Leading transplant expert says her team could put wombs in TRANS WOMEN

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[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's a logical fallacy and not a proof of impossibility.

You should demonstrate some unchangeable mechanism in the human body which makes this impossible. For example, I think it's probably possible to find some mechanism to completely disable the Y-chromosome, which would have the same effect as replacing the Y-chromosome with an X-chromosome. In car analogies that would be the same as pouring concrete over the gas pedal to make it impossible to move the car. The biotechnology required for just disabling a Y-chromosome in a single cell probably is less than 5 years away if it isn't literally an afternoon amount of work. In fact, based on my knowledge of biology I think I already identified a solution in less than 30 seconds to do that. For example, one could just replace all the start codons in the Y-chromosome with stop codons and no proteins will ever be created in the cell.

If one would then combine such a method with a viral vector, you are essentially already there for a trans "medicine", which indeed is a horrible invention. Making the solution permanent would not require much more work.

[–]hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In fact, based on my knowledge of biology I think I already identified a solution in less than 30 seconds to do that.

Then seriously, you should pursue that innovation. If you can do it, your family won't have to worry about money for several generations.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't see how it would make money unless I had a database with people willing to pay for a real transition and enough funding with large pharmaceutical company contacts.

Genetic engineering isn't even applied in the real world at scale, because apparently doctors just love to continue to have people suffering, because otherwise by now everyone with some disease involving point mutations would have been cured by now.

Similarly, genetic enhancements have been identified to make people breathe more efficiently to make everyone a super athlete, but none of those innovations have been made available to the general public.

Meanwhile, you are suggesting this would be the invention that is going to make money. Well, I don't think so.

I likely won't have a family, so there is no point in accumulating money beyond my current assets. It turns out humanity hates people with excess intelligence.