When I was a man, I had a preference for daughters. Not that I hated the idea of having sons, but I would have picked daughters every time if I had the choice. But as a woman, I don't think I mind, and I'd ideally want a mix. Does anyone else relate to this?
This got a good discussion in r/ftm so I wonder how the reverse would go here
>Say you are forced to live in one of two hyper-unrealistic scenarios:
>World 1: You have a cis female body. You have the high voice, breasts, functional vagina, etc. Yet everyone else completely perceives you as male. It’s like their brains automatically overwrite reality, or the light/sound waves glitch before hitting their eyes and ears (this sensory distortion covers all kinds of sensations, not just visual or auditory. No matter what kind of interaction you have with people, they will perceive you as male).
>World 2: Your body stays entirely pre-medical transitioning. However, the entire world perceives you 100% as a female through that same brain-overwrite/sensory-glitch mechanism.
>Which world would you pick?
>I thought about this because I’ve been thinking about how much of my dysphoria is internal/physical vs. external/social. I always assumed mine was mostly physical, since once I had the chance to go on E and surgeries, I rushed to get them all done. But in real life there's no sensory-glitch and you can't separate your own physical changes and social perception from others.
>When I tried to answer this (both choices suck, I know), I realized that I’d choose World 2. To me, having society treat and see me as a woman matters more than having the anatomical parts in total isolation. And this surprises me. It’s wild to think about how much gender is a social construct and how heavily it affects everyone's life.
>What about you all? Which world would you choose and why? It might be different for different people.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ftm/comments/1u24cm5/thought_experiment_which_one_would_you_choose/
Without revealing that you are them from the future, do you think you could convince your past self to not transition? Would you want to? What would you say?