TWO SEXES IN ALL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 190, 27 July 1922, Page 7

TWO SEXES IN ALL.

The story of pre-natal determination of sex is told by Dr. Leonard Williams, of London, in the “British Medical Journal.” Dr. Williams declares that in every child the two-sex elements are fiercely at war In the first few weeks after conception either male or female elements gain the mastery. But the victory is never complete, the embryonic interstitial glands on both sides have been mobilised, the armies have been engaged, and. albeit the one- may win. the other, though defeated, is by no means annihilated. Thus it comes about that in every child there remains a certain number of ihese antagonistic interstitial gland cells which, entrenched opposite their victors, continue to glower at them, spoiling lor the next encounter. The second battle royal comes at the age of puberty. The result is there is no man but has some taint of the woman in him, and no woman without something of the male. When the vetory m favour of maleness is complete, the result is a Caesar, a Napoleon, a Bismarck—-active, resolute, and ruthless. M hen less complete you have the ordinary man, respectable, hard-working, but with engaging weaknesses. V\ ith yet another dose of the female interstitial gland in his composition you come upon the effeminate, artistic male, who, whatever his practices, is usually homosexual at heart. 1 Reverse the medal and you are in the presence of such an eternal femininity as Josephine or Mary Queen of Scots. With added male elements in different degrees you see Queen Elizabeth, Catherine of Russia., Madame de Stael, or the latter-day suffragist., Dr. \\ illiams declares the law regarding homo-sexuality requires revision. It is. no more reasonable to punish a man for being homo-sexual than it would be to punish him for having red hair. Both are burdens cast upon him by forces over which he has no control.