i guess transhumanism is a rising philosophy, about modifying the body, sometimes radically, to suit oneself, and i'd guess a lot of people into extreme body modification would be into this form of thinking, and i guess an empowering way to think about transgenderism or genderqueer is to say that the body is one's own to change if it doesn't fit/suffice. (rather than the more outmoded idea of the born body as "natural" - which feminism in the 70s & onwards pushed very strongly to combat ideas about breast implants, plastic surgery, etc.)
i reckon recently, some people are getting into modifying their body gender-wise more from experimentation (the zeitgeist of the thing) than dysphoria. i mean even i've seriously wondered what it'd be like if i took some T and i don't have gender dysphoria. i guess also there's always some people who get heaps of piercings and tatts etc so they're committedly uber hardcore, and i reckon there's some ppl running around (hello, dyke scene) with the same attitude to hormones and surgery. some, of course not all. (also heard that anorexia is a form of body modding.)
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i guess transhumanism is a rising philosophy, about modifying the body, sometimes radically, to suit oneself, and i'd guess a lot of people into extreme body modification would be into this form of thinking, and i guess an empowering way to think about transgenderism or genderqueer is to say that the body is one's own to change if it doesn't fit/suffice. (rather than the more outmoded idea of the born body as "natural" - which feminism in the 70s & onwards pushed very strongly to combat ideas about breast implants, plastic surgery, etc.)
i reckon recently, some people are getting into modifying their body gender-wise more from experimentation (the zeitgeist of the thing) than dysphoria. i mean even i've seriously wondered what it'd be like if i took some T and i don't have gender dysphoria. i guess also there's always some people who get heaps of piercings and tatts etc so they're committedly uber hardcore, and i reckon there's some ppl running around (hello, dyke scene) with the same attitude to hormones and surgery. some, of course not all. (also heard that anorexia is a form of body modding.)