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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: PMS and incompetence (and the dreaded testosterone 'poisoning')
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 13:16:46 EDT
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Sunny writes:
> I feel myself to be unusually qualified to answer this issue:  Speaking
> from experience, I find that being under the influence of male hormones
> tends to result in some percentage loss of ability to focus on the work
> at hand, 100 percent of the time.  Being under the influence of female
> hormones tends to result in some less percentage loss of ability to
> focus on the work at hand, some percentage of the time.

     And in case there's anyone still out there who doesn't know *why*
Sunny feels specially qualified to speak on this subject:

> Why am I qualified to say these things?  Because I am a male-to-female
> transsexual who has experienced first hand the effects of both types of
> hormones.  To be perfectly honest, there is a lot of truth in the concept
> of "testosterone poisoning".  It totally clouds the mind.

      Or at least - it used to totally cloud *your* mind, right?  I would 
think that it's obvious that someone who used to belong to that tiny minority
of men who think that they should have been women would be much less qualified
than ordinary males to determine the effect of testosterone on the average
male.  What makes you think that your experience of 'mind clouding' was due
to testosterone rather than to your unhappiness with your sex?  To say that
testosterone is a mind-clouding poison is the same as saying that men are
biologically inferior to women.  And saying that *any* group is biologically
inferior to another is usually frowned on in this group.
     Frankly, I find this 'Being-a-woman-is-so-much-superior-to-being-a-man'
variety of claptrap just as offensive as the opposite variety of claptrap.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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