I had these questions sent to me and thought they were quite interesting. Have a go yourself (be truthful you don't need to publish the answers) you maybe surprised.
1. If you had a magic button that you could press that would make you wake up tomorrow as a girl, with everyone else understanding you and relating to you as a girl, irrevocably but painlessly, would you press it?
2. Alternatively, if you had a magic button that you could press that would make you wake up tomorrow still as a guy, but without any of the gender issues you have been having, not questioning your gender, and able to live happily as a guy with zero dysphoria, would you press it?
3. If you had both of those buttons, which one would you rather press, all other things being equal?
4. If you had a test that could tell you if you were a guy or a girl, which answer would you be hoping for as you took it? Which way would you try to skew your answers, if you did (consciously or not) try to skew them in either direction?
5. If you washed up on a desert island, by yourself, but with any amount of both male and female clothing, with no hope of rescue but otherwise everything that you needed for a relatively healthy and happy life, would you choose to present as male? Female? Neither? A mix of the two? One way some of the time, the other way the rest? If for some bizarre reason a lifetime supply of hormones washed up with you as well, do you think you'd take them? What if you washed up with the button from the first thought experiment - in a situation where you were by yourself, would you press it?
6. Let's say you had a test that asked about all of the things, very thorough, and at the end it would tell you, with 100% accuracy, whether or not you were transgender. So you take it, and it tells you, "Well, you've got some mild gender confusion, but you're definitely not transgender, and you shouldn't transition." How would that make you feel?
7. On the other hand, what if the test told you "Yup, you are definitely transgender all right, and you should probably start planning your transition." - How would you feel about that?
Katie x
1. If you had a magic button that you could press that would make you wake up tomorrow as a girl, with everyone else understanding you and relating to you as a girl, irrevocably but painlessly, would you press it?
DL - If I could change back and forth maybe and no one would say anything or care that it was out of the ordinary yeah why not feel like bing a girl today where’s the magic button as long as the magic worked both ways and I could change back when required.
2. Alternatively, if you had a magic button that you could press that would make you wake up tomorrow still as a guy, but without any of the gender issues you have been having, not questioning your gender, and able to live happily as a guy with zero dysphoria, would you press it?
DL - Nope I enjoy crossdressing I’d not press this button.
3. If you had both of those buttons, which one would you rather press, all other things being equal?
DL - The first one the second ones just nasty.
4. If you had a test that could tell you if you were a guy or a girl, which answer would you be hoping for as you took it?
DL - A Guy obviously
Which way would you try to skew your answers, if you did (consciously or not) try to skew them in either direction?
DL – A Guy but I’d answer truthfully otherwise what’s the point.
5. If you washed up on a desert island, by yourself, but with any amount of both male and female clothing, with no hope of rescue but otherwise everything that you needed for a relatively healthy and happy life, would you choose to present as male? Female? Neither? A mix of the two? One way some of the time, the other way the rest? If for some bizarre reason a lifetime supply of hormones washed up with you as well, do you think you'd take them? What if you washed up with the button from the first thought experiment - in a situation where you were by yourself, would you press it?
DL - So many questions in one question geeez.. If I washed up and had a mix of clothing i’d wear whatever was practical on the island. Crossdressing for me is more than clothing its makeup, wig how I want to try to look.
DL – lifetime supply of hormones … No thanks.
DL - If I had button number one course I’d press it I mean i’d be going mad as a man alone anyway on this island so I might as well be the woman in a weird self relationship right?
6. Let's say you had a test that asked about all of the things, very thorough, and at the end it would tell you, with 100% accuracy, whether or not you were transgender. So you take it, and it tells you, "Well, you've got some mild gender confusion, but you're definitely not transgender, and you shouldn't transition." How would that make you feel?
DL – It wouldn't make me feel anything as I know what I am and what I’m not
7. On the other hand, what if the test told you "Yup, you are definitely transgender all right, and you should probably start planning your transition." - How would you feel about that?
DL – I’d say thanks for the research etc but I was born a man and my life is as a man, father and husband.
Davina