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My view is why have people put themselves in boxes in the first place.  I'd like to see deemphasis on gender and sex.  Modern life is much more complex than in past times and with the global population plenty high, sex has pretty much done its thing already.  Anyway, everyone may as well be unisex and if we need a few new people, they could be cloned based upon some kind of fair system that should be worked out.  Further, everyone should be able to get gene therapy to transform into basically a chimaera that is immune to aging and illnesses.  Then sex would be even more irreverent.

(May 15, 2016 02:00 PM)elte Wrote: [ -> ]http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-05-ge...asier.html

My view is why have people put themselves in boxes in the first place. I'd like to see deemphasis on gender and sex. Modern life is much more complex than in past times and with the global population plenty high, sex has pretty much done its thing already. Anyway, everyone may as well be unisex and if we need a few new people, they could be cloned based upon some kind of fair system that should be worked out. Further, everyone should be able to get gene therapy to transform into basically a chimaera that is immune to aging and illnesses. Then sex would be even more irreverent.

That old episode of STNG titled The Outcast is one thing I was trying to remember:

"The Enterprise is contacted by a humanoid race called the J'naii. They are a race that have no gender. [...] Soren explains that the J'naii are an androgynous species that view the expression of any sort of male or female gender, and especially sexual liaisons, as a sexual perversion. According to their official doctrine, the J'naii had evolved beyond gender and thus view the idea of male/female sexuality as primitive."