What if you'd had a choice?

[icontact]

In case the cisgender options didn't make sense:

Cisgender: The same body you were born with, matching brain.
----------------For example, for me, a FtM, to be a cisgender girl.

Cisgender: A body that matched your brain.
----------------For example, for me, a FtM, to be a cisgender guy.

[tinkerbell]

My life experiences have made me who I am today.  Yes, it has been a very painful journey, but I don't think I could be here today, doing what I am doing, feeling what I am feeling, having the same outlook I currently have at life in general if I had been born with the correct anatomy; hence I chose "The Same".

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[Nero]

If I'd had a choice at conception, I'dve been XY with my current brain. But knowing what I know now, I dunno. I wouldn't trade me with all that makes me what I am for anything. And I wouldn't have all that if I hadn't been born this way.

[Janet_Girl]

Even with all the junk that has happened in my life, I still wouldn't have really change anything.  They make me, me.  I don't know who I would be if I was born female.

Janet

[sarahb]

I would have to agree with the others on this one. Although life would have been easier as far as gender goes, the experiences that have shaped me and built the person I am today would be different. I am rather fond of having the first-hand experience of life's many differences that make humanity unique. I chose "The Same."

[Nicky]

I said other cause I'm unsure what I would be. I'm not cisgendered and am hazy about what my ideal body would look like. Perhaps I would go for intersexed, a body to match my brain.

[Elwood]

Cisguy, please.

Why?
Women are great, okay. And I don't have a problem with them at all. But I'd want to be a guy because, well, that's the essence of who I am. If I was a cisgirl, I wouldn't be me anymore. I'd be someone else.

[Carol55]

I know that the experiences I've had made me who I am today, but I'm not all that happy with that.  I observed all the experiences I wished I'd had, but they were happening to someone else.  I might be different today if my body had been female at birth.  But since I believe I've been thinking female since I was nine or ten, maybe I wouldn't have been that much different.  I'd have the same interests and beliefs about the world.  Many of those are gender  neutral.  Some are not and I could have revealed and acted on them, instead of keeping secrets.

The whole point of what I'm doing is to make my body match my brain.  Why wouldn't I wish it had been that way all along?

[sneakersjay]

If I had a choice I'd have been born male, period.  Overall I don't think my life would have been much different; I'd probably have married a girl and had kids, but they wouldn't be the kids I have now.  So my life probably would have been very similar if I'd been born male.

But since I can't change things, I'm OK with what I have and who I am.  And I think it's cool, too, that I can live half my life as a woman and the other half as a man.  Not many can say that. 

Jay

[Tamara]

I would much prefer to be a cisgender female, it would be loads easier, I wouldn't have to worry about seeing specialists or getting hormones or srs or transition and passing etc. I wouldn't have to put up with all the crap from testosterone in my body.

However I would prefer to be as I am than as a cisgender male, I wouldn't like to have a different brain because then I wouldn't be me I would be someone comletely different, I know it would be easier but no thanks.

[Nero]

And I think it's cool, too, that I can live half my life as a woman and the other half as a man.  Not many can say that. 

Jay

It IS cool, ain't it? And I can't say I didn't have a blast as a woman even through the hardships because I did. Really is awesome to get to basically live two lives.

[Northern Jane]

Without a moment's hesitation: Cisgender: A body that matched

I have a pretty good idea how life would have gone and I would have been happy with it. I have done this road once and that is more than enough.

[Melissa]

For me, I would have rather been cisgendered, but I really don't care which of the 2 cisgendered options I ended up with.

[Constance]

Cisgender: A body that matched your brain.

Specifically:

- breasts & a penis
- softer jawline
- broader hips
- no body/facial hair

[Melissa]

Cisgender: A body that matched your brain.

Specifically:

- breasts & a penis
- softer jawline
- broader hips
- no body/facial hair

In other words, with Klinefelters Syndrome.

[Jenni]

Deffinatly a Cisgirl. oh and can I have my memory wiped of any memory of being in a male body?  That would be nice too. 

[Sarah Louise]

There is nothing that has happened in my current life that I would miss.  I would rather have been born a girl and grown up naturally and have the memories I would have had as a female.

Sarah L.

[Adam]

I'd choose being a cisguy, because that's just the way I fell I should have been.

[Constance]

Cisgender: A body that matched your brain.

Specifically:

- breasts & a penis
- softer jawline
- broader hips
- no body/facial hair

In other words, with Klinefelters Syndrome.

I guess so. Just without the hypogonadal and neurological problems.

[Rachel]

I have gained many great friends that I wouldn't have if I had been born a female, and definitely wouldn't want to be a guy, gross.  I am glad for my experiences, as bad they may or may not be sometimes, they created the person I am to this day.  So I'm saying stay the same as I am now if I had a choice, cause I become who I am because of it.