If you could take a pill....

[amandam]

I would like to take two pills, one for male, and one for female. Then try each one and decide what I want. I don't like being in the middle.

[TomTuttle]

I wouldn't mind doing that amandam haha. I wish i could do that with a lot of things.

I think an important question to ask is... How much is it trying to fix you? Will it simply eliminate bodily dysphoria and put you at some sort of peace with the idea of being your biological sex, or would it actually make a transman more feminine and a transwoman more masculine. And then how much so? I think if it was the former it seems like an acceptable idea but if it's the latter it sounds very sketchy. Gonna start pumping out some Stepford wives and husbands.

[AbbyKat]

An interesting poll I've always wanted to try! I apologize if it triggers anyone, it was not my intention. I came across this question when I was taking the "Are you a Transgender" test online.

While I would have worded the question a bit differently, I understood what you were going for.

Obviously, I wouldn't take such a pill now, deep into my transition.  But if I could have cured my dysphoria before my transition by taking a pill and not having to worry about it?  Hell yes!

In super simplified terms gender dysphoria is a miscommunication between your body and mind.  We fix our bodies to match our minds because it's the only way we know how.  If we could fix the mind to match by taking a pill?  Again, hell yes.

[Kensi]

what you say the pill does is something I had prayed for from age 9-26... but now, I feel like it would be counter productive. I am in the process of being seen as the person I truly am and not a fake persona. no I wouldn't take the pill. it would just be another lie...

[Raell]

Right.
If I took a pill that made my brain match my bio gender, then more than half my personality would disappear, since I'm 60% male-minded.

Do I really want to be like my cis female friends and relatives, most of whom have NO sense of humor, adventure, or fun, whose ideas of recreation involve endless shopping and buying make up, chasing men, redecorating their homes, who hate sweat, exercise, have rigid points of view, as in "my way the ONLY way," etc.?
Sounds boring to me.

The only "fun" women I know are the ones with a substantial dab of male brain imprinting. With a swagger in their steps and a mischievous gleam in their eyes, they are the ones up for anything, ready to head off on an outdoor adventure that doesn't involve getting stoned or drunk while chasing men.

Eeeew.

[SailorMars1994]

You all are so awesome for taking the time to answer my silly poll! <3 As i had said before, i apologize deeply if it triggered you, as it was not my intention! Stay beautiful! #TransIsBeautiful

Love
Ashley

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Actually I didnt find this triggering at all. It is quite thought provoking and in my view appropriate towards our situation and figureing out who we are and aswell, as where our views and thoughts were before transition and during/after. Still, no wanting of any manhood here <3

[VelvetPurple]

Yes, yes I would.  I cannot express how much I would.  I would love to live a normal life.  I would love for a day to go by where I don't feel like some sort of freak.  Living trans is just exhausting so being comfortable in my male body would be a godsend beyond any reasonable doubt.

[MeTony]

I would if it took away the dysphoria and made me more femenine. And I would feel content. I would be a whole person.

If it just took away the dysphoria I would still walk, talk and behave like a man. I'd be misgendered a lot and be unhappy about it.

No matter what length I have had my hair, people have assumed I am male because of my behavior.

The thing I'm afraid of is that the pill will lose its effect and dysphoria will be back. So....maybe I would not take it.

[TomTuttle]

I would if it took away the dysphoria and made me more femenine. And I would feel content. I would be a whole person.

If it just took away the dysphoria I would still walk, talk and behave like a man. I'd be misgendered a lot and be unhappy about it.

No matter what length I have had my hair, people have assumed I am male because of my behavior.

The thing I'm afraid of is that the pill will lose its effect and dysphoria will be back. So....maybe I would not take it.

Well the thing is, if it makes you more feminine... How much so and what exactly is the pill-makers definition of that? Are they trying to change your whole personality so you seem like a "typical" female, and what is that? If it simply eliminates dysphoria, you would probably have all the problems of a really butch woman, which may piss you off, but you'd know that your personality would be intact once the pill had taken effect.

[MeTony]

Well the thing is, if it makes you more feminine... How much so and what exactly is the pill-makers definition of that? Are they trying to change your whole personality so you seem like a "typical" female, and what is that? If it simply eliminates dysphoria, you would probably have all the problems of a really butch woman, which may piss you off, but you'd know that your personality would be intact once the pill had taken effect.

Hmmm... I would not want to change my personality. But so many times I have wished I could just blend in and be one among the others. But I am myself and would not want to change my personality. Maybe I would have 20 years ago, but not today.

Dysphoria or not. I want to be myself. It is a scary thought that someting would change my personality. Nobody would know me anymore. Not even me. Oh, I forgot. I was not supposed to remember the change. But I would notice on everyone else something wierd is going on.

[PinkThorn682]

No. I don't want someone to take away who I am just to fit into their schema of "normal".

[Nora Kayte]

Would I take a pill that makes my mind match my body? Without hesitation! ABSOLUTELY! Would I take a pill to make my body match my mind? Yes, provided it doesn't hurt anybody. I would take anything to stop the war inside my head. I wish I could just be a normal guy without the mental torment.

This is me

[AnneK]

Not interested.  However if there were a pill that could make me female, then definitely.

[AlyssaJ]

My answer is no because I feel like it would change my core identity making me a different person.  Fact is I am a woman who was born into a body that doesn't match. My personality has been shaped by that female identity even if I denied it most of my life so I wouldn't be willing to inherently change who I am inside just so my identity would match with my outside.  For me, the gooey middle is far more important in defining who I am than the crunchy shell.