Transfer their consciousness into a toaster oven
In the interests of snark, I am sharing one of the many withering comments to the Slate article I posted earlier today.
Jun 29, 2014
The practice of assigning gender by making a judgement solely on genitalia is barbaric which is why, for our part, my significant other and I will be sewing our child’s legs together in-utero. Is it risky? Sure, but not as risky as telling our child that their identity in any way derives from their hormonal balance, genitalia, phenotype, or natural characteristics. It’s just sad that in this day and age we’d be so reckless as to limit a baby girl’s potential by telling them they are in fact female. I mean, how incredibly disrespectful of future possibilities and outcomes! That’s like saying an empty lot has no house built upon it, or telling a crocodile it isn’t a lion. Who are we to judge such things? Who put us in charge?
Stating the facts of a situation precludes the possibility for change in the status-quo. I’m glad someone is pointing out the obviously strong tie of correlation to causation between suicide and the acknowledgement of the physical and biological characteristics of newborn children.
I also would like to humbly correct the author in pointing out that it’s not quite fair to expect that all children born human will want to remain human forever. Who are we to needlessly preempt them by ruling out the possibility that they will want to undergo extensive surgeries to be transformed into a house cat, or experimental procedures to transfer their consciousness into a toaster oven? We are stupidly naive to think that just because we chose to live our lives as human that our children will want to do the same. We could challenge the very notion that being either male or female in any way defrauds, choosing instead to see it as an empowering starting place for lifelong metamorphosis. But who are we kidding - being told you’re male in this sick society will always mean being a chauvinistic womanizer, and being female will always mark baby girls as being weaker in the eyes of our oppressive sex-obsessed culture.
The only solution is to put an end to the possibility of sex at the start - by birthing an entire generation of androgynous children as free and devoid of influence, as the only acceptable and true morality - because realistically, who can say what is right? Who can say what is wrong? Who can say what makes a boy a boy, or that a girl is a girl, or that a human isn’t a paperclip, or that biology in any way contributes to our experience on this earth? The facts are the facts: 100% of people who commit suicide were at one time told they were either a boy or a girl, so we must stop this ridiculous practice.