ankara writes:
> "When we no longer ask 'boy or girl?' in order to start gendering an infant,
Funny, I thought infants were gendered at conception. You can't change
an intact person's gender by upbringing nor surgery.
> when the information is as irrelevant as the color of the child's eye (but not
> yet the color of skin), then and only then will women and men be socially
If you want to make it irrelevant, unify the karyotype, or mess with
genes driving brain morphogenesis, or use nano to change the brain in
vivo.
> interchangeable and really equal. And when that happens there will no longer
> be any need for gender at all."
There will be no need for gender if there will be no need for
nurturing, people have stripped sexual dimorphism atavisms and sexual
selection creates no new one after the carnevale.
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