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Do You Really Think We'll Have Genders in the Future?

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Re: Do You Really Think We'll Have Genders in the Future?

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For a lot of this stuff, I find it helps to separate the concept from the implementation: Imagine how different current debates over transgender stuff would be if it was an atomically-perfect and reversible transformation done by benevolent genie.

> when I see futurists or transhumanists talk about a timeline where humans are uploaded or become cyborgs or whatever, and then they turn around and say stuff like “feminism is bad”, I am utterly baffled.

I think some of them really just want to live forever in a conventionally beautiful body with superpowers.

Sure, Chad Jockson III might temporarily transmit his mind at light speed to Alpha Centauri, but when he gets there he expects to re-inhabit a pretty-similar body.

Re: Do You Really Think We'll Have Genders in the Future?

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If sex is the physical construct and gender is the social construct, seems reasonable to assume that both gender and transgenderism could disappear. One seems mostly like a reaction to the other and both may end up being cultural artifacts.

I think the physical construct still has many millennia of evolution to go before we might see it disappear.