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From Transgender to Transhuman

Started by Shana A, April 19, 2010, 08:59:14 PM

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Shana A

April 19, 2010, 08:59:14 PM
Sunday, April 18, 2010
From Transgender to Transhuman
Martine Rothblatt

http://transgender2transhuman.blogspot.com/2010/04/from-transgender-to-transhuman.html

At the end of the first decade of the 20th century after Christ's birth, religiously-inspired apartheid of sex is strong in certain respects, but is crumbling in many aspects. Three thousand, eight hundred years after male-or-female gender roles were first legally mandated in Babylonia's Hammurabic Code, similar laws continue to demand adherence to rigidly dualistic sex-typing. On the other hand, the Modern World's Internet Code is awash with a rainbow of gender identities.

Under an onslaught of science, secular ethics and software ->-bleeped-<-, the once impenetrable fortress of sexual duality is falling apart. A dozen years ago, when the first edition of this book predicted the demise of sexual apartheid, no country in the world permitted marriage without regard to gender. Today, gender-blind marriage is authorized in seven countries and several American states:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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