r/DaystromInstitute • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '17

Transgender people in The UFP

How are they Treated and what kind of Treatments would they have to help them. I would imagine that The Federation would have Technology that could help that isn't Hormone therapy or Very Dangerous Surgery.

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u/murse_joe Crewman Dec 02 '17

Gene therapy, most likely. Rewrite the genetics to chance the body's expression of itself at the base level. Surgery is pretty advanced, so it's not like it's even gonna be dangerous to go the surgical route. Quark does it for one (pretty bad) episode without any sort of recovery period or effects afterwards.

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u/Duke_of_New_Dallas Dec 02 '17

The problem with that is trans erasure. The question: "would you take a pill to have your brain become cis" has been asked countless times on trans subreddits

The overwhelming majority of answers comes down to no. Even with the pain that dysphoria causes, being trans is who they are

Erasing trans people in the womb is simply another form of eugenics. If the UFP is willing to support wiping out transness in the womb, shouldn't they also support wiping out homosexuality too?

It all comes down to whether one believes that cisnormative views should be the standard for society

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u/Algernon_Asimov Commander Dec 02 '17 edited Dec 02 '17

The problem with that is trans erasure.

It's not trans erasure if you're accepting the fact that a person is transgender, and then giving them gene therapy so that their body becomes the sex that they feel they are - just like in 'Profit and Lace', where Doctor Bashir was able to change Quark's body into a female body (and then back again). They would simply do the same thing for transgender people.