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In a message dated 08/16/2000 6:01:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << Access to such technology is most certainly dependent on race and class. >> Au contraire, (in the US, anyway) access is dependent on money. Certainly race and class can affect any given individual's access to money, but one's race and one's class does not--across the board--preclude one's access to surgical sex reassignment. It may be intellectually stimulating for some people to think of us as cyborgs, but for others--particularly those whose access to money (regardless of race and/or class) precludes them from obtaining necessary medical treatments and for whom transsexual status places them at risk on a daily basis of physical and emotional violence and abuse and dehumanization--playing intellectual games like this seems like so much mental masturbation. It is a luxury that few of us can afford, and I believe those who can afford it have an obligation to understand the realities of life for those who can't, and to work for concrete social change to rectify that discrepancy. I hope that if anyone on this list responds positively to the above referenced CFP, their manuscript will speak to real issues that transsexual people face and not just exhibit the mental gymnastics of post-postmodern theory--queer or cyborg or not! James Green %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%