Would you take the pill?

Nope.  If I did, I wouldn't be me and I like me (albeit I'll like me more when I transition).

I'm leery of any pill that affects my brain because they tend to have horrible effects on me.

Never. Being a woman is the most wonderful gift. 

Heck yes!   That would be waaaaay less expensive than transitioning.  Plus I wouldn't have to deal with the mental torment every freaking second in my mind over the fact that I am not biologically male.

I would not take any such pill, but I would step into a magic machine that let me be a cis woman! I would also from time to time go into the machine to turn into a cis male, but not very often , would spend 90% of the time as a woman. (this is why i voted other)

In a heartbeat! I was a damn hot guy! :p

It's too late for me.  I already did everything the hard way.  But yes, if you had approached me before transition I would have taken the pill just to be normal.

?   Define 'normal'.

The more I see so called 'normal' people, the more I prefer the craziness of being me.

yeah, sounds a lot easier than hormones and surgery plus issues with family and friends, baggage and well not passing necessarily. Ask me if I would currently rather have a normal pill making me happy with my birth gender or becoming completely female, you might get another response though.

Probably not. Mainly because my sense of self and self-identity comes from my mind, from within myself. And it's taken me a good long time to realise that, actually, I already am "normal" in this context. I'm not someone trying to be someone else. Who I am is who I am. I just have a few anatomical discrepencies to deal with.

Altering that with a pill would place the emphasis on the anatomy instead. It's the biology which is abnormal, in my view, not the psychology or even spirituality. I am so much more than a body, or sexual organs, and I don't want to change that now I've finally come to terms with it and what it means to me. Altering 90% to fit the other 10% seems somehow... wrong.

Quote from: caliyr on May 30, 2012, 07:36:17 PM
Would you take the pill?

Normalcy is way over-rated.

Quote from: The Original Cami on May 30, 2012, 09:22:41 PM
In a heartbeat! I was a damn hot guy! :p

Doesn't mean you can't be a damn hot girl.

Quote from: Jamie D on May 30, 2012, 09:45:52 PM
Doesn't mean you can't be a damn hot girl.

LOL! I'm trying !

Quote from: Jamie D on May 30, 2012, 09:45:52 PM
Doesn't mean you can't be a damn hot girl.

(Psst, She already is.  Don't tell her I said that tho. )

For real! she's got a big enough ego already! :p

ahh but how would this said pill work on a inter sexed person? As some choose to have an operation and some do not. Some are still assigned a sex at birth and then later that person says "uh uh. no way, that's not me"

I still think the autopsies of mft and ftm brains shows that something is up, the brains are not the same as the anatomical outside shell (that is before they transitioned) Hence it is my opinion that transsexuals while not showing any signs that are obvious like male and female parts at birth, still have something that is different inside the brain.

Yes, I'd take it, or a pill that would make me instantly cis male, but it would have to also make me forget all the pain and discomfort of living as my wrong sex. 

Quote from: ShawnTOShawnna on May 30, 2012, 10:42:22 PM
ahh but how would this said pill work on a inter sexed person? As some choose to have an operation and some do not. Some are still assigned a sex at birth and then later that person says "uh uh. no way, that's not me"

I still think the autopsies of mft and ftm brains shows that something is up, the brains are not the same as the anatomical outside shell (that is before they transitioned) Hence it is my opinion that transsexuals while not showing any signs that are obvious like male and female parts at birth, still have something that is different inside the brain.

The problem for a lot of intersex people is they get even less say at birth than trans people, because doctors still perform unnecessary surgeries on the genitals of intersex babies because it will be "easier" to raise them with "normal" genitals.   I recommend the documentary Intersexion [/url]http://www.tigerhowarddevorephd.com/2011/07/18/intersexions-is-she-or-isnt-he/

Hmm.  So it wouldn't change my gender, it'd just make me feel ok about my body.  That complicates things...

If it actually changed my gender, it'd be an obvious no, since then I wouldn't be me anymore.  Rationally it'd be a good idea (assuming it's an ideal hypothetical pill with no risk), but it goes against some pretty deep instincts to let myself be changed like that.

But if I keep my gender and just feel good in my body as it is...  it would still make things easier for me, and it's very tempting, but it sounds like some kind of happy pill.  Something to take and forget my problems.  I've already tried letting myself be prescribed more and more "happy pills" until my mind was mush and I couldn't feel anything.  I'm still on one of them, but overdoing it was one of the things that contributed to me considering the previous decade a partial disaster for me.

So no.  Although admittedly I may be biased and taking too much of my emotional baggage into the question.