Thread by @AlexandraErin

Related: I had a thought the other day about the "trans is just the thin end of the wedge for transhumanism" take that circulates so often, more often on the Christofascist end of the TERfash continuum one...

https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/1445541332747907073

...which is basically the idea that the point of "the trans agenda" can't simply be that trans people exist and would like rights, because *obviously* trans people don't exist, so we must be hiding some larger agenda, which is: transhumanism.

And the idea is that if we can be used to convince Normal People that bodies are mutable, that your body is a thing you have authority over and can modify or revise or even potentially choose to do without, then something something something... as Ana said, somehow this is bad?

And it says so much about the mindset, the assumption that there is something precious in being STUCK in the body you're born in, that there's something that's sacred that is lost if you're able to remove something about your body that you don't like.

And I remember somebody in a TERF thread recently, arguing for conversion therapy over medical intervention, and they said words to the effect of "The mind is only there to support the body, so the body shouldn't be changed for the sake of the mind."

Here, exact quote:

"The mind really exists to serve the body but these activists are encouraging people to to change the body to suit the mind.
This is wrong the mind needs to be treated"

And that is so backwards to me? I am a mind that has a body, not the other way around.

And I feel like I *get* the people who fear transhumanism as a rejection of "God's design" or whatever, but I don't feel like that viewpoint naturally leads to the kind of bizarre materialism on display here, where consciousness is a servant of the body.

I guess basically, yeah? The only level on which it really makes sense is an extension of the evo psych/alpha male type mindset that says the only point of life is to pass on genes and any other outcome is a failure.

https://twitter.com/JackDeeth/status/1445547162033541129

I think the most hilarious permutation of this I've seen was someone calling Nancy Pelosi a transhumanist and when one of their allies asked in what way, the answer was "All Democrats support radical trans extremism* and that makes them all transhumanists."

*LOL, I wish, right?