Taken from this thread, by request: If you woke up tomorrow morning and you were the "opposite" sex than you were when you went to bed, would your life be different? How? Better? Worse? Same?
To those among us who are intersex or currently transitioning or in some other way don't fit the binary structure of the question, please feel welcome to interpret the question as appropriate, e.g. if you woke up and were no longer intersex or if you woke up and had mind-body gender alignment, etc.
If I woke up tomorrow as a man, my life would be wildly different. The precise ways in which it would be different is contingent on whether my sexuality remained fixed, making me a gay man, or switched along with my bits, making me a straight man. If I were a gay man, I would gain male privilege and lose straight privilege, rendering my marriage void, just for a start.
If I were a straight man— If I woke up a straight man tomorrow, I believe I would go utterly mad. I fear that being a straight man even for a day would expose to me the comprehensive scope of my inequality in a way I have never been, a grotesque vision from which I don't believe I'd ever fully recover.
I fervently hope to continue being a woman when I awaken tomorrow.
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