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The tragedy of all of this:
I am - and pretty much always have been - firmly in favor of people being able to resleeve in the classic scifi style. I used to be open about this.
The current discourse around the subject? Has been actively counterproductive, and strongly so: I will not state the above in a non-anonymous setting. Full stop. (And even in an anon. setting I will not state the above without the full explanation, and am typically loathe to do so even then.)
Why?
Because instead of acknowledging - and working to overcome - the limitations and risks of the current technology, the discourse has largely been to:
a) suppress any research or studies showing the limitations and risks of the current technology.
b) suppress any research into improving said technology (mainly indirectly via the prior point)
c) attempt to gaslight others around them into pretending the current technology is resleeving in the classic scifi style.
d) attempting to press the current technology onto people who do not yet have the ability to fully grok the risk involved in said current technology.
If we had sex-change technology such that it was externally indistinguishable, fully functional, and fully reversible? I would be 100% for it.
If it wasn't, but was still fully reversible? I'd still be for it.
If it was externally indistinguishable, and fully functional, but not fully reversible? I'd be for it for consenting adults. (Though this scenario would be somewhat odd: if you had the tech to transition both ways why couldn't you do both in sequence?)
Unfortunately, what we have now is none of the above, to people who our society has otherwise deemed incapable of making irreversible decisions.
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