You know how they say if you question your gender ask yourself, if you woke up the other gender what would you do?

I think I'd probably wish I were back as a man in that case, but honestly I'm not sure. I don't really care that much. I don't think I would probably try to transition if that happened. Transition seems like a lot of work.

I would probably just kind of... go with it, the same as I'm going with it as a man.

We will likely never know.

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Ruby wrote on June 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM

A though experiment i found useful when I was questioning was the button one: in front of you is a magical button that will perfectly change you physically to the opposite sex, and everyone who knows you will remember you as always having been this way. Would you press the button?

twovests wrote on June 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM

Something that turned me off from trans spaces ~10+ years ago was (what I felt to be) a strong messaging that, if you think you might be trans, you probably are. I read the "Null Hypothesis" and disagreed with it so much that I doubled down against the "pressure" I felt it implied.

I don't think asking the question makes you trans; and it would make for a bad place for the Questioning part of our acronym if we said it did. It would also be bad for cis allies (who would very reasonably ask themselves The Question, having many trans friends.)

I think another question worth asking is, would you want to transition even if nobody else in the world did? Or if trans community existed but it totally sucked? Etc.

Transitioning being a lot of work is another thing that kept me from it for so long. It's so much effort!