If You Could Be Fully Accepted As Your Gender Identity Without Transitioning Physically Would You Still Do It?

[Guest praisedbeherhooves]

Let's say that you are transported 100 years in the future and the world has changed drastically. There still are gender roles, but third gender, gender queer, androgynous, bigender, and so forth people are accepted fully and treated how they wish to be treated and people are not harassed for violating gender roles. Let's say that a transwoman or transman who has not transitioned physically is accepted fully and totally as their gender identity and are treated just like any other woman or man. In this world, there would be no difference between a transitioned transsexual and a pre-op, pre-hormones transsexual in the way they are treated. Would you still have the urge to physically transition or could you be content with a genetic body that does not match your mindset if your body was not considered relevant?

[Guest Donna Jean]

No...NO...NO!

I WANT MY BODY!!!

Donna Jean

[Guest Jay_son]

Nooooooo, I'd still want a male body to match my mind/soul...its for me, not the rest of the world.

[Guest Opal]

I would still wish to transition. It is a deep, internal core sense of being and who I am.

Hopefully, by that time in the future, the whole process could be performed earlier in life, and change occur much quicker.

Hugs,

Opal

[Sally]

I doubt that I could be convinced that the body was not relevant and I do feel that transitioning is for the individual not for the feelings of everyone else.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest Cris]

Mind and body need to match. I used to look in a mirror and always saw a stranger staring back at me. Ive been on HRT for about 17 months. I am starting to recognize the lady who looks back at me in the mirror now. Absolutely positively would still transition.

Cris

[JenniferB]

No way would I accept that. When I decided to transition to female, that includes everything that goes with it.

Susan

[Guest childofwinter]

I could live very happily in a world like that, although I would still want to make my body slightly more feminine - I certainly would get rid of body hair and my caveman brow ridge.

[Guest Lee-Asher Geo-James]

I would still do it because this is for me not the world around me.

[Guest Donna Jean]

I find this question interesting and the answers even more telling...

100% (as I can tell) would still want to have body/mind match....

I guess that's a pretty strong feeling amoung us all......

Dona Jean

[Guest CharlieRose]

It would be lovely to live in a world like that, certainly easier, but there are still some physical things I would want changed.

[Guest My_Genesis]

I would still want to be physically male. I think that probably causes more dysphoria for me than the social aspects of gender.

[Guest NatashaJade]

Well that wouldn't be any fun, now would it? I don't care what everyone else thinks (okay, not totally true, but still...). It's about me first. I need the change for my peace of mind.

luv

Gin

[gennee]

I wouldn't change anything about me.

Gennee

[Guest Elizabeth K]

I have to be me - a match in body, mind and soul. It's what I am! I would just hope 100 years from now I could transsition fully - XX, functioning genitalia - height, and size - fully a woman.

Lizzy

[Guest Mia99]

I have to be me - a match in body, mind and soul. It's what I am! I would just hope 100 years from now I could transsition fully - XX, functioning genitalia - height, and size - fully a woman.

Lizzy

Wow, good question! Hopefully in 100 years the surgery would be cheaper less risks, and more complete. If that was the case yes. But now I wouldn't. What is causing me some trouble is I have accepted who I really am but I like having the "safety net" of being male. I can just stop hormones and there you have it. I 'm back to my "old self". But I know I will be back to the depression and anxiety I have now. Oh how I wish people could accept other people for who they are. I know I need to not care about what people think and live my life to the fullest. But I need to work on that. I'm looking for a therapist now so I hope they will help give me the courage to be the person I truly am. I hope this makes sense . I am new here and a little nervous.

Thanks,

Mia

[Guest Lee-Asher Geo-James]

I am new here and a little nervous.

Thanks,

Mia

Welcome to the family *hugs*

[Guest NatalieRene]

I would still want my body to match my mind. Even if they still accept you that doesn't mean they really see you as your actual role. It's tolerance nothing more. While thats perfectly fine, I want more then tolerance I want to pass.

[Guest Jennifer T]

For me, yes, I would have to change. I cannot stand the biological things that make me "male".

[JJ]

I've been thinking about something like this.

You see I'm a middle aged handsome man-and occasionally woman-living in a fat old woman's body that's not working very well. If I transitioned after years of time and expense I'd end up a middle aged handsome man in a fat old man's body that's not working very well. Not to mention the female part of me might have a bit of adjustment.

I might feel a little more right but I'd still be unhappy with what I got and part of the time I'd be really, really confused.

Now if they could make me look like David Bowie in Labyrinth I'd jump on it in a heartbeat and the feminine side would just have to learn to make the best of it.

Can't believe I actually said that!

JJ

[Guest SusanKG]

I would know. I would feel incomplete. I would in fact not be complete. As for the rest of society, bring on that enlightenment!

Susan Kay

[Guest Liam]

I would definitely still want top surgery, but I'm not sure whether I'd want hormones or not. Physically, my chest is the thing I'm most uncomfortable with, regardless of anything else, but it's hard for me to say whether my dysphoria around the rest of my body would be as great if there were not social issues and influences.

[Guest doodle]

Yes. I hate my body for being male and i love the effect that hormones and everything else that I have been doing I wouldn't have any more choice then I have now. \

Kelly

[Guest Silver]

I would still want to physically transition. There is no point if I still see someone else in the mirror. For my comfort, I would want T and top surgery, and perhaps bottom surgery if it would improve.

[Guest Dark_Angel]

Yes I would still have to make the change, the only way I will ever be truly happy is if I was in a males body.