Some Thoughts: Rejecting Our Biology

I am writing this here because I think my ideas will be pretty unpopular, and I don't feel up to handling all the backlash for saying something that many people disagree with. But I think there is some truth in what I say.

With all the transgender issues being discussed everywhere, I've found myself pondering about human biology. And I thought, this does seem an ultimate rejection of our biology. But I think we've been heading toward this in little common ways for a long time. In small ways people have been turning toward drugs to reject their biology for many years now.

We've rejected our biological functions of reproductions. We take pills, insert chemical devices and have surgeries to stop the process. Of course, some people have really good reasons for doing so. But when a majority of the people do it, it's basically become a societal rejection of a natural biological function.

We've rejected our natural emotions and anxieties. Many of us have decided that our emotions and anxieties are a mental illness and must be fixed. That may be true for a small number of people, but it shouldn't be for the majority. Our emotions tell us things. They teach us to love and care. They attach us to one another, and they help us seek out God. Our anxieties warn us when something isn't right. These are natural biological functions, not illnesses. They make us human. Often they are uncomfortable. Negative emotions and too much anxiety need to be controlled. But we can learn to do that. Learning to control our emotions and put our anxieties in proper context is part of maturing. Two year old children, for example, are very emotional beings. But they learn from those emotions. The toddler years are some of the most important years in which people learn to control their emotions, emotional responses and to put them in the proper context. Of course that process should continue throughout our lives. I often wonder what we are doing when we drug ourselves so those emotions and anxieties are numbed or non-existent. Are we rejecting a need to learn self control? Are we missing important biological signals that would help us alter the course of our lives? Are we making it so we are incapable of attachment? I worry about the extensive use of drugs to correct an important part of our biological make-up. If I feel anxious, I ask why? Have I done something wrong? Am I not treating my body well enough? Do I need more exercise or more hydration or better nutrition? If I am medicating those feelings away, I do not have what I need to signal a course correction.

And now, here we are rejecting what our eyes see and more of our natural biological functions saying that gender is fluid. It does not matter what you look like, it only matters how you feel? And what does one do about that? Why take pills and have surgeries of course. Since we already take pills and have surgery to stop reproductive biology and we already take pills to eliminate our emotions and anxieties. What else would we do? Something makes us feel uncomfortable or makes us afraid, so instead of trying to solve that problem, we take pills.

A big part of me thinks this phenomenon of so much medication to fix what is normal has it's foundation in money. The big drug companies, doctors, and pharmacists are making a lot of money from these daily drugs. I am sure there are many honest doctors and pharmacists, and I suspect most people really do think there is something wrong that needs to be fixed and nice people want to help fix it. I just wish the conversation would turn to what is normal about us.