• fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 hours ago

    i know that the trans community around here overwhelmingly leans transfem, and that’s chill, but these hypotheticals always entertain me, as a transmasc

    like, does this button do nothing to me? does it undo my surgeries and hormones? does it give me gender dysphoria about my surgeries and hormones? it’s funny to wonder about

    however, i would not press the button to find out :)

    • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 hours ago

      It also specifically says “girl” and not “AFAB,” so it might just change a trans woman into a trans girl with most of the same problems. I guess it might be helpful for someone who lives in a place that has recently become better about trans healthcare, since they’d effectively start earlier.

      Trans boys would benefit the most. No change in age and your dysphoria disappears. Even better for those who haven’t come out, because that would be an extra awkward conversation to have the second time (except now instead of trying to stop you, they’re trying to give you a podcast).

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      11 hours ago

      Plus, it’s only implied but it seems that not pressing the button has a nonzero chance of a million. I’d like a million

  • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 hours ago

    Here’s some real horror. Let’s create a real trans version of Button, Button.

    One day a man shows up at your door and hands you a wooden box with a button inside. He tells you, that if you press the button, it will instantly change your sex. But in turn, when you press it, it gives, “a total stranger whom you will never meet gender dysphoria as strong as you have ever experienced.” The stranger than leaves to let you mull over your options.

    If you fall to temptation and press the button, the strange button indeed changes your sex, instantly and totally. You literally end up with the same body you would have had if you had been born the opposite sex. And you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you just gave gender dysphoria to someone. You have cured your curse by giving it to another.

    The next day, the person you got the box from shows up to collect the box and says, “it will be sent in for reset. After that, it will be sent to a total stranger whom you will never meet.”

    Ultimately, you end up with a fully transformed body…and gender dysphoria in the opposite direction.

  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Is the button nailed down? I could make way more than a million by charging ten euros for each use of the button.

      • Mustelidae (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        28 minutes ago

        Are you trying to get me to cry ? 'Cause right now I am holding back some ghost tears ;__;

        What a lesson tho… the button is so honest that it will acknowledge I am already a girl, fantastic !

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      16 hours ago

      How does it work on repeated button presses? Does it flip you back and forth between male and female, or does it just keep driving you further and further into the the female side of sexual dimorphism and female gender stereotypes? If you press it a dozen times, does it turn you into a 4’8" woman with a large chest, narrow waist, huge hips, and whose only desire in life is to become a tradwife?

  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    I don’t think it would do anything for me… but if it changed my body to be more feminine then that’d be cool, I’d press it