In the United States of America under the Presidency of Joe Biden, trans-gender issue is brewing hot with legislations that would guarantee some understanding and acceptance of freakish people in the Armed forces and other settings. Freakish people include homosexuals, lesbians, etc, all of whom are classified as trans-gender group of humans. There are various forms of human abnormalities of which distortion in gender specifications is one, which demands for a better understanding of the phenomenon.
Distortions in genetic specifications occur quite often, as a result of lifestyle and activity patterns of individuals. Therefore, there is nothing accidental about gender distortion since the phenomenon can arise only on the basis of individual volition or choice. Volition of an individual includes any line of thinking and activity profile chosen or taken by anyone willingly and without external compulsion. Regular thinking and activity profile of an individual constitute a demand which registers an indelible imprint in the blood of the individual.
What is known as genetic formula is composed of imprints registering in the blood of an individual on regular and continuous basis, arising from the thinking and activity patterns of an individual. From such imprints in the individual blood system, what is known as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) becomes the microchip bearing the natural history of an individual. Like individual finger prints, human blood is an information carrier which bears an undistorted data of every person.
Personal free will or volition becomes the medium by whose instrumentality alterations adjustments and changes can be made by every individual. Thus, the fate of individuals hardly remains irrevocable or fixed, but alterable via the exercise of personal volition and exertion. The human genetic system does not function arbitrarily but guided by fixed laws such as a provision to make changes where there are persistent desires and actions to bring about such changes. Unfortunately, people are not usually aware of their genetic data-base and, therefore, rarely know what accounts for their personal experiences. Nothing happens arbitrarily!
Trans-gender controversies include cases of sex transplant, where a “man” bearing female sex attributes and features, undergoes a surgery to become a woman. There are “women” who bear masculine features, including having moustache and male sex organs. There are also men and women who appear so only physically but who are in reality the opposite of the sex form which they bear. The genes and hormones running in their blood are the opposites of the sex forms which they bear. The plight of such freakish people is rarely understood by society and their lifestyles become intolerable and regarded as “abnormal”.
Trans-gender people have unique problems and lifestyles which the society can frown about, and such people themselves rarely understand what accounts for their unique abnormality. Distortion in sex forms also goes with a mindset that normal people would rarely understand or show some sympathy for.
Unfortunately, sad experiences of trans-gender people with those whom they come in contact with can predispose some of them to turn to alcoholism, intake of narcotic substances and other diversions, to find solace. Among trans-gender people are groups who are neither men nor women, but a strange mixture of male and female features which produce conflicts with those they come in contact with. There are also those who have insatiable libido, the so-called nymphomaniacs and masochists.
There are many of such people, both men and women, who enlist in the Armed forces, not only in America, but in other countries too. Their lifestyles and sexual orientations can be quite embarrassing among the people and groups that they interact with, and often leading to legal and disciplinary breaches. In Nigeria, such cases have not reached such alarming dimension as are common in some developed countries, like USA. Some abnormalities and Freakish lifestyles pose real challenges and problems in many countries. Freakish lifestyles manifest in various annoying ways.
Origin of trans-gender abnormalities can always be traced to human errors, ignorance and stubborn disregard of natural laws. With regards to human gender specifications, any attempt to distort the order of nature results in unnatural aberrations such as freakishness. The Order of Nature can be distorted when a male or female inclines to the opposite of gender specifications, persistently. It is usually through individual volition and activity profile that such aberrations come about.
A deeper meaning of the concept of unfaithfulness refers to a distortion of gender specifications whereby a male or female abandons the natural lines of activity prescribed for each gender in pursuit of the opposite one. We find women who incline towards male lifestyle in behaviour, thinking, activities, which can include such engagements as smoking, boxing, fencing and other rough games peculiar to men. There are also men who incline towards feminine activities and lifestyles, deliberately and regularly, for whatever reasons. Human regular inclinations are demands which register in the blood system of individuals.
Regular state of mind, expressed in desires, choices, lifestyles, etc, usually connect an individual with conditions which translate such mindset into a reality. With regards to trans-gender enigma, the mechanism of transmutation comes into operation through a transformation in the blood system. With an encoding system, the blood records activity profiles of an individual according to the mindset that informs such lifestyles. Thus, the desire to adopt a feminine or masculine lifestyle becomes a demand which becomes a reality in the form of trans-gender enigma.
Without showing hostility towards transvestites and other freakish people, the unpleasant experiences which such people often encounter can make them change toward a normal lifestyle. A sex identity that is not genuine is a reflection of a deliberately cultivated lifestyle that distorts and dishonours the Order of Nature. Same-sex marriage is associated with such freakishness, which should not be encouraged in Africa.

Dr. Amirize is a retired lecturer from the Rivers State University, Port Harcourt.