What ever happened to the transhumanists?

Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by space_fountain on Saturday August 06, 2022 @02:11AM (#32365405)

The human race isn’t in an immediate danger of dying out for lack of babies. People are allowed to and do take many actions with a risk of sterilization. For goodness sake’s people get vasectomies and their tubes tied. This can’t be about fertility or else you should be out campaigning against the pill, condoms, and just plain old normal drinking. Also do you imagine grafting electronics, really progress of any kind to be free of risks? Honestly, I’m sort of anti cyberpunk, because that sort of body modification is on a whole different level of risk

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by yarg on Saturday August 06, 2022 @02:27AM (#32365483)

I can assure you, my only concern here is inate fertility - (idiocracy aside) I don't give a shit about people deciding not to have children.

As for the danger, population collapse is often precipitous - and by the time you notice it, is very hard to roll back.

And it's not just our species impacted by the changes.

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by space_fountain on Saturday August 06, 2022 @02:51AM (#32365620)

Ok, so are you also against birth control and or opt in sterilization, otherwise your position is inconsistent and I don’t claim morals are logic, but they should at least be consistent.

Oh also since we’re on a technicality forum. Trans hormones don’t necessarily cause permanent sterilization. Plenty of trans people have children

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by ungamedplayer on Saturday August 06, 2022 @03:06AM (#32365712)

Citation for plenty needed.

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by simonh on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:40AM (#32366206)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295192.2020.1...

> Of the adult trans population, between 25% and 49% of individuals are believed to be parents (Dierckx, Motmans, Mortelmans, & T’sjoen, 2016)

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by rpdillon on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:50AM (#32367260)

Parenthood doesn't imply fertility. From that link:

> Trans parents may form their families in a range of ways, including through biological parenthood, step-parenthood, adoption, fostering, and assisted reproduction, with an increasing number of options available to trans people wishing to become parents.

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by simonh on Saturday August 06, 2022 @08:16AM (#32367424)

So what? Human societies have always and everywhere included multiple modes of parenthood. I don't understand this obsession with personal biological reproduction. That's not how human societies work. Adoption, fostering, etc are an important part of social sustainability and always have been.

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by rpdillon on Saturday August 06, 2022 @11:38AM (#32369025)

The original assertion was about fertility:

> Trans hormones don’t necessarily cause permanent sterilization. Plenty of trans people have children

I was just pointing out that the evidence provided with the 25% number doesn't really speak to fertility, but rather all the possible ways of having children.

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by ungamedplayer on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:00AM (#32366630)

That was much higher than I had expected.

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by simonh on Saturday August 06, 2022 @08:17AM (#32367433)

Me too, but I suppose being trans doesn't eliminate all the other aspects of human behaviour and psychology, including the desire to have or care for children.

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by space_fountain on Saturday August 06, 2022 @01:42PM (#32370060)

I don’t think there is great science on this but here’s a paper focusing on tactics to preserve fertility https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6626312/. It gives rates as high as 100% for mtf fertility (and as low as 25). And I may have missed it, but doesn’t seem to for trans men. Stories of trans men pausing hormones to have a kid are anecdotally pretty common though

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by cycomanic on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:01AM (#32366634)

Population collapse is likely not going to come from too many people becoming steralized (I mean what percentages are we talk g about here, there would have to be a massive growth to even make a measurable dent into populations). Typical population collapse in biological systems comes from overpopulation that cannot be sustained by the ecosystem, which results in the sudden collapse. When we talk about the survival of the human race people not having children are likely a net positive, but somehow I get the impression that's not really what your opposition to gender conversion is about

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Re:What ever happened to the transhumanists? by antifa on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:57AM (#32367300)

> Population collapse is likely not going to come from too many people becoming steralized

And if it did, it would probably be from something like pollution/climate change, not a tiny minority of trans people.

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