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The future of gender in transhumanist science fiction
Šporčič, Anamarija
While gender remains one of the primary characteristics that shape the relations of power in our society, our understanding and treatment of it have changed and evolved significantly throughout ...history. With the emergence of the transhumanist movement and its focus on technological advancement as key to human progress, new possibilities for transcending the division and inequality between genders arise. Postgenderism, as a school of thought within transhumanism, also aims to improve the human condition through the use of reason and technology, but is doing so by attempting to eliminate involuntary biological and psychological gendering through the application of neurotechnology, biotechnology and reproductive technologies. Postgenderism anticipates a world in which gender is to become fluid or completely disappear as a category, with all gender-related characteristics gaining an autonomous existence. Martine Rothblatt, one of the leading transhumanists dealing with gender, believes that the currently popular approach to perceiving gender as a continuum could be upgraded through the use of technology and lead to the emergence of a new human-technological life form, culminating in software capable of thought, feeling, and human response. In this age of the plurality of truths, contemporary science fiction, as an example of Baudrillard's third order simulacra, is no less real than "reality" and therefore represents a convenient platform for exploring potential societal developments, including the future of gender. Despite the fact that transhumanist elements can be traced back to the very beginning of science fiction and that transhumanism could potentially help the genre overcome its attachment to hegemonic gender discourse and more fully assert its role as a harbinger of the future, even the most recent science fiction works rarely attempt to create and explore a truly postgender world. The reasons for that are most likely the strong phallogocentric legacy of the genre, and the deeply rooted and generally accepted gender division that science fiction traditionally employs as a link between the worlds of the future and our own world.
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