Chronicle of a successful transition

Chronicle of a successful transition

Jacques-Robert

Professor Emeritus of Cancerology, University of Bordeaux
At this conference, I would like to talk about a fully successful personal transition. For about 50 years, I knew that I was not in the right body...

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Chronicle of a successful transition

The organizers of the Colloquium held at the Jean-Jaurès University (Toulouse), mentioned in a neighboring post, sent us the summary submitted by Professor Jacques Robert and which we are happy to publish. We have attached as an appendix the letter that the organizers of the colloquium subsequently received.

At this conference, I would like to talk about a fully successful personal transition. For about 50 years, I knew that I was not in the right body: I ​​was aware, deep down, that I was 25 years old, but no one noticed. I watched the years go by without knowing how to transition to a younger age, corresponding to what I really was. I suffered every day these microaggressions that people who appear older suffer, and I silently endured the fact that 20 or 25 year olds, sometimes even young girls, got up to give me their seat on the subway, when, in my head, I was their age.

And then I took my courage in both hands, underwent hormone treatment, gene therapy, and scheduled essential surgery. I was able to return as a postdoc to the laboratory that I had long managed, and I work under the firm but fair direction of the team leader who had prepared his thesis under my supervision before my transition. I am happy to be able to work at the bench that I had had to abandon a long time ago, but I have to be very careful not to break any test tubes: my hands still shake a little, and some intolerant doctoral students claim that I sugar strawberries, thus demonstrating their gerontophobia, which is nothing other than anti-old racism.

My children and grandchildren have a hard time understanding what I have become, but it is my life that has changed: it is not theirs. And if the transition brings me happiness and balance, no one can find fault with that. In fact, I have given my children, who are starting to get older, all my ties and suits and now only wear T-shirts and blue jeans. I have rediscovered my youthful ardor, which my wife appreciates, but finding a grandmother in the marital bed makes things somewhat problematic when you are 25.

The medical treatment I received consisted of rejuvenating hormones, extracted from the soma, this mysterious plant which constituted the ambrosia that the gods of Antiquity had to regularly consume to remain young and even immortal1 and which has recently been identified2. Maintenance treatment using a cocktail of metformin, NAD, rapamycin, fisetin and various senolytics3 and allows me to maintain this youthful appearance which corresponds to my true self.

The gene therapy I underwent consisted of orthotopic implantation of stem cells from all tissues, in which the gene coding for telomerase was modified by the CRISPR-Cas9 technique. Elizabeth Parrish validated this juventology technique on herself. The molecular biologist supervising my transition is hesitant to implement the same gene therapy with the gene coding for the Klotho protein and a few other genes, fearing that my rejuvenation would take me twenty years back in time, to the age of five: for that he would need the agreement of my children who already have enough to do with their kids. We shouldn't throw out grandpa with the bathwater! However, I feel that falling back into childhood would do me the world of good.

Finally, on the surgical level, the techniques are up to date and well mastered. A former minister, Dr. Olivier Véran, will take charge of this part of my transition and has already ordered the necessary number of kilograms of botox to permanently remove my wrinkles.

I can only recommend the treatments I received to anyone who, like me, wishes to transition to their real age and I attach a very recent photo showing the prowess of rejuvenative gene therapy.

Annex

Letter received by the organizers of the conference

Sir,

We inform you that our father, Prof. Robert, asked his granddaughter to introduce him to Tik-Tok; she replied that at twenty-five, he was too old for that. It seems that as a result he finally decided to receive the second experimental gene therapy, according to the attached photo. We formally oppose any additional gene therapy. If he still wants to participate in the conference, he will have to go on horseback.

Sincerely

Author

Footnotes

  1. Dumézil G. The Feast of Immortality. A Study of Comparative Indo-European Mythology. Paul Geuthner Orientalist Bookstore, 1924

  2. Wasson RG. Soma, divine mushroom of immortality. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.

  3. Robert J. The Myth of Longevity. From Dream to Unreality. Bull Cancer 2024, in press.

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