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[–]PlayCardsNotPeople 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

That is such an excellent article.

I'd like to point out that earlier this week there was a picture of post about someone wanting a womb transplant and we were all laughing at the absurdity. And now:

These surgeries are already being practiced on animals and the first successful womb implant from a deceased female donor to another female has already been a success. Biogenetics is poised to be the investment of the future, says Rothblatt, who has headed a massive pharmaceutical corporation and is now heavily invested in biogenetics and transplants.

I don't look forward to next week's grazy pic only to find out that someone, somewhere is working on making it a reality.

[–]sisterinsomnia 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Where are all the wombs going to come from???????

[–]IridescentAnaconda 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Of course this is mostly about marketing drugs that would otherwise not be necessary.

It is also important to note that though the trans lobby has sewn itself to the LGB umbrella, LGB people as such are not lifelong medical patients.

Strictly speaking I don't even think this is true. Over the last 5 or so years, from the sidelines I've watched as PrEP has become the norm in the gay male community. Basically, take expensive and toxic retrovirals for the rest of your sexually active life so that you can have the kind of promiscuous, unsafe sex popularized in the 70s but truncated because of HIV. It's not like that will exert evolutionary pressure on the virus to create resistant strains, not at all.

[–]Otak 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

this is mostly about marketing drugs that would otherwise not be necessary

So it's a trans-industrial complex.