Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Less ontology
I've tried to deal with trans shit at the level of basic logic before.
Changing your gender requires renting a Tardis and traveling back to the location of your mother's uterus at the timepoint when the egg that would become you is about to be fertilized. Miniaturize yourself, crawl into your mother's uterus, find the sperm about to penetrate the egg, squash it, and pick a different sperm with the opposite set of sex chromosomes. After this other sperm fertilizes the egg, your entire life will disappear from the start to the present. You never exist[ed]. You are not. Some other brother or sister exist[ed] in your place. The rented Tardis is marooned at this timepoint and will need to be repo'd by Timelord Logistics LLC, which is accustomed to dealing with idiots pursuing vain things, and prices the repo risk into its rates.
Convective thought just now:
There's a less ontological and less sci-fi way of dealing with the question.
All human beings, and in fact all mammals, have singular permanent gender. Some other animals like slugs or jellyfish have mixed or variable gender.
If you claim that your gender is variable, you have voluntarily resigned from the human species. You can no longer claim any of the protections that we give to humans or mammals. You may be able to join a species of slug that belongs on some Endangered list, but I doubt that you'll enjoy the privileges appurtenant thereto. Even Endangered slugs aren't allowed to drive cars, or vote, or marry other humans of any gender, or own property, or have bank accounts. And you won't be able to drink beer for damn sure, even if you're over 21 in slug years.
Labels: 20th century Dark Age
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