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Nov 14, 2005

Anosmoman posted:

eh I don't feel a different height but why would I care if someone else wants to have surgery to become taller? Generally people don't care. I mean you can do largely anything to your body and while people may deride or laugh at you none of it is anywhere near as controversial as changing your gender or just being attracted to someone from your own gender. You can have so much cosmetic surgery or weirdo body mods that you appear like a completely different person but if you crossdress you may just be murdered if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Society at large clearly values gender more than other physical attributes and we probably shouldn't.

Truth. As long as you APPEAR to conform...

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Nov 14, 2005

ReV VAdAUL posted:

While I'm unsure of the wider morality one potential benefit of the pill would be regarding intersex babies. Parents have to choose a gender for an intersex child at a very young age and they can thus pick the wrong gender by accident. The pill could at least lock in the gender the parents chose and reduce the anguish the child feels as it develops as a person.

Even then though I'm not sure how moral it is to match a child's personality to the arbitrary choice their parents made.

I also see a multitude of problems with this. As an idealist, this is too idealistic.

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