Exploring the Interplay Between Transgenderism and Transhumanism: A Question to U.S. Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy
A few days before Christmas, Jason Bermas, an activist, content creator, and documentary filmmaker, took the stage at a town hall in Iowa focused on Biotech, Xenotransplantation, and Transhumanism. His question to U.S. presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy delved into the potential connection between Transgenderism and Transhumanism.
Bermas, who has extensively investigated the transhumanist issue, highlighted Pharma giant United Therapeutics' FDA approval on xenotransplantation, linking it to Martine Rothblatt, a prominent figure in both the “transgender” (what was previously known as transsexualism) and transhumanist spheres. Rothblatt's influence, as the head of United Therapeutics, added a layer to the question posed to Ramaswamy.
In response to Bermas's inquiry, Ramaswamy, known for his background in the pharmaceutical industry, initially provided a detailed overview of his experience. However, his response seemed to evade the core question about the potential connection between transgenderism and transhumanism. It did not include Rothblatt at all.
Rothblatt has written "Unzipped Genes/Taking Charge of Baby Making In The New Millennium, inspired by his work on the human genome and addressing the future of technological reproduction. Rothblatt also wrote Virtually Human/The Promise And The Peril of Digital Immortality and From Transgender To Transhuman (pdf), with titles that speak for themselves.
It felt like Ramaswamy was buying time when responding to Bermas. The gender issue, often considered politically toxic, is backed by significant financial, governmental, legal, and corporate support. Mainstream media tends to steer clear of examining the industry's funding sources, mainly from the financial, Pharma, and tech sectors, which aim to normalize synthetic sex identities in Western societies - identities configured out of tech and pharma manipulations - and presented as needing special rights, via the LGBT NGO apparatus.
Ramaswamy owns a company with gay tech billionaire Peter Thiel, who financially supports the gender industry. Thiel, like Rothblatt, is a transhumanist. He founded PayPal and is an early investor in Zuckerberg's Facebook. Zuckerberg is also a transhumanist. Once a supporter of Trump, Thiel has decided he won't fund any candidates in the 2024 races. Purportedly, Thiel is not happy with the Republican Party's emphasis on "culture-war issues," including attempts to restrict which public restrooms people with synthetic sex identities can use. One must wonder what Thiel thought of his business partner's reference to "transgenderism" as a mental illness. Perhaps they have agreed to disagree.
Had Bermas mentioned that Rothblatt, also a lawyer, was the author of the first gender bill, where would that have left Ramaswamy's evasions, I wonder.
How does a man like Ramaswamy, deeply invested in biotech, Pharma, and technology, miss Rothblatt's connections to the gender industry, and how Rothblatt sees "transgender," or synthetic sex identities, as the onramp to transhumanism?
From Transgender To Transhuman, originally written by Rothblatt in 1996, was initially titled The Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender. It compared the boundary between males and females to South African apartheid and the separation of people by their skin color. In the book, Rothblatt shared his ideas, which are now playing out in many Western cultures, that dividing the sexes is destructive, and only by changing our perspective can we achieve a new unity. The Museum of Tolerance Historian Harold Brackman, in his forward for the book, stated that The Apartheid of Sex, which he likened to a visionary manifesto, would be viewed by readers, then and in years to come, as making the case for the "transgender movement." In Unzipped Genes, written in 1997, Rothblatt argues that "there are times when technology changes so radically when it takes such a quantum leap, that we must change some of the basic mores of society to keep up." Rothblatt believes that society must adopt new social rules regarding what one can or cannot do regarding the seeds of sex. "He claimed that “it is time for a new bioethics of birth" and that "people are not their genome, but independent souls with equivalent rights to respect and dignity regardless of chromosomal configurations."
In the biotech industry, as well as the fields of technology, AI, the medical sector, genetic manipulations, and xenotransplantation, Rothblatt is a giant. One of Rothblatt's mentors, William Sims Bainbridge, was elected director of sociology at the nation's preeminent science funding organization, the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF), and later became the head of the NSF's human cyborg program. The NSF group exerts significant power over the nation's scientific enterprise. It funds approximately 25% of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities. Rothblatt, who cofounded SiriusXM Satellite Radio, also sits on the board of trustees of the Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic has more No. 1 rankings than any other hospital in the U.S.
In June 2022, CEO Magazine wrote that despite Rothblatt's vast accomplishments, including his pioneering thought leadership surrounding space colonization, perhaps his most significant achievement has been his transcendent work in the field of gender identity.
Can you be invested in the fields of technology, biotech, and Pharma, not know who Rothblatt is, and be oblivious to the fact that he has written a virtual blueprint for the modern social, legal, and medical deconstruction of human reproductive sex, or the fact that he is running around with synthetic simulacrums of women's biology? Does Ramaswamy think Rothblatt is mentally ill? How about Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health of the country for which he is running for president? Does Ramaswamy think he too is mentally ill?
In an environment where children are being sterilized and groomed by governments, institutions, activist organization, their schools and entertainment, to think of themselves as a consumerist orgy of parts in the gender industry: breasts, penises, cervix havers, menstruators, holes, chromosomes, sperm, eggs, wombs, etc., shouldn't we expect a better answer from a U.S. presidential contender about the connections between the synthetic sex industry, the future of technological reproduction, and transhumanist augmentations? Sterilized children seem to be fodder for the advancement of the technological reproduction market, already worth $27.7 billion and poised to exceed $38 billion by 2030. Children are being groomed everywhere to believe their wholly sexed reality is just parts for purchase and manipulation. The gender industry is erasing women as a whole and distinct category of humans from men.
Rothblatt is invested in technological reproduction and the violation of the boundary between the human sexes. Babies grown in Petri dishes, with a constellation of genes from various people and animals, are one of Rothblatt's dreams on our path to digital immortality. Though Ramaswamy is quick to state that he believes "transgenderism" is a mental illness, he doesn't address why the corporate state, Hollywood, school curriculums, and social media are grooming children to dissociate from their bodies or why it is framed as progressive by our institutions, sports organizations, legal firms, corporations, and universities.
Why are entire societies being overhauled for people who reject their sexed reality?
How is it that someone running for the highest office in the country, one who revels, as he says, in open discussion forums, doesn't have any answers to these questions when asked directly in a town hall meeting? If he doesn't know it is happening, why doesn't he?
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The past few years has seen the tactic of calling a topic or debate one doesn't like a "culture war issue" and then dismissing it. The right to privacy in a bathroom vis-a-vis the opposite sex is not a culture war. Keeping separate sports for the 2 sexes is not a culture war. Thiel is just another misogynist to add to the list.
Thank you Jennifer for stating things so succinctly. As you lay it out the path and methods to transhunanism become crystal clear. This should strike fear and rebellion in every HUMAN.