Yes, lucky malfunction...

It's so funny how everyone assumes going MTF is also physical disadvantage. NOT true.

I always relied on speed and quickness, not power anyway. Less body strength now, but i'm more flexible and faster again on my feet more like i was in high school. Especially being a lefty with a one-handed backhand in tennis, with my shoulders now much looser and with speed i can get to balls out wide to hit back in the court the guys can only dream of...

Similarly, in indoor soccer the guys told me i was now a weak little girlie, then i smoked them with four goals in one game, they can eat their hearts out! :p

And i highly agree with you generally about finding hapiness. I'm a very goal-oriented person. While i had to "detour" from the rest of my life pretty much for a year to get thru the roughest part of transition, now i'm more focused and driven than ever as i know what i want in life.

I now see being trans as giving me something unusual i can use to my advantage as far as career....writing e-books on transiton and self-help, college speaking (they have student fee $$ to pay you!), etc.

With having been on both sides of the gender divide, so to speak, i've had several women ask me already for advice on how to deal with their boyfriends. I should become a dating coach or something too...

So yup, there are certainly advantages to going through the hassle of transitioning! :)

I don't understand what you mean by if it would make you more passable. What i posed was not a transition pill, rather a pill that would make someone believe their gender matched their body, without any transition.

I think orientation is not directly relevant to what i posed, though to give you an answer: no, it wouldn't change your orientation, wouldn't change *anything* else about you except make your mind and emotions match your body, instead of the other way around like with transition.

Hope that helps.

why can't you love both? We are a football loving household of all women here. In fact, time to go watch the saints!

Yes, transition is definitely character building. Of course, so was my father's suicide a couple of years prior, which was my wake up call to realize life is too short not to get on with it.

have you EVER had an interest i sex? i was wondering about that, and now that i see your post, it occurs to me that the T-blockers might ahve something to do with that, i dont konw if you miss it or not, if youre happy as is, than by all means keep doing what youre doin, just thinking if you DID miss it or wanted a change the T-blockers might be responsible for lack of sexual interest.

In a biochem class one we discussed gene therapy, theoretically deliverable by pill or injection. The topic of replacing whole chromosomes came up and was postulated what would happen if you replaced a Y for an X. The intricacies involved took up most of the class.
Generally it was decided that if gene therapy was done at an early enough age and in conjunction with growth factors/inhibitors it might be possible to change the existing morphology (body parts).

Assuming that such a genetic and morphologic change was possible it would still take years to fully manifest and the changes to body would be substantial and potentially awkward if not difficult has parts of tissues expressed and responded one why while the others adopted the new form.

Such a lengthy morphologic change would certainly be considered a transition even if the outcome was complete mind, body and genome unity.