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Imagine you have a case of terminal cancer, and your only hope for survival is an experimental new therapy which will rewrite your genetic code at the molecular level. On the upside, you will live in perfect health for at least another sixty years. On the downside, you will have the appearance of a beautiful teenaged girl for the rest of your life.
Would you be willing to undergo this radical and potentially dangerous new treatment? Are you prepared to sacrifice your masculinity for an irreversible cure? Could you adjust to your lush, sensuous new body if they threw in a few million dollars compensation?
Wow, what a stupid question.
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well yeah, obviously
Even leaving aside that everyone in my family that's died of cancer didn't have the most pleasant deaths.
Why wouldn't I take the option that fixes it, and my dysphoria, and my other health problems? (Plus not getting hassled over "dressing too young")
Kind of a no brainer really ...
Be Interesting, Actually...
...to know how many people would accept a life of gender dysphoria, given all those other perks, over no life at all. I'd guess even macho men would mostly go for it. (Of course, that's the premise of Nuuan's Project: Super Soldier.)
Eric
depends on the exact method
if it involves some maintainance nanites or the like that may be a problem assuming they keep restoring changes (and would they effect tattoos?)
if it is a one off treatment then presumably FtM transition may still be a possibility after it is completed for those who want/need to switch back to being male
That's a tough one.
Hmmmm. Death or ...... any other choice ..... I think that I would be fine with any living solution with functionality. I've been trapped in this body my whole life, so the option sounds great to me. Think of it as a poetic release.
Medical science marches on!
Are the black garter belts and stockings a part of the process? Or can I opt for white ones?
When I went to the hospital all they gave me was an ugly backwards robe-thing
that left my butt hanging out...
"Government will only recognize 2 genders, male + female,
as assigned at birth-" (In his own words:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1lugbpMKDU
Garter belts
Garter belts are optional.
In a ...
heartbeat! :)
Sara
Between the wrinkles, the orthopedic shoes, and nine decades of gravity, it is really hard to be alluring. My icon, you ask? It is the last picture I allowed to escape the camera ... back before most BC authors were born.
Wrong audience...
The majority of BCTS readership would be signing up for this treatment even if they had no cancer or whatever. LOL.
Abigail Drew.
As the question is posed...
...this is clearly a no brainer. A horrible death vs 60 years healthy life and a few million dollars thrown in.
But for those of us without gender dysphoria, take away the terminal cancer and the few million dollars, etc, it becomes a more taxing question.
Swapping my aging body for that of a teenager is motive enough, but I certainly wouldn't want to swap to a female of my age.