i know that the trans community around here overwhelmingly leans transfem, and that’s chill, but these hypotheticals always entertain me, as a transmasc
like, does this button do nothing to me? does it undo my surgeries and hormones? does it give me gender dysphoria about my surgeries and hormones? it’s funny to wonder about
however, i would not press the button to find out :)
It also specifically says “girl” and not “AFAB,” so it might just change a trans woman into a trans girl with most of the same problems. I guess it might be helpful for someone who lives in a place that has recently become better about trans healthcare, since they’d effectively start earlier.
Trans boys would benefit the most. No change in age and your dysphoria disappears. Even better for those who haven’t come out, because that would be an extra awkward conversation to have the second time (except now instead of trying to stop you, they’re trying to give you a podcast).
i think positing a dramatic change to one’s mind such that their gender is changed to being cis with their AGAB as positive is uh… perhaps, lacking in trans perspectives. for many of us, that’s a full on horror situation, something like, if conversion therapy existed, but it worked
of course, there have been trans people who would opt in to this sort of change, and this statement is not meant to invalidate them
but i still think it’s worth pointing out, since, at least to me, it comes across as a little insensitive (due to the implication that being trans is a universal negative, that being cis is always preferable to, even in the instance where it would change a fundamental characteristic of a person, such as their gender)
that reason is the reason why my parent comment ends with “i would not push the button to find out” lmfao
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(as an aside, i don’t think the hypothetical is about age, at all)
i know that the trans community around here overwhelmingly leans transfem, and that’s chill, but these hypotheticals always entertain me, as a transmasc
like, does this button do nothing to me? does it undo my surgeries and hormones? does it give me gender dysphoria about my surgeries and hormones? it’s funny to wonder about
however, i would not press the button to find out :)
Plus, it’s only implied but it seems that not pressing the button has a nonzero chance of a million. I’d like a million
It also specifically says “girl” and not “AFAB,” so it might just change a trans woman into a trans girl with most of the same problems. I guess it might be helpful for someone who lives in a place that has recently become better about trans healthcare, since they’d effectively start earlier.
Trans boys would benefit the most. No change in age and your dysphoria disappears. Even better for those who haven’t come out, because that would be an extra awkward conversation to have the second time (except now instead of trying to stop you, they’re trying to give you a podcast).
i think positing a dramatic change to one’s mind such that their gender is changed to being cis with their AGAB as positive is uh… perhaps, lacking in trans perspectives. for many of us, that’s a full on horror situation, something like, if conversion therapy existed, but it worked
of course, there have been trans people who would opt in to this sort of change, and this statement is not meant to invalidate them
but i still think it’s worth pointing out, since, at least to me, it comes across as a little insensitive (due to the implication that being trans is a universal negative, that being cis is always preferable to, even in the instance where it would change a fundamental characteristic of a person, such as their gender)
that reason is the reason why my parent comment ends with “i would not push the button to find out” lmfao
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(as an aside, i don’t think the hypothetical is about age, at all)
Yeah, my main issue with conversion therapy is that it doesn’t work, I would LOVE if it did…