In addition he showed a number of feminine behaviours. He said that he wanted to be a girl, and as a young child, he generally sat down to urinate (Space Ed- the ****?). He also enjoyed wearing women's clothing and wore his mothers lipstick and earrings, and dresses many times. At school, he enjoyed playing and studying with the girls rather than the boys, and he did not engage in typical male behaviours for boys in that area such as climbing trees. Both of his parents complained about his feminine behaviours, and they said that they never talked to him about being the rebirht of his grandmother.
MtF GID cases seem to occur (according to the limited but fairly consistant research) due to the mother's thyroid/endocrine system disruption being the factor involved.
The masculinity of the brain is probably somewhat incomplete, due to the hormone level (testosterone mostly) regulated by the mother as a trigger mechanism for the as yet unborn's conversion from neuter/female to male in the womb.
It surely is stretching it slightly to say that this represents evidence in any form of some sort of female spirit present in the boy's body.
To do so one would have to postulate that the reincarnated would have some sort of influence over the mothers body functions influencing a condition present in the mother pretty much all her life, only showing up during gestation of the foetus, perhaps even when the reincarnated was still alive even, as in the grandmother? How about the non-related ones also? I think not.
No way, can this be a realistic proposition, and borders on the insanely circular logic that pure woo is made of sometimes.
This to me is a strong case of confirmation bias, based on the lack of knowledge or even an inkling that GID is a most likely a physical condition which it most likely is..
That is why psychological treatments have singuarly failed time after time, to the point where a significant number of GID cases are refered to surgeons, because the brain cannot be fixed. Its called reparatrive, or corrective surgery for good reason, that is, the changes have to get made to the sex organs.
So evidence (in this case) based on behavioural traits simply dosn't stand up to proper scrutiny in my mind.
I can't see personally that the boy/grandmother would also desire this, in reincarnating as such, as it is not a willful, pleasant condition for the majority of cases. Many simply commit suicide before they get far in life, and some are killed off by other means (intolerance by others).
If the parents induced it by conditioning then natural hormonal production would overrule it pretty much also, as the chemicals involved are powerful medicine indeed. It just would not stick .
They in fact object to it, so I cannot see that they had much influence over his identity, and reality would step in and make the parents look fools in the boys eyes possibly too. He/she knows what gender he/she is usually, don't you?
As far as I can see. Certainly not a case of some sort of female "spirit" nonsense. That is, to me, the result of not having the research, and blind faith in nonsense most likely.
This dosn't make sense to me, if the grandmother wanted to be reincarnated as a male, then she got it wrong then, badly so..
Badly wrong. If reincarnation worked, then this could not happen...
Sorry, epic fail, in my book, on that count alone.
