I said: NO, i would not take the pill if i were given the choice. I'm actually more unsure, but decided that i already pass at work and on the street without trying, which makes me feel good in any case.
i don't shave yet, my voice didn't go down that far, and i took after my mom- so I'd rather skip taking the 'normal pill' because THEN I'd even feel worse than i do now. plus i don't think that any kind of pill that would make me feel bad is a good pill to take.
that's just me.

I went with unsure....even though a life of GID caused many heartaches, I would not want to change who I am and morphed into because of it.....dont know if I'm making any sense here...

gina

Quote from: Eloise on May 18, 2008, 06:04:03 PM
I said: NO, i would not take the pill if i were given the choice. I'm actually more unsure, but decided that i already pass at work and on the street without trying, which makes me feel good in any case.
i don't shave yet, my voice didn't go down that far, and i took after my mom- so I'd rather skip taking the 'normal pill' because THEN I'd even feel worse than i do now. plus i don't think that any kind of pill that would make me feel bad is a good pill to take.
that's just me.

Thats really lucky... I hate shaving. SO MUCH!!!!!! I've ripped my facial hair out with wax before, and that hurts A LOT. You get to see all the wonderful black pods at the end of the hairs if you did it right. I wish they'd just STOP. Its the thing which makes my face break out and it makes me look 5 years older. Tim Buckley thought I was old enough to Booze it when I volunteered at his convention once... Goatee... Yea. Xens never ever doing that look again. I think my evil clone took over for a couple months. It was fun to stroke, but if I could have had it permanently gone, I would have chosen that.

And my voice is weird. My tone is dependent on how much pressure I put on my throat when I talk. When I'm more tired and less wired, it tends to lower somewhat. But people have said that I laugh like a 12 year old girl... So, its WEIRD...


The more I think about all of this, the more I really feel how real it is to me, and that it was almost meant to happen... Like life relinquishing its last bits of knowledge to reap society and live influentially and leave a mark- My last lesson before I'm ready, if you will. Everything is so bad, its like it was conveniently placed there to teach me some moral lesson... Like an episode of a cartoon, where they say, "Well... I've learned something today," at the end of the show. Only... Reality. Its almost like living in the Truman Show. This can be viewed as a paranoid delusion, but honestly, sometimes the occurrences are NOT RANDOM in the least.

Man... I ranted. But once again, NO. I would not take the normal pill. I actually think that every terrible thing that has happened to me killed another flawed area of my persona, and that it rises from the ashes (if it DOES. Lol) exponentially more powerful. Its like... I can laugh in peoples face if they tried sleep deprivation torture, cause I live that way NORMALLY. I'd probably gain a telekinetic power by day 3 (mental insanity, legally) and crush their skulls with radiation or something...

But yea.....

I like simple choice.  Yeap, I would take them so I woudl feel like right now. I am activly ridding and busy at work, this transition is just making things harder again.

I just feel 'Normal' now but I happen to be on HRT which means my breast are growing ETC. If the normal pill meant feeling like I am now without and body changes I would not hesitate to switch.


Alice

I want to change my vote. I voted as "currently in transition" before reading the details of the setup. I must have gotten it confused with pre-op. Actually I'm post-transition because I went fulltime last year.

I'm post-transition and I voted "No." Because if I weren't a trans woman, I wouldn't be me, I'd be someone else. It's that central to who I am. You can't subtract that without destroying the person I am altogether. And I have no way to conceive of my life apart from who I really am. If it were a different person living my life, it wouldn't be my life.

Define Normal
What is it to be normal? Is anyone truly normal to begin with? Does it matter?
I wouldn't take the pill, unless the pill made me a complete female no questions asked. I am for the most part happy with my life, hell if I wasn't born a male I wouldn't have the friends I have. I wouldn't even have my Boyfriend. He was my first REAL friend, and thus he will one day be my husband, Life is funny isn't it?

Quote from: Carolyn on July 21, 2008, 10:52:03 AM
Define Normal
What is it to be normal? Is anyone truly normal to begin with? Does it matter?
I wouldn't take the pill, unless the pill made me a complete female no questions asked. I am for the most part happy with my life, hell if I wasn't born a male I wouldn't have the friends I have. I wouldn't even have my Boyfriend. He was my first REAL friend, and thus he will one day be my husband, Life is funny isn't it?

Sounds wonderful..

Unsure.

See, if it would completely wipe me clean of my male identity, make me enjoy being a woman, destroy my desire of having a penis and enjoying male intimacy... then I think I would take it. But that's really only if the pill would also make me forget the attachment I had to being male. Otherwise, I'd go for transition anyway. Because I'd rather be "half male" and happy than full female and only half alive.

No, I wouldn't take it.

I like Kate's answer the best - it's a form of suicide.  It'd be the obverse of downloading a copy of your mind into a cloned body of the right sex - then killing the original.

Wouldn't be the first suicide attempt for a lot of us...

No, I wouldn't take it.

I voted NO.

I would rather had been born Female

I would never want to be a man ,never!

it was a mistake , so Id rather suffer as trans than be something that horrible (no offense)

What is "normal" exactly, anyway?  If it meant that I would no longer really be the me that I am, then NOOO!   I really like me now and I would not have the life I currently enjoy.  It is also currently improving all the time.

Besides, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know.

If you want the "normal pill" it already exists in the form of a transorbital lobotomy (cf. Shutter Island).
So no I would prefer to keep my identity intact and carry on with my dysphoria.

Of course I'd take it. I wish this existed so I wouldn't have to spend years on medical treatments to eliminate the dysphoria.

No.
I don't want to change my gender, I want my sex matching my gender.
I don't need to be normal, but I wish to be cisgender; a cis guy.

Think I had this choice already, When I got offered T to fix my hormones, I went with E instead because I felt that it would be closest to who I was, I didn't want to be come someone else, or have thoughts I didn't recognise.

I tried to be normal once, it was the worst 5 minutes of my life!
And I don't mean gender-normal, I just mean normal-normal. Ugh. Should be spelled b.o.r.i.n.g

If it meant I was never transgendered I would snatch that normal pill and scoff it down so fast!
I really and truly don't understand how anyone would prefer to stay as transgendered, it's a huge curse, I hate it.