Poll: Would you change your gender?

[Hammartroll]

I've posed the question to myself in the past, only instead of a genie lamp it was a magic pill.
If the change was temporary for like a week to a month, then the answer is yes.
If the change was permanent... then the answer is probably yes, but I'd need to give it a bit more thought first.

The reason being that I've always felt like life would've been more fun, gone more smoothly and generally would've been an experience that matched my personality a little better if I was born female, ever since as young as I could remember.

The reason I posed the question to myself is because they actually got them pills except they work a bit differently, they're call hormones. I've never felt strong enough about the issue to want to take hormones though. I've found it helps me to try and disregard societies' notions on what a male is supposed to be.

 

[Zak757]

I'm almost certainly not transgendered, but at the same time, I don't really have any male identity either. Unless gender dysphoria is going to be a problem, I'd be fine a permanent change.

 

[Insane_Foxx]

I'd have to go with yes, and then may or may not stay changed depending on how things seam to be working out

 

[Shoggoth2588]

A month as the other gender? Sure, I'd give it a shot. Ideally though, I would ask the genie to make me without a gender. I already pee sitting down 9 times out of 10 and there's also the issue of all of the sex I never have anyway. The downside would be the increased amount of stigma attached to making myself unable to do my part in the creation of children. Which again, goes back to asking the genie to make me a third, anti-gender. I'll keep the hose because it seems like the best method of liquid waste disposal but that's all I really need. Boobs are great but could be bad for my back...take my balls, please!

 

[cth]

To all your curious and experiment guys: Every girl works differently, and if you want to be amazing in the sack, you just have to talk to your girlfriends.

The movie What Women Want was a great example. The guy was amazing in bed, because he could hear her think. So all you have to do is get her to tell you. Establish trust. Don't be douche bag. It's not that hard.

Experimentation isn't wrong, but you should do it with her. And don't be shy to try stuff. The safer she feels with you, the harder she will cum in the end. So you can't tell her you don't like things she likes right from the bat. Let her know you are willing to try. Some compromise and all is well. And if she wants to pee on you, but you OCD, accept that you probably aren't meant for each other.

Well, enough of that. Communication! Communication! Communication! aaaannnddd don't be a douche bag.

 

[Rabbitboy]

temporary, sure. To try out the pros and cons, to see what's a myth and what's very plausible. Like how many first dates, without having to pay, you could get away with, or how many drinks I could score at a bar/night club. And stay for the period thing, to see how annoying/painful it is.

I assume your body would match your current, and how would facial hair translate?

 

[sufjan]

I can't make sense of these answers.

 

[PsiChaos]

I'd do it for about a week or so, just to experience how it would be like. I'm always up for trying new and unusual things, and changing one's gender is about as new and unusual an experience one could possibly have since everything would be so vastly different. I don't know if I'd like to stay that way, (something tells me I'd make a horrible female) but I'm sure the experience of a temporary swap would be invaluable to have.

 

[ace_of_something]

Hell no. Being a male is 1000x's easier.

 

[CitizenM]

I'd try out being female just to gain a better perspective on what it is like for women (which I know already is rough, but there is no such thing as too much perspective). I'd like to know the emotional and psychological impact being female would have upon my mind. It would also be fun to be able to enjoy certain things in life (types of food, drink, movies, clothing, music, behaviour, etc) without being judged as weak or girly for doing so. I enjoy almost everything about being male, but I do tire of wannabe masculine fellas that ignorantly bash a movie or band I like because it's not some "man-card approved" bullshit.

But I would never do it permanently. As a gay male, life with boys is just far too much fun to ever give up. But if I could temporarily be a woman, I would definitely pity-fuck all my straight married friends

 

[CFriis87]

Become female?
Have my issues and feelings taken so seriously that public transport authorities will campaign to make men sit with their legs together on my behalf?
Have the law protect my genitals against childhood mutilation?
Get the right to vote (depends where you live and receive other public services, including student loans (such as FAFSA), job training, federal employment, and naturalisation when I turn 18 without having to sign up for selective service first?
Be subject to more lenient punishment (if any) for committing crimes?
Join the demographic that is least likely to be a victim in violent assault, homicide, or workplace death?
Be one fourth as likely to commit suicide?
Not get weird looks when talking or playing with children?

No thanks, I have pride, I'd prefer to keep it.

 

[CFriis87]

Hell no. Being a male is 1000x's easier.

