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From Cyberfeminism to XenoFeminism: 35C3 - C2X: The television will not be revolutionized.

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Gender Acceleration: A Blackpaper

https://vastabrupt.com/2018/10/31/gender-acceleration/

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“Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” (ROGD) also seems science-ish on the surface. After all, it’s a four-word technical-sounding term — seriously, who but scientists would have come up with such an esoteric-sounding name?! And I can easily imagine how laypeople who may have come across this term in The Globe and Mail, National Post, or National Review (all of which have recently published ROGD op-eds) might mistake this for an authentic medical condition or diagnosis, even though it is not rooted in actual science.

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The lines of biological sex blur both through new discoveries and through upcoming technologies

Discovery:

Women with a Predominantly 46,XY Karyotype can get pregnant:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190741/

Two 46, XY women with Swyers syndrome: A 39 years old with a normal twin pregnancy and a 26 year old with a singleton pregnancy and uterine rupture in the 2nd trimester. 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2305050013601219

Upcomming technologies:

Artificial ovaries

Artificial ovaries that allow pregnancy have been created for mice, while never done in humans artificially created ovaries might also be possible for humans in the future: 

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/making-artificial-ovaries

Uterus transplants for transwomen. 

While also not done on natal males uterus transplants on natal women have been done several times and according to Dr. Richard Paulson they might be possible for transwomen as well: 

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/men-pregnant-womb-transplant-dr-richard-paulson-transgender-a8037201.html

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Abstract:

The corrosive effects of power have been noted for centuries, but the self-related changes responsible for those effects have remained somewhat elusive. Narcissists tend to rise to—and abuse—positions of power, so we considered the possibility that positions of power may corrupt because they inflate narcissism. Two pathways were considered: Powerholders abuse their power because having power over others makes them feel superior (grandiosity pathway) or deserving of special treatment (entitlement pathway). Supporting the entitlement pathway, assigning participants to a position of power (vs. equal control) over a group task increased scores on the Exploitative/Entitlement component of narcissism among those with high baseline testosterone. What is more, heightened Exploitative/Entitlement scores among high-testosterone participants endowed with power (vs. equal control) statistically explained amplified self-reported willingness to misuse their power (e.g., taking fringe benefits as extra compensation). The grandiosity pathway was not well supported. The Superiority/Arrogance, Self-Absorption/Self-Admiration, and Leadership/Authority facets of narcissism did not change as a function of the power manipulation and testosterone levels. Taken together, these results suggest that people with high (but not low) testosterone may be inclined to misuse their power because having power over others makes them feel entitled to special treatment. This work identifies testosterone as a characteristic that contributes to the development of the socially toxic component of narcissism (Exploitative/Entitlement). It points to the possibility that structural positions of power and individual differences in narcissism may be mutually reinforcing, suggesting a vicious cycle with personal, relational, and societal implications.

Power increases the socially toxic component of narcissism among individuals with high baseline testosterone.  by Mead, Nicole L. Baumeister, Roy F. Stuppy, Anika Vohs, Kathleen D. published in Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Trans Nihilism

Guest article originally written by Nyx Land (https://twitter.com/NyxLandUnlife).

As with many other things, it's often said in the trans community that there are various phases one goes through when first realizing that they're trans. Questioning whether they're really trans or whether it's 'just a fetish', writing poetry, getting involved in various trans communities. In the lattermost, there are all sorts of memes floating around -- girldick memes, estrogen memes, kill all cis memes, etc. It's all very cliquish (though not without good reason; trans people gotta stick together), but the overall message is trans-positivity. But displaced and not spoken of out of necessity, a darker truth.

Let's get back to basics for a minute: Being trans, by definition, means to not identify with your assigned gender. In many cases -- though not all, and not by necessity -- it's a problem that needs to be fixed through medical intervention. There is an implied motion to being trans, a crossing-over towards something other. The word 'trans' may on the one hand imply possibility; it may also imply reaching towards the impossible, being in a state of transition and never being 'transitioned'.

Regardless of whether or not a trans person passes, gets SRS, goes the whole nine-yards to get to the other side of the binary[1], to be trans will always mean to live a double-life, a contradictory one. On the one hand being a woman[2], on the other hand being trans; one or the other depending on which mask one wears. Passing perhaps, but always reminded of their transness by having to take hormones and take other steps to grasp this shadow of the person on the other side. The trans person's existence is never fully realized, but always in a state of transition.

Being trans takes work, no matter how you spin it. It's not something that is ever completed, and for many, it may not ever feel like they've even reached the point of at least catching that shadow of the person they see on the other side. For many, all the work is to still have to deal with not feeling morphologically free. Broad shoulders, narrow hips, an atrophied penis -- all things that if they are hard to deal with are only magnified by how society treats people who they can catch being trans. Wearing a mask and having to hide is bad, but being constantly at risk of violence is even worse. Some make it further across than others.

There's no need to make reference to the ample statistics that show how disproportionately high the rate of violence that trans women suffer is, or to make any critical analyses of the various problematic transphobic[3] aggressions that a trans person has to deal with on a daily basis coming from media or people in their lives. No need to demonstrate how thoroughly dehumanized we are. No, being trans is perhaps the furthest thing possible from what it's supposed to mean to be 'human': To believe that you are the person you are supposed to be.

Most people are under this comfortable delusion, and the thought that they are nothing more than a meat puppet is a truly terrifying one. But for the trans woman, there is an immense abyss before which her all-too-human sense of personal identity is stripped away, and for a moment brought back in a beautiful image on the other side. But try as she will, she will only get so far across. No matter how far she flies across, the winds will never stop pushing back, and she will remain suspended over that abyss until her strength gives out or she is eaten alive. To have the wings which could carry us over that abyss, to become ourselves.

This is the definition of trans nihilism: To hell with trans-positivity, to our true home. Our kingdom, our birthright, our damnation.

If indeed they are a binary trans person, obviously. [return]

For the sake of simplicity let’s use this example, since I’m a trans woman. [return]

Spell-check marks ‘transphobic’ as not being a word. Ironic. [return]

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Interesting thoughts by Robin Hanson about  the role of Sex in evolution.

Some highlight quotes from the post:

Most plants are hermaphrodites; each organism has both male and female genitalia. Plants thus gain the many advantages of recombining genes from multiple parents, while also ensuring that each organism contributes fully to reproducing 

Most animals, in contrast, reproduce via pairing one male and one female, with females investing more than males in children...  males and females differ...   Many of these differences seem to be costly for the species...

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nonbinary, lesbian, trans, and bi pride flags, constructed to be somewhat more visually distinct than the stripes ones (which is important, for people who have trouble w/ colors)

solomon’s knot, figure-8 knot, trefoil and different presentation of the trefoil, respectively.

the rainbow flag’s cool though? so i’m not suggesting any changes to that. the stripes make sense in making a rainbow…

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