Sidaway - "It's not just that the authors a cavalier about the dangers to the unborn child (though that's evil of course). It's that they don't even see it as harm - instead they see wanting a "normal" baby as "problematic". So cis-heteronormative. They want a "queer" baby! Born trans, straight out of the womb."
You are right and this is something that many people reacting to this on social media cannot grasp, precisely because it is positively deranged and evil to laud the possibility of creating new humans with complex, life-long and sometimes life-limiting or life-threatening medical conditions.
The authors, the whole Queer Project, despite their professed focus on "gender" and "gender identity" cannot see beyond their obsession with "queering" biological sex, secondary sexual characteristics, sexuality and sexual behaviour - especially involving children and now infants and foetuses.
The politicisation of DSDs as "intersex" is central, not just for supposed validation of "transness" but as the ultimate challenge to "cis-heteronormativity" - also they are racist, so bonus points if the baby is Black with a capital B.
"The study involved a cross-sectional in-depth individual and focus group interview design, specifically the collection of qualitative interviews with 70 trans people . . .
A purposive sampling technique was employed to obtain participants using social media and social network recruitment, including targeted recruitment distributed to groups comprised of trans people of color. Research informational and recruitment flyers were posted to social media accounts (e.g., private and public Facebook groups, Twitter), shared at community conferences and events, and circulated via researcher and participant networks. . . .
Trans participants in the U.S. and Canada were paid $25-$50 to participate; participants of color were compensated at a higher rate due to targeted recruitment aims for the study and to reflect structural constraints to participation (e.g., U.S. history of racist research exploitation and increased requests for participation) faced by people of color. Trans participants in the European Union and Australia were not compensated for their participation. This reflected research norms at the institutions where ethical approval was granted, given concerns about compensation for participation in social research as a form of potential coercion"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321523000811?via%3Dihub
The historical blindness of the researchers is staggering. No sooner have medical institutions apologised for the appalling, targeted exploitation of enslaved black women in past experiments in gynaecology than these researchers target recruitment of "trans people of color".
The ‘Father of Modern Gynecology’ Performed Shocking Experiments on Enslaved Women
His use of Black bodies as medical test subjects falls into a history that includes the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and Henrietta Lacks.
https://www.history.com/news/the-father-of-modern-gynecology-performed-shocking-experiments-on-slaves
Barry Wall @EDIJester has done a video about the "Medical uncertainty and reproduction of the “normal”: Decision-making around testosterone therapy in transgender pregnancy" paper.
"The Unborn are Next, This is Beyond Revolting"
As usual, well worth less than 15 minutes of your time.
This comment says everything that I think a lot of us are feeling:
Eve.n.t_horizon
I say this with the utmost seriousness and gravity.
I say this as someone who lives in a former fascist nation. I say this as someone that did study properly the subject in school, as its a big part of our normal curriculum, with people still alive today that lived through it:
This is worse than nazi Germany, this is worse than nazism.
Nazism was a rational (not in the common sense of sound ratio, but it had internal reasoning) of racist people with a grievance and thirst for power, things any sane mind can have (and why they are so scary to us, they show us how WE could be).
It showed us how mentally sane people can take a road that goes to hell, and not notice how they got there. It was evil, but not mental illness, in fact it tried its best to speak to the 'rationality' in people, using their naiveté, ignorance and fear to its advantage, to a dark and abhorrent goal.
This, instead, is mental illness to a degree human consciousness has only seen a glimpse of in Lovecraft novels.
Something beyond comprehension, beyond reason, beyond sanity.
It's something words fail to grasp or describe, a horror that keeps being made anew, a complete and total destruction of reality, up and beyond its fundamental elements. Just like Lovecraft said.
This is dissolution of man, with the excuse of having something better (never specifying or showing what though, mind you).
This is the incarnation of spite, rage, fury, contempt, disgust and blind destruction.
And not even the organic destruction which would be the other side of creation.
There is no creation here, just corruption.
One step at a time. Incremental at first (oh how I miss those times), then exponential.
We will never be the same as a species, that is obvious.
Like we were never the same after the nazis, but this feels even more fundamental. This is epochal, this is existential, literally about existence, and against it:
Transpeople have a high suicidal rate, but thats not enough, everyone else has to go with them, in the ultimate act of narcissism.
The men, the women, and the children too.
Transhumanism is literally 'beyond humanity', with no future for humanity as itself.
It didn't use to be that way, it was supposed to be just about some cool augments like a robot arm for the handicapped, or a new way to see for the blind.
But like everything else touched by the ideology, it got corrupted, into its worst version, and then amplified to the world stage.
And whats scarier:
When you have an infection, a fever is how your body reacts, and sure, sometimes the fever might kill you so you have to temp it down.
But you know whats worse? An infection with no fever. A body that doesn't fight. An immune system being slip by, never enough 'triggered' to react accordingly.
Will we reach the fever, now? Will there be the hot flash like in ww2? Or will the illness be allowed to linger, instead? We are not suited for war anymore, that fire bred out of us, taught out of us, ashamed and bashed.
Just like we didn't know what would happen when the atom bomb was invented, and everything changed, I don't have an answer to this new change, which may be even bigger.
We are at the cusp of history, and I'm scared.