The choices went something like this:
Pink Pill.- You would become a young pretty girl and live your life as a woman.
Blue Pill- You would stay a guy without the burden of wanting to become a woman ever again.
White Pill- you stay as you are as a transgender person.
Of course, being a Libra I chose to pull out my scales and weigh out the issue and of course over reasoned it quickly.Here is what I came up with...I flushed the white pill immediately. No matter how I feel about my life as a transgender or gender fluid person now (and am even discovering some benefits to it)-I wish no one having to take the path I did.
Surprisingly to me I would have taken the harder of the two gender pills-the female one. The easy way out would have been the blue, which I will explain. Being a generic from birth I think would have put me directly in the path of trying to live up to the imagined expectations of my Mom. I know, she expected a ton from me as a son, but it would have been worse as a daughter. Plus, I think very simply, girls have more layers in their environment to learn and deal with than boys. Plus females are the high maintenance gender physically of the two binaries. There is more that can go wrong in the plumbing and wiring.
Having written all of that- STILL give me the pink pill!
Finally, the Blue Pill. While I still think the concept of "Male Privilege" was a farce for me-the demands of growing up male ended up being a lot less. I grew up in a family dominated by macho males and I found out early how I could play the game-if I wanted to or worse yet had to. Plus how much easier would have it been to wipe out all the stress and tension of wanting to be a girl?
All in all, what a wonderful question and one that I guess has been floating around for some time.
Which pill would you take?
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