Posted: May 27, 2011 10:26 pm
amok wrote:Anyway, when I first read this story I thought it would provoke disapproval for such reasons as "the child can't consent to the experiment" and the risk of it growing up without a sense of "self" and whatnot (some of that is mentioned in the story). But if we're logical about it, none of us "consent" to the way we're raised, and plenty of people raised in the most "traditional" ways of any culture are severely messed up. So neither of those arguments are valid, in my opinion.
+1.
I say good on 'em. Enforced gender identity is bollox, and the sooner it's disposed of the better. When you think about it, how often do you actually need to know what genitalia the people you mix with or work with in society have?
It's a small beginning, but from little acorns and all that...