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It's probably inspired from that story - Alien universe is a dystopian world with murderous robots and bio engineered horrors made by people who wished to play god. I would say that even if real sex change is possible, whatever happened in alien only showed that people are still exploited and changed to serve the corporate goons and the ruling class. Transitioning doesn't really change sex, but it is everything to serve corporate goons, they are walking footsoldiers for this exploitation. Medical industry is riding its gravy train and troonism is about upholding rigid gender norms - they are transitioning to embody a symbol that they think men/women should be like, instead of letting life be.I think that was a nod to the likes of john money and the mutilation of intersex babies through an old school feminist lens. I mean, it's a movie series about a bio engineered penis-head monster stalking raping and impregnating everything in it's way and megacorp goons playing good trying to achieve it's "perfection". So i can see that they might have been trying to fit those butchers who were playing god on these intersex children into it. That John money stuff made some news exactly at that time. It may be simpler than we think.
I know a lot of Kiwi-ers wouldn't like this particular part of my opinion, but I do think there are aspects of sex and gender that are malleable and culturally defined, and problems with sticking strictly to binary. But I came with a completely opposite conclusions from troons even with the base idea of malleability of sex - troons are about using that argument as a justification for their obsession of identity, skinwalking and fetish of conquering. If your philosophy say that something isn't real, maybe you should stop caring about it instead of making everything about yourself about it.
My point still stands though, that if real sex change became possible, than a lot of troons might not do it because they'd lose their special status. they'd have a body of a boring cis, and there's no sense of transgression in that.
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