PART FIVE - A Mother's Stress & Fear

Over the past 30 years or so, the number of children who grew to be , men and women feel that they were born ‘homosexual’ or ‘gay’ has taken a huge leap. This huge leap in the birth of ‘Intersex’ children seems to be directly related to the increase of stress in the lives of women and potential mothers.

A few of the primary stressors for women today are:
- Financial Insecurity
- Stressful Job
- Emotional Issues
- Body Image/Weight Gain
- Emotionally Unfulfilling Marriage
- Abusive Relationships/Marriage
- Unexpected Pregnancy
- Unwanted Pregnancy
- Too Many Children
- Single Parent


Stress Hormones and the Fetus:
These stressful situations have a negative impact on not only the females physical and mental condition, but impact the healthy development of her unborn child. If a mother is stressed during the early stages of pregnancy, she will release an adrenaline related hormone into her own bloodstream and that of her unborn child. This hormone is called androstendione.

If the baby carries a “XY” chromosome and is destine to become a male, testosterone needs to be active when the Central Nervous System (CNS), including the hypothalamus, is being developed. This is the only way that the CNS knows to develop along male lines. Because the stress hormone androstendione seems to bind the receptors that would normally be receiving testosterone, there is the delay or blockage of the effectiveness of testosterone, even if it’s plentiful.

Stress Impact on the Hypothalamus
When a woman is pregnant with a fetus that is destined to be male, the influx of the stress-related hormone, androstendione, can inhibit the effectiveness of testosterone, and effectively prevent or inhibit the hypothalamus from developing into a sexually healthy male brain.

The hypothalamus (small portion of the brain) makes a gender commitment very early in development, and once committed to either male or female, after the first trimester, it can not be changed. The interference of testosterone in the later states of pregnancy or after the first trimester, or after birth, does little or nothing to inhibit primary gender development of the other organs of the body. This is why with hormone treatment, we can modify our physical body appearance and physiology, but we are not able to impact the hypothalamus.

Therefore it is possible that while the body and organs of a child can be a various levels of ‘male’, the brain can essentially be various levels of ‘female’ based on the early development of the hypothalamus during the first trimester. The concept of personal choice as it relates to homosexual behavior appears to be an insignificant factor in those males who were born with a less male and more female hypothalamus. To the degree that the hypothalamus remains female, the person will be mentally more female, no matter what the physical appearance may be. Thus the attraction for males is heterosexual in nature, since the person is actually partially mentally female.

Intersex in Nature
This extreme reaction to maternal stress even may have a very logical and natural purpose. Based on clinical studies involving mice, when the female mouse, sensing that a population is under the stress of crowding, lack of food or poor living conditions, nature provides this natural mechanism as a means to limit population growth thereby reducing the cause for the stress.
The result is male mice are born with a limited or lack of a desire to procreate. This homosexual behavior in mice dictates that less offspring will be produced, thus ensuring that the mother’s offspring will not produce more offspring into the already stressed population. So from a natural perspective, the Intersex condition seems to be a survival mechanism directly linked to environmental conditions, to help the population from starving itself into extinction.

So now the question is, what can a mother do to create more balanced conditions and reduce her chances of giving birth to an ‘Intersex’ child?