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

[Guest barton]

While the acceptance would be nice, I definitely would still want the physical transition. It just wouldn't be right until things started matching up between my mind and my body.

In a hundred years time those types of surgeries would probably be a breeze and way better than anything we have today. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if the surgeries were no longer neccessary and it was done via gene therapy (even today, they've done studies involving mice were a certain gene was manipulated. in the female mice, their ovaries started to develop into testes.)

[Guest i is Sam :-)]

i'd still need the hormones they have effectively corrected my faulty chemestry and my mind functions better for it.

as to whether i'd change my body, well.. i'd've been wearing mostly girl's clothes, (or clothes of that style - they probably wouldn't be gender labelled anymore) and would have chosen to style my hair and such in a femine way. i'd've done this just because it's how i wanted to dress and this is a society where that choise is the same as choosing to wear a red shirt vs a blue one. I'd have to have the facial and body hair gone, in order to achieve the look i'd want.

I'd want to have the body to match it, real breasts vs stuff, partly maybe just because stuffing limits what you can wear, but also i do really want my body to be what i know it should be, i also want to be able to have sex and enjoy it, and i'm pretty sure that'll only happen with the right plumbing. But would I do it, is the question I'm pondering, I'm wondering if in a society where I already had so much and felt better for it, if I'd still be willing to take the plunge and make drastic changes to myself, if I would still feel the same level of desperation that pushed me to do something most would see as insane.

I don't know, on the other hand there's a strong possibility that I would never make the decision to transition, but it would just progress naturally, I'd want the clothes then and the hair, then decide I want laser, then decide I want the boobs and then just decide I feel better that way so why not change my body? it might not even be thought of as changing gender, but rather just customising until you're happy, and maybe altering your body in such ways would be commonplace and people wouldn't think anything of it. a time where having costmetic surgery is like getting a tattoo or having your ears pierced.

I probably wouldn't worry about changing my voice, and i'd feel more comfortable being able to be andro/boyish if i wanted on occasion without worrying that people will judge me and think that i'm not really a girl.

so yeah interesting thought, I'm pretty confident that however it happened i'd end up at the end point of the same basic path anyway, which is where i'm heading now.

[Guest vertigo]

Wow... Sounds wonderful!

I'd still do it. Transitioning physically is very personal to me. Even if others will see me as my gender identity and will accept me, but I'll still be uncomfortable with my body, what's the point? Nah. I'd love to finally have some peace in my mind.

[Guest willow ann]

I really don't know what I would do if i didn't have to transition to be a woman. I seen this at first and thought hey I could live without transition if that means i was treated as the woman i am all the time but then i thought that could never happen just today, even though I still am physically a man and dress as a man, I couldn't go to my daughters birthday party all because the people showing up there wouldn't necessarily be there if I'm there. I wanna scream I'm trying to be a man just so I can be around my daughters but whatever if y'alls don't want me there then I'm leaving and not coming back. that's just how I feel about it. I know down the road that I will regret not being able to see my daughters either one but right now I can't put up with these people and I can't fight all of them alone. I'm sorry for complaining here it just hit me

Willow Ann Whiting/Murray I LOVE YOU GEO!

[Guest Janica Lynn]

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?

Yes, I would still desire a body that matched my mental gender.

When I look in a mirror I see a shadow of what I should be, what I could be. I still desire a body that fits the clothes I wear.

I desire a body that does not need any clothes to fit my identity. The clothes only help me to pretend I have a body to match who I really am.

A century is a long time where technology is concerned. If we look at the advances made in the last ten years, I am sure imagination will fail us in envisioning what the world may be like a century from now.

I'm a dreamer, I know, but I would hope that gender identity problems become as easily dealt with as a simple vacination injection. Someday, that may come to pass. That is if we don't blow ouselves to bits in some mindless, testosterone driven frenzy.

Go to the doctor as what you are, wake up tomorrow as what you wish to be.

Janica

[Guest Bailey]

Nope..... gotta have the body. I want to ****BE**** a woman in every respect.

Aislinn

[Flint]

If the world was like that, it'd be nice especially when your in the in-between stages of transition. When your still pre things and waiting for things to happen, to have people still accept you as the gender you say you are while you're still having to deal with all that would be fantastic. But no it wouldn't stop me doing what I'm doing now, make it easier to cope with things in the now maybe. But it defo wouldn't mean I wouldn't go on hormones and things like that. I used to think as long as people accepted me as male as i was hormones and anything else wouldn't matter to me much, but I was in a case of denial. I now have come to realise I would never have truly been happy, while I may have been happy with people in my life deep within under the surface I'd probably still be a very unhappy individual. I'm not doing this so others will accept me (although if it does help people accept me as male that is just a bonus point to it) but it's more for myself. It's so I myself can look in the mirror it's so I myself can walk or wheel around with my head held high with confidence in my stride. It's for ME and only ME. Yes some aspects of it are to help me pass as male to the outside as male, but that is because I want to be seen that way.

[Guest Mrs. Miniver]

I would think by that time Genetic blue printing would be so common place that there would no longer be a question on whether you were a man or a woman.

[Guest Leigh]

i think i'd still want top surgery.

but other than that, i'd be fine.

peace&love

[Guest alexis94]

It'd be awesome to have a world that was accepting like that, But I would still go through with the transition to feel comfortable with myself.

[Guest Melanie Dawn]

No...NO...NO!

I WANT MY BODY!!!

Donna Jean

QFT (Quoted for truth)

Melanie Dawn

[Guest viv]

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?

100 Years Praised ????? I"d want to be pregnant Hun ,,,,luv ya ,,viv

[Guest Nick_Hosler]

I'm not transitioning for anything but my own peace.

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

[Guest Lynnx]

Well ya know I'm not medically transitioning, and i know that, as it is, i will never be accepted by others for who i am. If i could be accepted that would make the world wonderful. That would make it incredibly more easy to live in this body.

I'd still want my missing appendage, but if i got one would depend on if it works exactly like a bio-boys one.