowledge of the natural and biological springs of sexual abnormality will bring about the recognition that the syndrome is natural, and may change our perceptions of what is normal. After all, the problem, such as Bornstein stated, is with our intolerance that they do not conform with what we think is ‘normal’ gender identity and sexual behavior. Though it is our biologically wired mind that makes us intolerable and aggressive to the ‘outsider’, it is our duty as a society to erase this ignorance by education of the genetically sexual ‘deviant’ ones. ...
