ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the practical and political mystery of separation. It explores the tensions between the science of transbiology and a continuing cultural and political attachment to the human. The chapter attempts to make connections between interspecies and intersex in the work of Kath Weston. Weston writes of the incalculability of intersex and posits the numberless zero' as means of theorising forms of sex that defy metric expression. The chapter focuses on the debate in the Westminster parliament and particularly the Joint Committee of the House of Lords and Commons on the Draft Human Tissue and Embryology Bill which sat throughout June 2007. It builds methodologically and analytically on previous analyses of parliamentary discourse on reproductive technology. The chapter also focuses on transpecies embryo through the narrative and historical corridors of UK parliamentary process, and in particular the discussions and witness testimony presented to the Joint Committee.
