ECSNorway Wrote:And yet nobody has any problems with telekinetic horses, the existence of the Supers faction, or people who change gender when wet.The TK is faked-up with tractor-pressor tricks, the Supers faction in general have no or extremely limited powers from biomods (everything is faked-up using external tech gadgets, or occasionally cybernetics, internal or external), and the gender shifting is done in a number of ways.
As far as I know the gender-shifters conserve mass, or have to acquire or dump mass externally (this is a plot point in a number of stories). If the gender-shifters have a genetic basis, handwavium should certainly be able to fake-up a 'Y' chromosome from an 'X', and supposedly women retain cells from the babies they carry (male babies would be an obvious source of Y). I think some research showed men and women retain cells from their mother (a source of X). You could also do gender-shifting using holographics, and force fields, most easily with the smaller of the two shapes being the base one. Or, the gender shifters might now be non-biological, and be faking-up a human body with a metabolism in a number of ways. This ignores the ones who are now basically living handwavium in a human form.
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