Hot Take: the moral panic over transgenderism is but the merest foretaste of the out-and-out mass hysteria that will grip much of the world once we finally get transhumanism up and running.
Conservatives:“Trans people will destroy gender norms to create a new species–part human and part machine!”
Well-meaning Liberals: “That’s literally an insane argument.”
Me, a trans woman: “You know what are cool? Cyborgs.”
This is a good look into disabled people’s lives. Like if you have a major disability with assistive anything you probably have a lot in common with trans people seeking medical transition. The rhetoric in the medical system as a reflection of that moral panic is real lol. My grandmother had to fight to get a power chair that she could rarely leave from because a series of doctors wanted her to try more painful but more normal looking assistive things for mobility because “the world doesn’t like electronic assistance, it makes them think about the fears of the computer age and end of humanity too much” that was in like 1997 or 98 or whatever.
Meanwhile myself and other sufferers of chronic pain wonder if elective amputation with prosthetic replacement could alleviate our suffering, or fatigue for CFS sufferers. Because our bodies might look like everyone else’s, as though they work like everyone else’s, but it’s not true. From the inside we see how different we already are.
I don’t really care if it makes the abled, cisgender people feel uncomfortable. They’ll adapt if augmentation is everywhere.
I hope we can perfect neural implants. Maybe that could cure some forms of chronic pain?
