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PaperclipPerfector  2d ago (text post)   2287 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 8, 2026

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If the button was as trivial as a character select toggle on a computer game I don't see much reason why anyone wouldn't press it. Five minutes, switch back, what have you lost? If you're talking about it being a magic, transgender fantasy, one way, fully seamless and socially integrated instant sex change button with no returns I don't think anyone other than the current transgenders would press it because they're the only ones that want what it offers.

There are a thousand computer games where people push a button and play being a soldier but most don't push the same buttons to enquire online about enlisting even though it's a perfectly real opportunity.

I don't think anyone other than the current transgenders would press it because they're the only ones that want what it offers.

I feel like there's gotta be some population along the lines of 'Would be down to change genders if they had a painless instantaneous actually-effective methodology but don't think the current sex-change meta does anything to actually help them', though I can't imagine that'd be an overwhelmingly large population

Maybe. It implies either a sincere interest in permanently abandoning their current sex, or a sincere interest in joining the other sex, but not an indifference such that changing would be no benefit, because it would follow that remaining would be no worse. But also an interest that isn't strong enough to accept the substitute of even temporarily changing gender.

It's a little like trying to think of someone who would enlist but wouldn't wear any camo that wasn't issued.

I suppose the men who want to transfer to women's prisons might qualify. I can't think of any others. Faildaughters of nobles in primogeniture jurisdictions, perhaps?

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