I’ve often used the “what if you woke up in the opposite sex body” thought experiment too, when talking with people, because I think it highlights how ridiculous “gender dysphoria” (as something which our culture completely invented) really is. Yes, I would be bummed out and disappointed to wake up as a man, but I would just have to deal…
I’ve often used the “what if you woke up in the opposite sex body” thought experiment too, when talking with people, because I think it highlights how ridiculous “gender dysphoria” (as something which our culture completely invented) really is. Yes, I would be bummed out and disappointed to wake up as a man, but I would just have to deal with it and live with it. The idea of taking hormones and getting breast implants and cutting off my genitals would not occur to me: it would absolutely not make my situation better, nor would it turn my new man-body into a woman-body. Nor would I be “suicidal” — I would simply have to live with it and get on with living my life, same as everyone else.
We go through life not getting a lot of things we want. If a kid wants to be the opposite sex, fair enough, but there are a lot of things we wish that we can’t have. I wish I looked the way I did when I was 19. I wish it was easy in my middle aged body to lose weight. I wish I had enough money to retire. Some people wish they were taller or had a different eye or hair color: oh well. We are who we are. If anyone is acutely distressed by that, they need therapy, not surgeries and “affirmation” of a wish which is counter to reality.
I’ve often used the “what if you woke up in the opposite sex body” thought experiment too, when talking with people, because I think it highlights how ridiculous “gender dysphoria” (as something which our culture completely invented) really is. Yes, I would be bummed out and disappointed to wake up as a man, but I would just have to deal with it and live with it. The idea of taking hormones and getting breast implants and cutting off my genitals would not occur to me: it would absolutely not make my situation better, nor would it turn my new man-body into a woman-body. Nor would I be “suicidal” — I would simply have to live with it and get on with living my life, same as everyone else.
We go through life not getting a lot of things we want. If a kid wants to be the opposite sex, fair enough, but there are a lot of things we wish that we can’t have. I wish I looked the way I did when I was 19. I wish it was easy in my middle aged body to lose weight. I wish I had enough money to retire. Some people wish they were taller or had a different eye or hair color: oh well. We are who we are. If anyone is acutely distressed by that, they need therapy, not surgeries and “affirmation” of a wish which is counter to reality.
Well said. I completely agree.