Transhumanism and Geiger Counter Gender

The thing I hate most about transhumanism discourse are the appeals to "humanity". Like, "are you less human if you change your cybernetics?" and "does it affect your humanity if you change your genes?" And I just... Look man, I'm trans, disabled, and autistic. Half the world already barely considers me human, on a good day. So I don't think it makes sense to get mad at me for wanting fangs and a gender you can pick up on a Geiger counter. You're yelling about this being a slippery slope, and meanwhile you pushed me down it. You can't justify annoyance at me deciding to go "weeee" all the way down.

A text-post meme jokes about transhumanism by combining queer identity, disability, autism, fangs, and a radioactive “Geiger counter” gender. The punchline turns the “slippery slope” accusation around: since society already treats the speaker as less than human, they may as well enthusiastically embrace fantastical body modification and nonhuman identity as a reaction to moral panic. EN: A text-post meme jokes about transhumanism by combining queer identity, disability, autism, fangs, and a radioactive “Geiger counter” gender. The punchline turns the “slippery slope” accusation around: since society already treats the speaker as less than human, they may as well enthusiastically embrace fantastical body modification and nonhuman identity as a reaction to moral panic.

• @rzeczyzabawne / 9442 2023-05-23