Evan Urquhart

It really doesn’t need to be more than that. You don’t feel good about your body? Fix it. And the thing is, in a world like that where there’s no pressure either way, it would massively reduce the social pressures that seem to drive GC works like Shrier’s.

Because if gender/sex is seen as a *choice* rather than a destined fate, which it completely will be as soon as they learn how to transition reproduction, it’s very hard to continue the same kind of sexism we see in this world.

At first it would still be there, but as decades went on things would mix more, procedures will become more efficient, easier, and cheaper, and new generations will be increasingly brought up to account for people transitioning as a normal part of their world view.

The result will be that the human race will no longer be tied to birth sex. Since a lot of chauvinism has historically been rooted in the notion that men are born to be somehow *more*, the foundations of that view can’t be maintained in a world where anyone can easily transition.

All of this is a very roundabout way of saying: If you want to be a boy, you can just be a boy, And, If you want to be a girl, you can just be a girl.

This notion terrifies the GCs because right now transition is a massive thing. Some changes can be very difficult to revoke for the few people who realize that transition doesn’t work for them. There’s genuine danger of giving oneself actual GD if transition is taken lightly.

But the solution to those concerns isn’t to make transition illegal, or more difficult to obtain. The harder we make something, the more of a social price we exact, the more difficult it will be for people to feel free to go back if they change their minds.

In other words, transition must be so normal, boring, and easy to access (with financial and physical costs taken into account) that people can just try it for a while and see if it works for them.