Quote Originally Posted by Sigrid
They've cloned one sheep, Dolly, who was put to sleep at the age of six, half the normal life span of sheep. Cloning a human being and expecting it to live a full life won't happen for decades if only for the moral and legal issues which first must be debated and resolved.
Cloning a human is no different from cloning a sheep. Also, its not illegal everywhere, and since its something many scientists want to do, its bound to happen, if it hasn't happened already.

Again, decades. I've had some exposure in the medical industry and have witnessed just how long it takes to get breakthrough tools and drugs though the testing and approvals process. Years alone for even what seem to be the most innocuous and beneficial products. And that doesn't begin to address the years, even decades of research which preceed them.
I was not reffering to this technology here, but to the actual transformation process.

In the late 1950's the medical community began seriously predicting that a cure for cancer was within reach. Fifty years later they may actually be seeing some real progress. And yet, still are cautiously estimating many, many years before a cure becomes a reality.
The technology I have been talking about could possibly cure cancer too, as a matter of fact.

Of all the sci-fi I've read in my life, I've only seen two examples of where sci-fi predictions actually have become a reality;
1. France’s George Melies’ 1902 film "Trip to the Moon". We got there sixty seven years later.
2. Communicators ala Star Trek. I had a cell phone in my hand just twenty five years later.
Computers, submarines, airplanes, even electricity, those are all things many people never thought possible. Its not because people are skeptical that its not possible.

Technology has grown by leaps and bounds in my lifetime and appears breakthroughs may be beginning to grow exponentially. Based on the rate of progress in the last century - no way will this happen in your lifetime. Based on the rate of progress in the last five to ten years - who knows?
Assuming I eat well, keep doing some exercise and live carefully in general, I might very well live 60 more years, and possibly even more. And since cloning, along with genetic engineering, are already possible, combined with the imminent need for such a technology (mainly to cure AIDS and cancer), it might very well happen early enough.

But, my likely decision would be to pass, much for the same reason I've never given serious thought to the notion of undergoing SRS. You simply haven't explained how they would re-engineer the soul. In the soul is where the real woman resides.
I assume you mean "the mind", here. If you are a transexual, then you don't need anybody to "re-engineer" your mind.