The "99% A, 1% B" meme is generally meant to mean that it's either/or (i.e. no multiple button hits), so if you hit option B and didn't already have gender dysphoria you just become dysphoric with no money and even worse healthcare...
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The Obottom surgery, they call it
how about
- 99% chance you get 1 dollar
- 1% chance you turn into 1 million girls
I assume the button 1% would turn you into opposite gender/sex/whatever, and you spam it till you hit twice the 1%?
You can change society in ways such that people understand transitioning to be a normal/casual thing now with that amount of money.
Why is it assumed that you'd have dysphoria in such a scenario?
It doesn't, this is based on one specific person's (OOP) gender. It's more about how having a bajillion dollars makes gender dysphoria into an incredibly easy problem to solve.
They might be saying: what if the button changes your external sex characteristics AND your internal relationship with gender
Which seems entirely not a problem
Yeah, “oh no I'm incredibly wealthy and have no other problems as a result except now I probably need new clothing which I can afford” kinda a no brainer.
Plus it would be at least interesting to have both (major) gender experiences as a cis person. Could answer a lot of subjective questions. Might even get famous about it if you can prove it through DNA or something.
TBH being a woman in today's world seems like a pretty bad deal.
You know what, fair lol. Though its pretty fucking awful to trans women too.
Thess 99%/1% questions usually have the 1% be something bad and the bad in this case would have to be dysphoria
I think the spirit of the question is "what if it was a trickster genie and you didn't get what you thought and were unhappy?" Like, rather than the question as phrased, I imagine the intent was "what if the 1% chance was permanent gender dysphoria regardless of any practical steps taken to alleviate it?"
I wonder how many people would just go "eh, whatever" if this happened to them, especially considering all the disadvantages of being a woman in today's world. Plus if their mind stays constant enough that becoming dysphoric is a possibility, they'd have to deal with suddenly being a different sexuality. All in all it seems pretty traumatic if it wasn't something you wanted.
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