/tech/ - Technology

Short story - "If We Could Change Our Existence".

Preface:
As you have noted, I'm a gender-critical feminist who is supportive towards JK Rowling, but it doesn't bother me from writing a short novel about genderless society in the future. Note that I will never support the degenerate measures that are promoted today, as the another way to subjugate women. But even second-wave feminists thought that gender roles is the main reason for most women's unhappiness.

Chapter 1:
It's 2500, sex change is not what it used to be. Somewhere in 2020 for instance, sex change used to be painful, ineffective, people dissatisfied with the results used to commit suicide, people undergoing transitions were disliked by a lot of people, who didn't undergo these (frankly at times not unlike the witchers in Andrzej Sapkowski's books), the treatment itself was not unlike lobotomy of the 1950s etc.
But these times belong to the past now, as the new technology emerged. And this new technology enables everything, from changing body parts to biological functions of thereof. As Yuval Noah Harari predicted, we are now hackable animals and yes, even body parts and its biological functions are now effectively hackable.
Now one can change the vagina into the penis and viceversa, now one can stop having periods or nocturnal emissions, one can have high pitched voice or low pitched voice for both new "genders". Sex can be also binary and you can be either biologically-wise a man, or biologically-wise a woman. Also, the transition is perfectly reversible, as there are no awful side effects from undergoing what is now called "enhanced biology modification" or "EBM". Also one can decide, if they are gonna be fertile or infertile, via the new "EBM" technology. Now nobody questions the existence of transpeople, everybody is content and not divided. Seems like it's the happy time, when all the religions (especially those keeping the binary gender roles) are deceased and no longer enforced.

Chapter 2:
Yet there might arise some problems. For example, if hypothetically a man raped a woman in his past life and then transitioned, how is it going to be solved? There are still ethical questions being raised from all of this. It technically could be solved with convicting and jailing the individual offender, of course if the law enforcement worked, properly. One issue would be settled for sure: men in the past lives will be always mental men and women in the past lives would be always mental women. Even in 2020, transgender folks had their own worldviews based on their past life as "assigned at birth biological sex". People would be smart enough, not to deny their past life, as one of the binary biological sexes. The trauma from world wars and illicit use of AI, hopefully taught them a lesson.
How would women's sports be organized? How would men's sports be organized? It would be easy. If an individual competing against other competitors used to be biologically either of those binary sexes, would be disqualified, due to disadvantages or advantages during the competitions. Yet in the modern society, more people would be likely to compete in the genderless competitions, perform the genderless jobs, because the "EBM" is now reversible and one can become a girl or a boy overnight, without painful outcomes.
In these societies rapes don't even exist, as childbirth for women isn't painful, gender roles are not binary and houses are more affordable due to better resources than wood (e.g. 3d printing, carbon fiber etc.)

Chapter 3:
If childbirth is not effective enough for repopulating the societies, then there are artificial wombs for that purpose. Of course, sadly children during the beginning of this technology were sold, even to the pedophiles, but thanks to the campaigns, it's not as permissible as it used to be in 2400. But in the modern world, even countries and borders are not existent. One is free to travel anywhere, without special documents and religious/third-world stigma.
Not even religions that oppressed women and non-believers, for instance are existing. People know better, like they know what is ethical for animals and what is not.

Chapter 4:
People seem to be happy with this existence (like they used to be with AI in its peak during the 2020s).
They don't know better, they were raised in this world.
Now they are numbers, not even names. Their job is to see, how AI is doing the jobs for them. The only thing they have left is being a jester in front of the new oligarchs.

THE END