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Thursday, January 12, 2023

War hero General Casimir Pulaski and the transgender debate

 

(Be forewarned, I am not a doctor.  I hope I say this correctly.) Casimir Pulaski, was a Revolutionary War hero.  He was a Polish nobleman, highly-skilled cavalry officer, who saved George Washington and the American Army at Brandywine.  He'd been given a handful of calvarymen to train and was supposed to be simply an observor of the battle. The British had trapped Washington's army and Pulaski could see what was going to happen.  He roused his horsemen, charged the British line and managed to cause chaos while Washington and troops escaped. Noting the guy's ability, Washington thereupon made him a general and sent him to defend Savannah.  There, Pulaski led a valiant cavalry charge and was shot mortally.  70 years later, Savannah erected a monument in one of their squares to the brave guy who came to fight for freedom that his native Poland had lost. [Savannah has many squares.  A city block is a park surrounded by a dozen blocks of houses or businesses. The live oak shaded parks with monuments in the center are highly regarded by architects worldwide.] In 1996 the tall spire-like Pulaski monument was found unsafe and had to be taken down and repaired.  It had been recorded that Pulaski’s bones were placed in the hollow of the base, and sure enough, a box of bones were found.  But there were numerous other stories about where Pulaski was buried.  Were these bones really his? Forensics specialists laid out the full skeleton and found the unique war wounds Pulaski suffered.  A middle finger was broken and never healed and hung down, which he had to tie to another middle finger.  His skull had been cracked fighting the Russians as they took over Poland. But the forensics people were also astonished.  It was clearly the bones of a female—classic female pelvis, long foot bones and hand bones, no ridge above the eye sockets.  Was this really Pulaski or some other body dug up and moved?  They had a hard time getting DNA samples to compare with the skeleton of a niece buried in Poland.  But a paleo-DNA lab in Canada found some mitochondrial DNA. This is passed almost exactly between mothers and daughters, women within a family, but not to males.  Pulaski’s DNA was a perfect overlay of his niece.  Hence the muscular but short general, trained as a warrior from early childhood, small trimmed mustache, was really a genetic woman.  The Polish doctor present at Casimir’s birth wrote that there were “genital deficiencies”, hence he was privately baptized at home.

            CAH or congenital adrenal hyperstasia, is a genetic disorder where some genes are missing that develop the adrenal glands. That means complications with high blood pressure and adrenaline production that can leave the immunity poorly defended against disease.  It also suppresses adrogens--gender development.  It comes in two types, the classical form has unusual genitals at birth, hence mis-gendered babies.    Receding hairline, facial hair in women and males with almost no sex drive, infertility. In short, they are born “intersex” There are other less-severe forms that become evident later in life or are temporary due to drugs taken in pregnancy of the mother.  Altogether about 1% of adults have CAH but classic CAH born with deficient or unsual genitalia is more like one in 10,000.

            This and other similar genetic deformities should evoke some sympathy. After all, people can't help how they are born.  But recently, politicians and activists, seeking a "new"civil rights issue to rouse voters, have combined this with dystrophic gender syndrome that some psychologists wish to normalize. Popularizing gender dystropia, a mental state, has led to grooming and docs doing serious damage to young people, often minors with mental struggles. The results offend sensibilities of most people.  That only makes life tough on people with real genetic deficiencies and CAH. The medical community should require DNA testing and CAH testing  to be shown the patients. No good can happen when plastic surgery and life-altering drugs are administered to minors. 

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