The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

True. And I suppose there is a hint of wishful thinking there. But I am in hell, and refuse to abandon hope.

dude, how much of your hell is a call to self-overcoming, rather than a call to overcoming some malignant external reality it's easy to be pessimistic when your locus-of-control is wholly externalized, and your will is always thwarted!

I can't not be transsexual, nor can I even modify my body sufficiently. If technologies emerged that made this possible I wouldn't be able to afford them. And I would still be trapped in a largely hostile society.

here's a perspective: even three decades ago *we couldn't even consider that this might be a problem we should solve* we *create* these problems i'm not saying they aren't real, but if we solved *this*, another, just as dire would rise up, that we wouldn't even understand today

That is sample bias on your part, transsexualism dates back to antiquity and probably to pre civ based on archeological evidence. Even treatments date back to at least the Scythians. It is a more traditional thing than most of what you would call western civilizational tradition.

not really relevant, our current concepts about this are not the same as theirs (or three decades ago, or even yesterday) you are a transformation, right now, driven by problems you see in the world

And explaining the texture of yogurt comprehensively requires knowledge of quantum mechanics. Who cares. The thing itself is the same regardless of epistemological limitations.

quantum mechanics can't actually explain the texture of yogurt "comprehensively" it's not like qm has solved the problem of qualia other than that, i don't know what you mean