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Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour

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“Resistance to what amounts to a technological religious cult being orchestrated through the very technology those in power want to meld us with, must become a love story for our time. Defiance against our enslavement to a mechanised life, and protection of the children who will inhabit this earth and hopefully their bodies after we're gone, should fuel exhilaration not despair. We have but one life and if we use it to help each other, then failure is impossible.”

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“Autogynophilia reduces women's sexed humanity to parts available for purchase, as all aspects of the sex industries do. Support is flourishing for this development under a human rights framework, while woman are being erased in language and law, and the men with this paraphilia are given more prominence.”

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“Humans are connected to the biosphere by sex. The deconstruction of sex in language and law, its separation from intimacy via fetish and porn, the manipulation of young people's sex characteristics, seem to pave the way for further encroachment into our biology and our more complete melding with technology. Synthetic sexes work as a grooming process for the public to accept more violations of our physical boundaries while also providing young, healthy, resilient bodies to experiment on.”

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“Transexualism is primarily an adult male fetish that compulsively objectifies and covets womanhood. Men with autogynephilia (the professional name for this form of transexualism) seek to medically appropriate the sexed humanity of women by purchasing surgical simulacrums of their sexed reality in parts to assuage their compulsion. [...] the transhumanist agenda sees immortality as its ultimate end goal and splits the mind from the body, like most patriarchal religions.”

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“Young girls learn this hatred of themselves and play out all manner of psycho-social disorders to inflict pain on their sexed bodies. They cut their skin and starve themselves, which is seen as an aberration, a mental disease. Yet, when they graduate to selling their bodies for sex to pay college tuition and/or to stay alive, selling their eggs for profit, selling their wombs as vessels for purchased babies, to feed their families and cut off their breasts so they can identify as men, these self-inflicted wounds, under the great god of techno-capitalism, becomes progressive.”

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“The poetry reading promoted an anthology celebrating the varied voices of the United States. The evening's readers represented several races and ethnicities, a kind of attention to inclusivity I admired. But a few days before my flight, I found out that I was the roster's only woman. I brought this to the attention of the event coordinators, and they said it was too late to correct the lack of gender equity. As a concession, they said that I and the other readers should make a point of reading others' poems to that end. When I joined the seven male readers at the venue, the organizers reminded us of our time limit and suggested I read first. I read my poem from the anthology, as well as one poem each by two other women: a wry, pointed poem by Jane Mead and a focused, hopeful poem by Audre Lorde. I kept to the specified time limit. Then I sat down. Like an obedient girl. The men at the podium, every one, read over their times. They read their own poems from the anthology. Then they read others. Not others as in other people's - women's - poems, which was the idea conveyed to me. No. These men read other poems of their own. I'd flown to New York to read a single poem of my own and watch men drown out my voice and the voices of all the other women in the book.”

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