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Testosterone does stuff. Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Dear Dawson, we now come to what used

to be quaintly called the facts of life. But instead of dealing with what we used to have,

which was embarrassed fathers talking over sexual matters with embarrassed sons, we are

now living on the tail end of a generation or more of what we have called sex ed. That

unrelenting sex ed drive in our government schools has been a potent mixture of grooming and lies.

And leave it to the government. After a generation or more of government sponsored sex ed,

the end result is that nobody is quite sure what sex even is anymore. It is the lies you've been

told that I'm chiefly concerned with in this letter. The central lie is that sexual differentiation

is an outside in matter instead of an inside out affair. This is what I mean. The fact that people

can seriously maintain that making a man a unit is the same thing as making a man a woman,

and that they can do this while maintaining a straight face, maintaining their medical credentials,

and maintaining their driver's license, is a plain indicator of how many flights of stairs

we've fallen down. A man is a man from the inside out. A woman is a woman from the inside out.

The XX chromosomes are found in every cell of the body, as are the XY chromosomes on the

other side of the aisle. The idea that a man can achieve womanhood by cutting off the male

protuberance and putting on a dress as a howler for the ages. Try taking a steer to your nearest

veterinarian and asking him why your cow can give no milk. Put them on a monthly retainer and

ask him to research it for you. And these XX and XY chromosomes are not just cellular

signage down in the cell, like the words on old-fashioned restroom doors. These chromosomes are

blueprints, sets of instructions, directives, decrees, and ordinances. And one of the things they

dictate is that a body like yours is going to have about 10 times the amount of testosterone

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