i think positing a dramatic change to one's mind such that their gender is changed to being cis with their AGAB as positive is uh... perhaps, lacking in trans perspectives. for many of us, that's a full on horror situation, something like, if conversion therapy existed, but it worked

of course, there have been trans people who would opt in to this sort of change, and this statement is not meant to invalidate them

but i still think it's worth pointing out, since, at least to me, it comes across as a little insensitive (due to the implication that being trans is a universal negative, that being cis is always preferable to, even in the instance where it would change a fundamental characteristic of a person, such as their gender)

that reason is the reason why my parent comment ends with "i would not push the button to find out" lmfao

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(as an aside, i don't think the hypothetical is about age, at all)

Oh it’s special

Do the tongs tong tho? Have you checked?

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 !

What I was thinking tbh

I don't trust genies. If I ever meet one, my wishes will be:

"For my first wish, locate a black hole at least one hundred billion light years from Earth. Find a particle like a stray proton that is about to fall into that black hole. Make it fall in a nanosecond faster than it otherwise would."

"For the second and third wishes, just do that two more times."

If genue lore is anything to go on, simply not wishing for anything is a bad move. Otherwise, the genie might just magically pop up one day to grant your wish when you accidentally say "I wish...." at an inopportune moment. Best to exhaust the wishes on the most inconsequential and trivial thing I can imagine. Find a black hole that's literally outside our light cone. Find a particle that was already about to fall behind an event horizon and be unable to have any affect on the outside universe. Simply give it a little push and make it fall in a trivial bit faster. It's a wish that's both utterly trivial but also incredibly specific, thus minimizing the ability of the genie to twist it.

Also, meta-gaming a bit, this type of wish protects you from certain kinds of genies. If you're dealing with one of the truly evil ones, like from the Wishmaster series, they're still going to do everything they can to fuck you over. But some genies just like to punish mortals more for the hubris of it, a human daring to meddle with forces beyond their understanding, usually for their own greed. But make a wish like this? The genie will instantly get what you're trying to do and hopefully be less likely to actively seek to ruin your life in some horrifying way.

Anyone using :3 is automatically mtf anyway

Sure, but getting rid of dysphoria is a pretty compelling upside that a cis man wouldn't have. In fact, they might acquire it. The regret rate for -dysphoria +periods is low, but the regret rate for +dysphoria +periods would almost certainly be higher.

Of course, that's assuming that the button makes you female, which is not what the OP says. If a cis man pressed it, the most straightforward interpretation is that they'd turn into a trans girl, so they'd de-age and get dysphoria.

That said, and while I get that you're probably sick and tired of dealing with transphobes, their comment didn't actually mention trans people at all. I think you might have been a little trigger-happy there. As you said, trans women are not men, and their comment was talking about men, so it wasn't talking about trans women.

I Absolutely support LGBTQ+ People! My Comment was not made with Transpeople in mind. It was about "regular" men being confronted with the Fantasy choice of being a Woman by the push of a Button. That was indeed not clear from my comment. Thank you for asking! I added a note to my original comment!