Our recently completed survey of WTA members found that 2-3% are transgendered, which means a transhumanist is about a 1000 times more likely to be transgendered than a non-transhumanist. Which makes sense since, as
Vanessa Edwards Foster, the Chair of the
National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) says, transsexuals were transhumanist pioneers. And check out
this article from ChinaDaily about the dramatic coming out of mainland Chinese TS/TG culture, partly due to the dramatic and very public transformation of a high-ranking Chinese army general into the very popular, and very attractive, dancer Jin Xing. The article points out that the classic Taoist idea of sexual and especially seminal conservation as a means to longevity had a corrolary in the idea of castration as a way to enhance magical power.
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