Sure... Much easier.

Become female?
Have my issues and feelings taken so seriously that public transport authorities will campaign to make men sit with their legs together on my behalf?
Have the law protect my genitals against childhood mutilation?
Get the right to vote (depends where you live) and receive other public services, including student loans, job training, federal employment, and naturalisation when I turn 18 without having to sign up for selective service first?
Be subject to more lenient punishment (if any) for committing crimes?
Join the demographic that is least likely to be a victim in violent assault, homicide, or workplace death?
Be one fourth as likely to commit suicide?
Not get weird looks when talking or playing with children?

No thanks, I have pride, I'd prefer to keep it.

 

[Mong0]

Temporarily, then, so long as I'm not monstrously hideous and if the switch heals my spine and ear, permanently.

 

[GestaltEsper]

Well if everyone would think I as always a woman anyway, I guess. Personally I'd wish that I was born one. I'd rather have the experiences than just switch at some point during my life.

 

[CFriis87]

As I'm male cishet scum, [snip]

On behalf of the greater reasonable trans community, I would like to apologize for whoever called you that. It seems to have become a common insult leveled by more militant transfolk (most likely the attention-seeking hipsters seeking safe-harbor under the 'trans umbrella').

I'd also like to say that in spite of my inherent jade toward threads like this due to actually being and living as a more moderate trans individual, I think it's nice people are talking about this stuff. Maybe if people think about it more and start to consider the emotional trauma of having your identity undermined on such a scale, they'll be slower to 'he-she' and quicker to just 'they' or simply call by name instead of pronoun. Truly, it is the small things that really make your day when you're trans, and being accepted, even at a cursory level, makes you feel like you're walking on sunshine.

For my answer I totally picked 'Yes Permanent' but I'm not gonna tell ya which way ;p

No need to apologise for silly people who aren't you.
We cishet shitlords just use the term in a jocular manner to "reclaim" it so to say, like when black people call each other ******.
You seem like a very respectable and pleasant person, and I hope you're treated with the respect that you appear to deserve.
I can imagine it isn't easy to be living proof that gender is not a social construct, when popular identity politics dictate that it is.

 

[Zakarath]

Sure, I'd give being female a try. Broaden my horizons and all that, doubt I'd want to stay that way, though. Periods and such sound like a pain. Hmm, being able to switch back-and-forth at will would be really cool, though. I'd totally use it to cosplay as Saber.

 

[FPLOON]

Now to mix things up a bit and add a third option: futanari, completely functional. I suspect that I would go for that option if it existed, get all the parts I want, get the hormones, and still messing with people's heads by merely existing. I kind of have a provocative personality when I am emotionally stable. It is also interestingfrom an transhumanistic viewpoint.

Can I also have the third option? That goes double if I can't just have the power to gender-bend myself at will...

OT: However, if I could only change my gender, I'll stick with the one-month "free trial" option before thinking about going for the life-time subscription... Although, I would not be surprised if thinking of hitting on my childhood friend would be less creepy than it already is now, hypothetically speaking...

Other than that, the only intangible title I would loose is "first male-born in my family" since it would all seem like I was female to begin with, anyway... But, whatever...

 

[Carzinex]

Nah, wouldn't change a thing, i would miss scratching my balls too much!

I'm sure women have their own little non sexual pleasures they get from their bodies but i can't imagine anything beating a good old ball scratching

 

[Dr. Crawver]

Given I'd have a month (or less if it's awful) to turn back? Hell yes. I'd probably turn back even if I'm having a great time (I mean one month is hardly long enough to gauge what your whole life would be. Would need more like a year for that), but for the experience? Yes please.

 

[Tono Makt]

So here is the hypothetical supernatural situation of today. You find an oil lamp and rub it. A genie appears and offers you a reward for breaking an ancient curse and setting him free. Unfortunately the genies powers are very limited and he can only change your gender. However no one around you would notice and will treat you as if you have always been a man/woman. And you have a period of 1 month to go back and tell him you changed your mind.

Personally I would say no. Although it would be an "interesting" experience the downsides are just to big for me. Peeing while standing up would be impossible plus I would have to deal with menstruation and possibly giving birth to a child. Neither of which I have experienced but don't seem very pleasant.

So would you accept his offer?

As it stands? Heck no. I don't want to be turned into a woman on the verge of going through menopause.

If it was "Become an 18yr old woman"... I might give it serious consideration.