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Hypothetical – what if there was a pill to fix gender identy
Hi girls
A recent thread concerning swinging between male mode and girl mode got me thinking (always a dangerous thing). I think many of us have experienced this frustration along the road and we often wish it was way more simple. So I thought of a hypothetical situation just out of curiosity and I would be interested to see the opinions of other girls.
Suppose the medical world came forward and claimed that they had cracked the gender identification problem. They state that if you take a pill once a day for the rest of your life you will never feel the urge to dress or be feminine again…would you do it?
This probably raises more questions than it would answer both ethical and moral but an interesting scenario none the less.
For me personally it would be a big fat NO! I would resent the inference that gender confusion is some kind of mental health issue. I am also highly suspicious of the medical professions insistence on the ‘pill to cure everything’ mentality.
I believe I am who I am and the challenges I face help to shape that.
So what’s your opinion?
Hugs
Chrissy
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Hi Chrissy,
Interesting thread you have here. Not wrong the road being hard and frusting at times BUT if the pill was available my mind was made up straight away when I read this and no I wouldn’t take it.
Since I have accepted who and what I am only in the last few months I have been a hell of a lot more happier with things and life has been a lot better the last few months.
Yes the challenges lay ahead and one must face them head on. Interesting to hear options on this hypothetical.
Cheers,
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Quote:Suppose the medical world came forward and claimed that they had cracked the gender identification problem. They state that if you take a pill once a day for the rest of your life you will never feel the urge to dress or be feminine again…would you do it?
Nope. Wrong hypothetical pill.
I’d much rather have a few other hypothetical pills…
A pill that eliminates all body and facial hair but reverses male pattern balding completely, giving a completely feminine hairline, full strong feminine hair growth, long lashes and neat, tidy brows.
A pill that adjusts skin oiliness to “normal”, eliminates all skin flaws and ensures nails grow perfectly and rapidly.
A diet pill that really works, by adjusting the body’s desire for and ability to extract from food so that you always stay in the ideal body fat range.
Finally, a pill that would allow the user to metamorphose between male and female at will.
On second thoughts, I’d like all of them to be one-off inoculations.
Alice
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mmmm well yes a very interesting post.
I have never wanted to be anything other than a girl, but been stuck in a guys body for so many years and not knowing I could transition and how good it has been, I guess for me it would have been when was the pill invented.
10 years ago, I would have taken the pill as it was then I was trying to live the life of a normal guy, trying to hide my feelings and putting everything in cupboard.
Now I have transitioned …… NEVER I just love my change soo much and wished I had taken the leap sooner, knowing what I know now years ago.
But it did really make me think, as all I ever wanted was to be normal and not having the feelings of not fitting in. So if it had existed before I found out I could change then I guess I would never have become a girl and taken the easy way out.
I did it the other way, feeling like I was in the movie the matrix … if you take the pink pill …. as I took my first hormone table.
xxx
Kelly Jones
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Hah!! Great question Chrissy, and one that will have a few thinking very hard and question their existence and the meaning of their lives. Before I start I must say I am not a Pshrink or anything, these are just MY thoughts.
There are a lot of out there us who are troubled by our feelings and I for one feel that a pill like this, while may be the answer for some, would just create dramas for others. I am one of those who is very happy leading a double life (well most of the time!) although I would love to spend more time as a girl. I would never take a pill like this as I feel that we are only here for a short time and we should live our lives as WE want to, not how others think we think we should. I have spoken to a few gurls who say they would not do this if they had the choice and that is their choice. Each to their own. There is enough judging of people out there and we as an eclectic group should be sticking together and not judging each other for our choices in life. (I had to look eclectic up so here is the definition!)
(1. varied: made up of parts from various sources)
2. choosing from various sources: choosing what is best or preferred from a variety of sources or styles)
For me not a chance! Live life as YOU want to. I just love being who I am although I would like the chance to get out more but hey that is my decision.
Sorry if this is too D&M for what you intended!!
