The Biology of Sex - When Will Society Catch Up To Biologists?

What do YOU think?

That we should all aim to develop a technology to allow us to grow fully-functional bodies custom-fit to match what one would want, and technology to transfer our minds into those bodies easily, with both being cheap enough that anyone who would have a reason for that would be able to afford it easily but also safe-guarded so that it's used by people who do need it (you know, people with missing limbs or seeing/hearing problems, people with internal organ failures, transgender people, etc.) rather than everyone (so that the accusations that it's used by people avoiding prosecution or stuff like that would be avoided).

Then, we should let every transgender person use that to change their bodies, change their gender to one matching their now not wrong biological sex, and be done with the idiocy that is substandard treatment of transgender people.

But obviously the above bit won't happen for a very long time, if ever. So let's downgrade it to having gender therapists who actually know how to do their job and can be accessed by anyone who thinks they have those problems with their bodies regardless of their age or gender and don't gatekeep, to having support for HRT and SRS and the related in-between stuff, and to having a temporary ID available only to those people but to all of those people denoting gender change in the process that would also list their future names that could be used during transition for the stupid stuff like bathroom access or changing room access (no predators let in if truly transgender people can actually be IDed in a reliable and non-invasive way, right?) with the gender changed on all the documents once they get far enough into it. And to having people to whom a transgender person, or any other person with serious problems with any sort, could talk to without being judged or ignored and who would be there to show them that someone cares and that they aren't alone and who would be there to hug them if they needed it because some people don't even get that much from life.

As for assigning sex, if they clash then the choice should be based on what the person identifies as, shouldn't it? Oh, wait, here's a fun thing to go with this: many (if not all) technically biologically male people have XX chromosomes in some cells on their body, even if just a few, and many (again, if not all) technically biologically female people have XY chromosomes in some cells on their body, even if just a few too. Which basically means it should always be down to what the person identifies with, really. Biology is weird, and so are random mutations during one's life.

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