No, they can't. You still need to biologically be a woman for a child to be produced. And, that's on top of the fact that the impregnated women needs to abstain from medication, alcohol, and drugs to prevent the birth defects; topping it all off with become impregnated preferably before menopause occurs in order to reduce the likelihood of autism. With all that still leading to a pure guess of if the child will be born without any issues (Such as hereditary diseases, or complications during development).

That's not to say that science hasn't made it's progress. Cloning, artificial wombs, and altering cartilage are shown to be possible, but things STILL have a long ways to go with an infinite amount of questions remaining unanswered. First question of which, that people always ignore, is what are the downsides? Going back to the artificial wombs as an easy example, lot of people were joking around that sexbots and artificial wombs would make modern women obsolete. However, things cannot up and start like that. There's a reason why women, not men, are designed to incubate offspring. And, why it is that humans can only breed with other humans. Given the fact that humans are much more complex than lambs or rats, there's an extremely likely chance that something will go wrong. First, there's the issue of making sure that the fetus receives the correct nutrients and grows in a stable and proper environment. That's going to take who knows how many years (Possibly decades) to work through once they manage to get past all the red tape and ethics laws that exist. Once that's over, there's still the fact that the fetus, after it's born, may still suffer from other problems. Could an artificial womb cause a psychological change in the development of the fetus? Could it alter the growth of the child once they are "born"? We don't know. Science has progressed nowhere near that far.

And, that's just in regards to getting things off the ground. Imagine all the future problems that may occur AFTER they eventually sort out all the biological and mental issues. This is a perfect place to bring up "gene splicing".

Assume that, in the future, you actually CAN become a biological woman, man, or in-between (As opposed to today's practice of scrambling your genitals, chugging hormones, and declaring you're of the opposite sex when you can't even pass for a decent transvestite). That's going to cause THREE major problems that people can see coming from a mile away. First one is how is society going to react to the sexual freedoms that are possible? History has shown, in places as far back as Ancient Greece to as recent as the USSR and the transition from the Weimar Republic to Nazi Germany, that the lack of inhibitions towards sexual activity is going to result in one of two occurrences: (1) there is going to be a puritan revolution eradicating all traces of the "sexual immortality", or (2) the society will collapse in on itself or become incapable of opposing alien threats. The latter won't (likely) happen due to biologically engineered hermaphrodites being a possibility, so that leaves only the former. And, THAT'S going to be where the big issue comes from. Just how acceptable should people be towards the "sexual freedom" society can experience? While nowhere near close to said future being a possibility, we are currently experiencing a microcosm of such a happening on two occasions. First, with the earlier concept of otherkins (That people laughed out of the room for the insanity it was and almost completely forgotten about), and, second, with the cancer that is the furfag community. And, the only "conclusive" resolution that people can agree on in regards to the issue entirely boils down to, "Stop treating your fetishes as if they were a lifestyle." Whether such a point will still be relevant to a future where sexual activity can be more experimental is entirely up in the air, but that's the closest conclusion people can reach at the moment.

Moving into the second point, you'll have to deal with overpopulation. Since, in this future, "anyone" can be fully capable of producing a child, what's there stopping a sharp jump in the birth rate as a result of the actions brought up in the first point? What's there stopping people from impregnating themselves? If people already think that overpopulation is a problem is Africa, India, and China; imagine how it will effect the rest of the world when anyone can have a child in a sexually active society? Questions like this have lead some people to conclude that sexual transitions between sexes may actually become heavily regulated, and/or almost entirely become restricted to crew members of space exploration missions (Because allowing for a sharp population growth through these methods would be extremely advantageous when colonizing space).

To finish off with the third point, the one people avoid because of it's "offensive" nature: adaptive mutations. There's a reason why the Japanese are specifically designed to eat seaweed, why the European explorers were immune to small pox while it wiped out the American-Indians, and why Denmark is going to perform a shoah on their mink population. If gene-splicing is possible, allowing you to change people's sex, change people's race, even insert animal genes and characteristics, then we've got a big problem. On the sexual level, do you want to have men start suffering from a mutated version of menopause or women suffering from a mutated version of prostate cancer? On the racial level, do you want to give people the Japanese's ability to digest plants more easily at the risk of increasing their chances of contracting Hepatitis B? On a cross-species level, do you want to increase the possibility of animals contracting a mutated form of tuberculosis, or for humans to contract a mutated form of Q fever?

The point I'm trying to make is that gene-splicing is a neat concept, it makes for great science fiction and erotica, but that's just it. It's pure science fiction. Any claims towards it happening are either idiots not understanding just how ignorant we are about the human body and it's limits (Both biologically and mentally), OR just news media stories hoping to grab headlines with bombastic claims.

But, there's nothing else to fuck, except for nature, animals, and blow-up dolls.





And, I have to disagree. Apart from the fact the Japan is extremely Conservative (Even by Western standards), most of the influx by Western audiences is in relation to rejecting the growing trend of political correctness and tokenism that's present in Western comics, cartoons, and media. As far as "legacy" audiences that have been interested and present prior to the current decade, it's split down the middle between SJweebs and goons who can only enjoy the media "ironically" and the traditionalists who want the media to stay the same it has been for decades.

One of the Islamic countries, China, or somewhere else?