I want one of Alices pill tho !!!!!!! -
Thanks for your thoughts Lori. There is no right or wrong answers, thats the beauty of hypothetical scenarios. Just a chance to see other opinions and challenge our own ideas. Not many replies yet but interestingly no affirmatives yet.
Hugs
Chrissy
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I like hypotheticals, as you say it is good to think, dangerous as it may be! I don’t believe I would take the pill and would look for the other ones that rearrange our physical sides, make me shorter, slimmer, have more hair etc.
But, I do have a friend who would take the pill, she and I have been friends for a long time, in fact she is probably the longest lasting friendship I have had in Australia,or anywhere for that matter! She is also very feminine in femme mode! I add this to illustrate the degree of surprise I felt when we had the same conversation and she said she would take it. She believed the problems she went through over the years to be such that she would rather not be a cross dresser.
I think those who are saying ‘no’ maybe missing the point of the hypothetical. Would your life be so much simpler, not that not being a cross dresser means that ‘life would be easy’. But be honest, at least admit life have had less strain or stress if you weren’t a cross dresser?
HelenQuote:There is no right or wrong answers, thats the beauty of hypothetical scenarios. Just a chance to see other opinions and challenge our own ideas. Not many replies yet but interestingly no affirmatives yet.
Hugs
Chrissy -
Quote:I think those who are saying ‘no’ maybe missing the point of the hypothetical. Would your life be so much simpler, not that not being a cross dresser means that ‘life would be easy’. But be honest, at least admit life have had less strain or stress if you weren’t a cross dresser?
Of course life would be simpler, but I’d never get to experience the euphoric highs that I get from going out dressed. It’s more fun than I’ve ever experienced as a male. It’d be a bit like a drug for bipolar disorder that prevents the euphoric highs but still allows the suicidal lows.
alice
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I like who I am, who ever it may be. It’s taken some time to get to this point so it’d be a bit of a waste to change now! So no, not for me.
A pill that would change the broader cummunity’s view on the other hand…
cheers
S -
I would never consider taking a pill that prevented me from being who I am and enjoying myself more than ever before in my life.
xxxx Felicity
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a hypothetical pill?
that would fix my gender identity?
So what pill that would make me a woman, sounds good to me. But in reality why do we need to be fixed, where not broken we just think differently.
Somehow I think in this modern world is always a quick fix or a product to make us better. I am happy to be me, I wish a little more feminine but you can’t have everything. And knowing my luck there was a pill the side-effects would be something like longer leg hair.Penny
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Just found this thread and thought it might bear revisiting.
A pill to take away the urge to be a woman, no thanks I have spent my life working out who I am and coming to terms with it.
I like myself just the way I am and I intend to stay this way.
Taking away half of myself with a pill would be like taking a couple of Valium’s and sitting in front of the TV like a Zombie.
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Quote:I like myself just the way I am and I intend to stay this way.
Absolutely, you can count me in the ‘no’ column as well.
I can’t begin to imagine my life as somebody else, this is who I am.
My life is fun, exciting, interesting, fulfilling & since identifying myself as Tg, I have met so many interesting & kind people. Of course I’ve met some great Tg people but I’m actually thinking of all the lovely cis-gendered people I’ve become friends with because I’m Tg. I was not much of a fan of people up until a year ago but the level of acceptance I’ve had from people has shown me how wrong I was.
Not on your life would I take the pill. -
For me, being pre-op, I don’t ‘dress up’ so that aspect of ChrissyO’s hypothetical is not applicable.
But the other half of the hypothetical is. Being feminine.
That part puts me firmly in the No camp for taking such a pill.Jenifur Charne
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I would not take such a pill, as although I don’t wish to transition to be a complete woman, I really enjoy my fleeting times when I can be my feminine alter ego Lyndal. The thrill of being out dressed enfemme, and the relaxation of being at home dressed as a woman, and thinking like a woman is something I would not wish to have taken away from me. I enjoy being myself and Lyndal is part of that self.
A great hypothetical and a great thought provoker.
Hugs Lyndal -
Not for me thank you very much, I like being Connie. Why take a pill that would turn us into men?
The only pills I take are Cenovis Womens Multi. Every morning.
Hugs,
Connie.
