@Deepland Bystander the conditions we have been arguing about are a tiny minority of DSDs though. They stick out precisely because they are the interesting ones that are worth arguing over. Most people with DSDs are very clearly male or female.
These are thought experiments with no connection to human reality. We don't have cybernetic bodies and probably never will. Our consciousness is an epiphenomenon of our squishy meat bodies, you can't pluck a brain out of that and expect it to function in any recognizable way. We still can't even do
transplants very well.
We are far less likely to see cool cybernetic bodies in the future and far more likely to see quasi-organ farming, if anything. I guess the best we can hope for is that people figure out how to grow the organs separately and don't keep them attached to people (ini some form) beforehand.
(if you were prone to that kind of thinking you might wonder whether part of the top-down push towards making it socially acceptable to remove healthy organs from young people might have a purpose related to this)
Anyway, if anyone is interested in some interesting reading,
I found the full text of Martine Rothblatt's 2011 book online. It's funny how it only took ten years and a few billion dollars in funding for the ideas in the book to filter down to your average gender true believer. The creepiest part is skimming through it and recognizing arguments you've seen people recite almost word for word. For example:
"First, it is not true that all legally defined women are XX and all legally defined men are XY. Hundreds of thousands of people are born with all manner of chromosomal variations, including XXY and X, among others. The Olympics has ceased using chromosomal tests for a second X as a means of disqualifying women, after certain athletes—namely, persons with a vagina, a lifelong “female” gender identity, and but one X chromosome—were cruelly disqualified right at the quadrennial event. Similarly, the famous transsexual Renee Richards was ordered by a judge to be accepted into women’s tennis competition despite her XY chromosome makeup. The judge found her no different from any other ovariectomized and hysterectomized woman. Chromosomes are an unreliable means of classifying society into two sexes. They argue better for a continuum of sex types."
From a billionaire transsexual in 2011 to your average Redditor in 2022. You gotta laugh, I suppose.
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You just can't make this up
