Poll: Would you change your sex if you could?

[PhantomEcho]

Personally, I'm just waiting for the day that I can change personas on a whim.

I'm so detached from my own identity, that I could easily just swap out my body with some other more interesting body and make up a character as I went.

It's a bit strange to think like that... but I've never known any other way. I've always felt like I've just been making up personalities and playing roles ever since I was a kid. I think it'd be interesting if I could just pick a body to suit my character on a day-by-day basis.

Who knows, perhaps it'd save me from having a complete mental breakdown and finally developing a multiple-personality disorder.

 

[deathninja]

Something I've wondered about a lot, and sometimes still do.

Though I'm 27 years old and engaged now, so it's too late to do anything anyways.

 

[bizentine]

Follow your happiness. Life is to short too live in a body you don't like.
Fuck the haters.

 

[bizentine]

*swoops into the thread, wearing a cape* Hello there! It's that time again; it's Snowbell the Gender Nazi!

No, this does not mean that I wish to commit gendercide on the less beautiful half of the human race - I simply noticed that you're mixing up gender and sex!

Sex is biological, gender is a social construct~

So I answered 'I would like to permanently change my gender' because I'd rather be treated like a guy and not like a girl (ie. not being sexually objectified, not having kitchen jokes made at me etc) but I have no desire to change my sex and gain a penis, no-sir-ee

Gender Nazi awaaaaaaay!

This is seriously the worst superpower ever :|

ALSO: you are my new favorite.

 

[ace_of_something]

Only to see how people would react to a woman who is my height.

 

[Navvan]

Yes I certainly would. The permanency of the change would be dependent on whether or not reality changed with it and whether I retain my identity and at least reasonably similar brain chemistry. That is to say I wouldn't want to suddenly become a very different person.

If reality didn't change at all I wouldn't really want it to be permanent (at least automatically so) as I would like to see the responses of those close to me to the change and have their input before making a permanent change. More importantly I am not so keen on the whole media sensation, all the difficulity with changing legal documentation, and so forth that would come with being suddenly magically changed. If those could be magically nullified as well I would do it.

If reality changes but my personality/educational history drastically changes I wouldn't want the change to be permanent. I like who I am on that level and where I am on my career path.

If reality changes but I keep my current personality/educational history (something similar or better from my current perspective) then I would say make it permanent.

In the real world though the only viable option for changing your sex is through surgery and hormone therapy and the results are far from ideal. Thus I personally will never consider it an option.

 

[Zoe Castillo]

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[BENZOOKA]

No. I'm perfectly happy and confident with my gender and sexuality.

I would take a day or two being a girl, to masturbate, enjoy and try firsthand what works best. As well as try to better figure out how they think, because that's a lifetime of studying.

 

[Snowbell]

ALSO: you are my new favorite.

Gender Nazi needs no thanks! Educating the people is thanks enough! *attempts to swing from rooftop to rooftop, slams into a wall*

 

[lacktheknack]

It's in my genes that, if I was a woman, I'd suffer some pretty jaw-dropping PMS.

I'll pass.

 

[Griffolion]

Depends if I'm hot

If it was a magical and instant change, maybe for a day or so. Y'know, to see "how the other half live".

If however we're talking about real life surgery and hormone replacement therapy, then my answer is a resounding 'no'.

I'm the exact same. Nothing too... permanent and I'd be game, so long as it's temporary.

Captcha: "she loves him" - Seriously, we need to shut this thing down, it gains sentience by the day...

 

[bluepotatosack]

*snip*

Ohhhh, I mentally erased the word "different". I should really make sure to have some coffee before posting.

 

[Steppin Razor]

I would change, most likely for a day at first just to see what it's like. As for something more permanent, I dunno. I am currently very unsure of my own perception of myself and my sexuality and am making a few attempts at sorting my true nature from what has been beaten into me over 22 years of exposure to alpha male culture. Some days I am content with who I am, others I feel like I'd be happier if I was different. It's rather confusing at times and I'm not sure I'll ever work it all out.

 

[Lieju]

For a while just to see what it's like.

Despite what idealistic "libertarians" think, men and women are different. There are differences in their needs and wants, in the way they react to things, in their goals in life. It would be interesting to experience the other side of the coin for a bit.

You probably meant 'liberals', BTW.

Your sex certainly affects you, the hormonal activity and all, but both men and women are still individuals. You can't really clearly divide humans into two groups that are totally different based on their sex.

Me, I'm a woman as far as people are concerned (although I'm not really feminine, and people have confused me with a guy before), but to be honest, I don't particularly feel like either a man or a woman. It doesn't much matter to me. I guess I'd prefer to be neither. That's kinda closest to my gender-identity.

Sexually I'm attracted to women, so being a man would be easier, I guess?
But I wouldn't want to just change my sex to conform, and there definitely are advantages to being a woman, also even if I don't feel like a woman, my hormonal activity would be different from what it is now, so I wouldn't be what I am now.

I guess I'd like to try it out?

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

If it was instant and reversible, I'd be using whichever gender suited me better for the situation at hand.

 

[Rule Britannia]

(I'm male)
Maybe a day or two, certainly not a permanent change. I couldn't handle that.

 

[BeeGeenie]

Could be interesting to try for a few days, in the name of curiosity.

As far as sex reassignment surgery and gene therapy etc. Ah heck no. You might "feel" like a woman, but your body obviously disagrees with you, and mutilating it just to have the outward appearance of a woman has always seemed a bit drastic to me.
Why not just behave the way you feel and let your body be what it is.
Maybe even effect some social change by questioning existing gender roles.
I may be wrong, but I can't help but feel that trans-gender people have more of a problem with social conventions and gender roles than with their own plumbing.

You can change your body, you can change your self-image, or you can just learn to love yourself, including your body, just the way you are.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

I just want to have all the physical advantages of being male. I don't mind my girly parts. Just give me a few extra inches of height, added strength, a lower voice, a lesser tendency to hoard body fat, etc...

Re: transgender folk, I'm guessing that there are both types. Some people probably just feel that the only way to escape their societal role is to become the opposite sex, which has the freedoms they want. (I'm guessing this is more common in female-to-male.) I'm guessing some just have a massive hatred of having the parts they have, which is questionable as to whether that should be treated as a mental disorder or what, given how much distress it causes the person. (The jury is still out for me on whether you should treat the brain or the body in this case.)

 

[FalloutJack]

No, I think that would be bad.

 

[pppppppppppppppppp]

Could be interesting to try for a few days, in the name of curiosity.

As far as sex reassignment surgery and gene therapy etc. Ah heck no. You might "feel" like a woman, but your body obviously disagrees with you, and mutilating it just to have the outward appearance of a woman has always seemed a bit drastic to me.
Why not just behave the way you feel and let your body be what it is.
Maybe even effect some social change by questioning existing gender roles.
I may be wrong, but I can't help but feel that trans-gender people have more of a problem with social conventions and gender roles than with their own plumbing.

You can change your body, you can change your self-image, or you can just learn to love yourself, including your body, just the way you are.

I see your point, but for me at least, it's a little of both. I want to be female in regard to my own self image, but I also want to be "normal" in society's eyes (however conformist that may sound); and it may be because I live in such a conservative place, but it seems conventional gender roles are pretty set in stone.

So, for example, I hate that I can't wear pretty clothes or makeup, cry at movies, or show a preference towards girly things without being thought of as "weird", but I also hate that I have a penis, broad shoulders, a low voice, masculine features, and short, mannish hair. It's a little bit of both.