I think the fantasy about temporarily being the opposite sex is a lot like a man who wants to fly living in a world before airplanes and wishing aloud that his flying potion would work. What people want is possible in a lawful universe, but what they say they want is filtered through their intuition and experiences and as a result it doesn’t make complete sense.
What people want from this fantasy is high-quality information on what a best-case scenario of medical transition would be like, and minimal side effects from acquiring that evidence. That seems like a reasonable thing to want. For any medication or surgery, of course you’d like to know before agreeing to it how it’d affect your life. And if you’re trying to predict disasters in order to prevent them, letting a disaster happen and taking notes isn’t a great information gathering method.
I think the fantasy about temporarily being the opposite sex is a lot like a man who wants to fly living in a world before airplanes and wishing aloud that his flying potion would work. What people want is possible in a lawful universe, but what they say they want is filtered through their intuition and experiences and as a result it doesn’t make complete sense.
What people want from this fantasy is high-quality information on what a best-case scenario of medical transition would be like, and minimal side effects from acquiring that evidence. That seems like a reasonable thing to want. For any medication or surgery, of course you’d like to know before agreeing to it how it’d affect your life. And if you’re trying to predict disasters in order to prevent them, letting a disaster happen and taking notes isn’t a great information gathering method.