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@hierarchon

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an extremely cool robot. sometimes i play as a lizard girl in an MMO. unironic linux user.

ash @hierarchon5/7/2023, 9:03 PM

a thing I've been thinking about lately:

suppose, in the future, we develop a prenatal screening for "being trans" and a genetic intervention that modifies body development such that gender dysphoria does not exist because everybody winds up being born with a body that they're fine with. at no point is there any coercion involved, just people not wanting to have children that suffer. as a result, trans culture effectively fades away over the course of a generation, because the major driver of it does not exist.

is this a good thing?

(i am explicitly not taking sides on whether such a screening procedure is possible, or how it would be deployed in practice; that's not the point.)

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jeroknite @jeroknite5/7/2023, 9:10 PM

I wouldn't trust anyone to make those kinds of decisions for someone else. I would rather have easy body modifications available after being born

gnar @gnar5/9/2023, 4:40 AM

[disclaimer: i am cis] i wouldnt want someone to decide that sort of thing before i'm capable of consenting to it. that seems like messing with more fundamental aspects of who i am--at some point you are replacing(?) one person with another person, in a way that seems closer to "killing" than "transformation"

in a similar way: i think it'd probably be wrong to tweak my personality such that i would be more likely to pursue learning the violin instead of learning to program, even in the case where it happened that i would actually prefer a life where learned to play the violin instead of programming or a life where i would happen to be much much better at playing the violin instead of programming (like, it would be wrong to do so even it turned out i was secretly a violin prodigy all along and i was only a middling programmer)