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So I had this thought the other day, and I really hope this question doesn't come off as transphobic because thats not my intention.
If scientists were to somehow create a simple "cure" for gender dysphoria, would you want it?
If there was a pill you could take that would suddenly make you comfortable as your birth gender, would you take it? Or would you still want to go through the process of transitioning? In either case, what is the reasoning behind your decision?
Again, I'm really hoping this question doesn't rub anyone the wrong way. I can definitely see some arguments why one would not take the pill, but I wanted to see how actual trans people felt about it.
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Oh, look, it's this thread again.
In the end, this comes down as a philosophical question. Sure, you would feel good, but if you've been driven by a desire your entire life to be the opposite gender, that has greatly shaped you as a person, essentially made you who you are today.
If my lifelong desires were completely reverted, I would not be myself anymore, so taking the pill would more or less kill my current self.
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>>8111469
"Kill my current self" seems a bit strong, but yeah it would basically change who you are as a person.
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>>8111449
Drink this mushroom tea, follow me deep into the woods and I'll tell you the story of a boy from Anatolia. And when we're done, you'll get it--you'll just get it.
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>>8111449
HSTS would take the pill.
A*P wouldn't take it.
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>>8111482
It would though. All your future holds and dreams and plans would have to be reverted to your birthgender. You would have to find meaning in life under a completely separate context. Doors will open and some will close. And since this pill just makes you cis I might now make you gay because your sexuality wasn't affected. What about those ramifications? Is that more acceptable ethically than allowing me to transition in the first place without bombing my concious to hell and back?
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>>8111449
>I had this thought
>I
Right. It's not like this "original thought" gets posted here every day. Good thread OP!
So now that I'm done complaining
I wouldn't take the pill because
1) I would rather die than be male and the only way to be female is to take HRT rather than this magic pill
2) If this pill could make me accept something that feels extremely wrong to me then it would change me so much that I would be a different person. So it would basically be like suicide and a new person would be born. So what is the point of taking the pill? I would not exist anymore after taking it. Might as well just kill myself.
If you have anymore questions go ahead, OP
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>>8111449
I would take voluntary euthanasia if it was available.
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>>8111449
I don't know if this is controversial or not, but if I hadn't transitioned yet, I would have taken it for sure. I'm sure I could have been a handsome guy if it didn't make me depressed, after all. And maybe I'd have been happy as well. Taking anti anxiety medication at some point in my life also made me grow kind of used to changing as a person, so I'm not afraid of that either; I just want to be happy.
But I'm fairly successful at transitioning, and don't have much gender dysphoria anymore now, so I don't see the point in taking a pill like that anymore now.
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>>8111469
>Oh, look, it's this thread again.
>In the end, this comes down as a philosophical question. Sure, you would feel good, but if you've been driven by a desire your entire life to be the opposite gender, that has greatly shaped you as a person, essentially made you who you are today.
>If my lifelong desires were completely reverted, I would not be myself anymore, so taking the pill would more or less kill my current self.
Oh look, emotional non-factual assumptions again.
Studies have shown that people who are cured from personality disorders feel a sense of relief and fulfilment as long as they saw their disorder as a problem, the issue we have now is that with the rise of feminists trying to normalize being LGBT, and the people with the disorders are never even allowed to acknowledge it as a problem.
"It's the worlds problem for not accepting me for who I am, absolutely nothing wrong with me"
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>>8111994
Well I kind of agree and disagree with this
If you're trying to suggest being lgbt in any way is a mental disorder, then you're just retarded, but for someone to argue gender dysphoria isn't a mental disorder is also retarded.
The thing is that at the moment, transitioning is the only real treatment for gender dysphoria.
I purposefully posed this question in the context that the process of transitioning is exactly the same in this scenario. In the same scenario but there was also a pill that could instantly change your biological gender to fit your mental gender, I image almost every person would choose to transition over taking the mind altering pill.
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>>8111692
>I only like men
Meta-attraction. AGP.
>I don't have much interest in sex
Ace trannies are AGP.
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>>8111449
I'm actually waiting for this pill to come out. Hopefully it gets made before I kill myself because I really don't want to transition in my 20's and I have no clue how long I can live like this.
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>>8111449
Dysphoria wasn't the main reason I transitioned so I don't think I would've taken it unless it is purely hypothetical with 0 side effects then yes 10 years ago.
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