In the process of this development, these networks assign themselves a physiological form gender; intersex people get a mix of attributes at this stage, but for most people, even for most trans people, this stage almost entirely selects one profile of sexual dimorphism; typically for people with XX chromosomes, this stage selects female, and for people with XY, this stage selects male. However, it’s well known to science and can be looked up that sometimes people can be apparently entirely one body-form and have no desire or urge to transition, and yet have opposite chromosomes from their body’s layout-presentation.
This sounds like you’re talking about the SRY cascade without explicitly naming it. But that process starts at 6-8 weeks. Embryos are screened after 3-7 days of development. There’s no way to see what is happening with the SRY cascade at that stage.
Maybe there are some genes that influence the course it is likely to take? I understand your concern.
But I also think some of this tech could HELP acceptance of trans people. I suspect that many of the people who are anti-trans are at some level worried about its effects on family formation. Without freezing gametes, many trans people will not be able to have biological children after medically transitioning. Gametogenesis could give anyone the ability to have kids if they want them, regardless of their gender identity or transition status. I think that would at least do a little to quell the hate against transgender people (though I understand most of the people who get upset about transgender people are not very rational about their views).
yeah, your counterarguments aren’t entirely implausible. I might be able to be convinced out of my current viewpoint by further debate on the topic of how to ensure that this tech actually has prosocial outcomes. But at least you have a picture of why I’m quite so worried about destructive outcomes and why the name change doesn’t really weigh on it.
without explicitly naming it
I didn’t know about it, I probably had seen things downstream of that research. I’m not a biologist, my bio knowledge has a lot of jump point search flavored holes.
This sounds like you’re talking about the SRY cascade without explicitly naming it. But that process starts at 6-8 weeks. Embryos are screened after 3-7 days of development. There’s no way to see what is happening with the SRY cascade at that stage.
Maybe there are some genes that influence the course it is likely to take? I understand your concern.
But I also think some of this tech could HELP acceptance of trans people. I suspect that many of the people who are anti-trans are at some level worried about its effects on family formation. Without freezing gametes, many trans people will not be able to have biological children after medically transitioning. Gametogenesis could give anyone the ability to have kids if they want them, regardless of their gender identity or transition status. I think that would at least do a little to quell the hate against transgender people (though I understand most of the people who get upset about transgender people are not very rational about their views).
yeah, your counterarguments aren’t entirely implausible. I might be able to be convinced out of my current viewpoint by further debate on the topic of how to ensure that this tech actually has prosocial outcomes. But at least you have a picture of why I’m quite so worried about destructive outcomes and why the name change doesn’t really weigh on it.
I didn’t know about it, I probably had seen things downstream of that research. I’m not a biologist, my bio knowledge has a lot of jump point search flavored holes.