Something to think about...

[LynnER]

*looking totaly perplexed*

A "Cure".... would make me happy as a guy........ ummmmm....... yeah........ not happening.......
So basicly your going destroy what little is left of my fragile mine and set me back to work as a physical layborer with no future..........
Becomeing happy as a guy wouldnt have saved my love from leaving...... it wouldnt have given me the drive necicary to do something with my life......... (was a total layabout and thats putting it nicely)

Despite the hard road ahead atleast I have a future.... I will go back to school.... I will advance at work...  I will prevail..........

This "cure" sounds like more of a curse than anything and Id gladly shove it down the DR's throat and see if he remembers who or what he is afterwards...........

[Melissa]

I would agree with Dennis

Now Dennis pass the lime and lemon babes!

Chynna

Chynna, you're one to talk about wasting alcohol.

Need I remind you about "miss thang"?

I like your style Sheila

I wouldn't say iwasted it...well worth him screaming and yell obscenetities has i walked out an the whole store heard him Ill be going back this weekend to lets see.....see how my new friends is doing!

LOL

Chynna

Melissa

[Chaunte]

You could grab the corona first and slap him with that.

Melissa

Oh no no no no!  This OSHA would constitues this a LOBA: Loss of Beer Accident.

You never want to have a LOBA.  The paperwork is overwhelming.  It's almost as bad as a LOPA!  (Loss of popcorn accident!)

**Blinks innocently**

Chaunte

[Melissa]

That's assuming it breaks Chaunte.  The corona bottles are tough (and you could alway sdrink the beer first) and you could probably break the cheekbones before you broke the bottle.

Melissa

[umop ap!sdn]

Ouch.

Anyway, I coulda sworn I'd replied to this thread already! Maybe it was a different one, LOL. If the doc offered this to me I'd run screaming. (Okay maybe not literally but I'd be very clear that I'm not interested.) For that matter, if the doc had a time machine and offered to go back and "fix" my brain in utero for free, I'd still say no way. I'm me and that would mean I'd never have existed in the first place.

For the same reason, if it were possible to diagnose GID in utero, I would not be in favor of any treatment that would align the fetus' brain to their chromosomes. Aligning the body to the brain would be preferable, if that could be done.

[Jillieann Rose]

I though I already responced to this message too.

No one is going to mess with this woman's brain.
It's the real me not the thing called a body. That's just my house and i'm starting to do some remoldeling to the house.
Later maybe some an extreme makeover, I hope.

Jillieann

[Melissa]

I think this subject has been broached more than once.

Melissa

[Jillieann Rose]

Yes it seems to be a reoccurring theme here.
But a very important one for many TS people.

Jillieann

[Owen]

I dont think I would want my brain to be messed with. I have to strong a desire to be female and no one is going to change how I see myself. I would transistion.


owen

love being female

[tinkerbell]

My answer is NO
because I am a woman!

tinkerbell

[Jessica]

If they were able to ask me in utero, and I knew then what I know now, I would have asked them to abort the pregnancy.

Jessica

[grazia]

Sure no, even if the 'brain treatment' were totally free of charge and problems. Otherwise I would be no longer me, but another person - probably better - but another one.

[fusi]

i dont want to be male, so it wouldnt be a 'cure'...

actually this reminds of the plot in x-men 3 lol :p

[Maggie]

No way, I'd go with transitioning.

This sort of thing scares me.  If it made me happy as I am.. would it really be me?  It'd just be some new, happy person.  The person who I was before, who I see as the real me, would have been "deleted."  Too freaky, I wouldn't do it.

[nonie]

Changing the brain is scary.  That is our identity.  Changing the body is way preferrable.  We're used to our bodies being mutable.  We're hardwired to know our bodies will change.  Even if it's just in the style of dress, we are used to changing our outward appearance when we feel it's right, and with science, money, and determination we can change the flesh itself...  But change the mind?  Then you don't have the person you started out with before.  GID is a part of all of us, has affected us our entire lives.  Notice the word "identity" in it.  Change that, and what you had before ceases to exist forever.

[sheila18]

i am  not the 'My' mind, the concept and idea of "my" appears in the universal consciousness, the concept of separation appears and vanishes "My" solidifies and 'becomes' real with our internal chatter runs our life.
  Lucid dreaming and Dhyana are only 2 methods to get back that original vision.
  the most common method is death, just ask people with prolonged death experieces that have come back.
I met this man with a clear and compelling account he has a message at a dharma-talk website.

  We can chose to be different sex without explanations, not because we are forced by life circumstances.  The day I dropped that story i found freedom.
love no matter what, sheila18