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.

Not a chance. Thats would mean living each day in manhood. No thank you!

Would need to know a LOT more about the pill. ie: how does it do what it does?

Being the science-y type, I'd need to know how the pill works, but I probably wouldn't take it. My dysphoria is pretty manageable most of the time.

If the pill erases the trans then no, I wouldn't take it.  That would be akin to suicide, erasing who I fundamentally am.  The body would live on, inhabited by a different person.


It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide, Autumn Leaves

I answered yes only because one pill would be much less anguish and effort than transition. I feel much more comfortable after transition, but the costs are overwhelming at times. When I say costs, I mean all costs, financial, emotional, social and physical.

Can I change my answer? I didn't actually read the question before hitting yes... I just assumed it was would you take a pill to switch body types to preferred gender. Lol.

No. I've already begun to change physically. No going back. Would not particularly want to have the dude characteristics I now do while also keeping the female ones if I took your pill right now, lol.

I know what you mean. Maybe before I might have but it's too late to "be content" now even if I wanted to. My frame of mind has changed and I just want to get on with the process.

i've thought about this a lot, even so it's not possible.  honestly, i think the biggest reason i'd say "no" is because of all the self-righteous "i told you so"s i'd get from people who were convinced it was just a phase.  i wouldn't want to give them the satisfaction.  gotta cling to what few shreds of dignity i have, even if it's to my detriment...
i don't want to be transgender.  i don't want to live the rest of my life knowing that i'll never be a normal man, or be able to function like one 100%.  i don't want to be unable to have my own children.  i don't want to have to "come out" to every future partner even long after i pass in every other aspect.  i don't want to have to deal with others' disgust, hatred, patronizing, and confusion for the rest of my life.  but that's the path onto which i was thrown, whether i like it or not. 
if i could change something so that i never had to deal with any of this in the first place and have not been born transgender at all, that would be a much more tempting offer--though even then, if i hadn't gone through what i have, i don't know what kind of person i would be now.  maybe a much worse one, considering the environment in which i was raised.  maybe a much more judgmental, ignorant person like the family that still refuses to accept or acknowledge me today.  maybe i'd have grown out of that on my own, but i still wouldn't have the experience.  and experience is something i value, even when it's negative, because it always has something to teach and it shapes who we are. 
i find it really hard to imagine being comfortable in this body.  i tried for so many years, but the harder i tried, the less comfortable i actually was.  so being able to change that, to remove that discomfort, definitely has its appeal.  i could go on and live a normal life.  i wouldn't have to explain my body to anyone or warn them about it as if i had some disease.  i wouldn't have to worry about which bathroom i'm supposed to be in or whether or not people knew what gender i was.  i wouldn't even have to think about it. 
...but it would also mean that everything i had gone through up to this point was for nothing, and i don't think i could live with that.  all the stress, fear, depression, and arguments; one person after another trying to beat into my head that i was wrong and didn't know what i was talking about, and how hard i had to work to keep my chin up and get through those conversations, not backing down about being sure of who and what i was regardless of what they wanted me to be.  i think it really would kill me to just flip a switch and say "ok, you were right; i'm actually a girl after all." 

that said, i do wish such a thing existed for those who wanted it.  imagine noticing those feelings, being able to get a treatment that worked, and saving oneself from years of risk and hardship.  in a world where this kind of thing is finally recognized as a condition that should be respected and treated like any other, and not just some childish attempt to be different, a pill like that would be a dream come true for a lot of people. 

Quote from: meatwagon on February 24, 2017, 09:37:45 AM
i've thought about this a lot, even so it's not possible.  honestly, i think the biggest reason i'd say "no" is because of all the self-righteous "i told you so"s i'd get from people who were convinced it was just a phase.  i wouldn't want to give them the satisfaction.  gotta cling to what few shreds of dignity i have,

Omg bro this is so me in many regards. I have family like this. I know that my cousin named Mike would be so thrilled if i was defeated and went back into manhood. I have talked to him about this issue and all the feelings i have had even since childhood and the confusion and everything else. He doesnt  beleive i went through any of that saying if i was truely trans that there would have been ''signs''. He would point out all the things that apperently dont make me trans or not trans enough and when i point out all the great things estrogen has done to me like given me better mental clarity and even nice changes to the body his only reply was ''Well i still see some facial hair (was sick that day so rub alot of it under my nose off via tissue) and your voice is still pretty low''. Like i said, to him i am just some dude so in many ways i gotta thank him, it is people like him who push me to find my woman side even more. I refuse to give the negative doubters what they want, a miserable man instead of doing myself as a happy woman!

Actually many transgender people do take a pill to eliminate or reduce their gender dysphoria.

Living in our current sex??  It says "F" on my drivers license and that has been the real truth before I jumped through the hoops to own it.

Quote from: Tessa James on February 24, 2017, 10:53:20 AM
Actually many transgender people do take a pill to eliminate or reduce their gender dysphoria.

Tessa,
    That was the thought that first came into my head upon reading this question.

  Hugs,
    Jeanette

Quote from: Kylo on February 24, 2017, 09:29:42 AM
No. I've already begun to change physically. No going back. Would not particularly want to have the dude characteristics I now do while also keeping the female ones if I took your pill right now, lol.

I know what you mean. Maybe before I might have but it's too late to "be content" now even if I wanted to. My frame of mind has changed and I just want to get on with the process.

Kylo and I are on the same page - once I came out to the first person it was fait accompli for me.  I'm too far along to stop now. 

If you had given me the pill 18 months ago - YES.

I don't particularly enjoy being a man, though the privilege is very comfortable. I would trade a transman bodies so that the physical transition didn't take so long, though.

Welllll...  My current sex is Female, and I do take a pill to feel comfortable in my sex. And some patches...

I worked long and hard to earn my gender marker, thankyewverymuch.  I am female, and my drivers license and birth certificate finally agree with that.


Would I take a pill to have remained with my assigned gender at birth that would somehow make me happy?  Oh, heck no!  That would have to be the equivalent of a prefrontal lobotomy, destroying everything that had led to my taking that pill, wiping the me that is now from existence.  I'll pass.

I was miserable for decades, but the last few months of my life have been the happiest that I can remember since I was a child.  I am finally at peace with myself.   That counts for far more than some medical magic that would replace e with a happy artifice.

Quote from: Deborah on February 24, 2017, 09:08:50 AM
If the pill erases the trans then no, I wouldn't take it.  That would be akin to suicide, erasing who I fundamentally am.  The body would live on, inhabited by a different person.


It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide, Autumn Leaves

what she said.

Pretty much in agreement with everyone here. My identity may be hard at times, but it is mine and without it life would not be better, or at least it is hard to imagine it would. I don't envy the other gender and the stuff they face either.

Nope,never for it would kill me.

Quote from: CrystalMatthews0426 on February 24, 2017, 09:23:49 AM
Can I change my answer? I didn't actually read the question before hitting yes... I just assumed it was would you take a pill to switch body types to preferred gender. Lol.

Oh wow, I assumed just the opposite, that the pill would make the mind to match the body.
If it would make the body match the mind then absolutely I would take it. Oh wait, I did take it, and it worked (along with a little surgery)!

just need that mind swopping machine from Star Trek, you know the one where Kirk gets swopped into a woman, allways wondered why he never disappeared into the loo for a quick look/grope