I had a hysterectomy/oopherectomy, and I do feel a bit less like a woman (I joke that I’m a female eunuch). It’s not just the missing sex organs, but the disruption to hormones that affect a lot of other systems in the body. I’ve come to think of gender as a continuum with male at one end, female at the other, and an infinite range of hermaphroditic phases in between.

…at the end, one of them would have to cancel their contract of the deal.

That’s why factories like robots because they don’t complain.

(Get it? Cyborg.)

there are so many neurons and nerve cells on the gut that some call it the second brain

and how much of your brain can be removed without you stopping being you?

My favorite personal example happened a couple of weeks after I met the person who I’ve now been married to for almost 17 years. I was mad about something and started to say, “You always….” She just smiled at me and said, “I don’t always do anything. We’ve only known each other for two weeks.”

I think this process applies to our ordinary perceptions of both self and others. Almost no certainty withstands the test of honest self-inquiry.

The general rule, however, is that people who’s personality differs enormously from their original persona usually has a *lot* to hide from the rest of society, with a shameful past.

Note that a virtual sex change doesn’t always mean you’re a friendly/rouge online con artist.