# If I had to change gender... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 23, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358 "2011-02-23T17:31:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/21 "2011-02-25T19:22:20Z")
Barack Obama. ---
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/22 "2011-02-25T19:30:08Z")
I’d pick some fit young athletic guy, maybe a soccer player. It’d be fun to be young again, and fit, and the whole peeing standing up thing might be fun. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/23 "2011-02-25T20:12:05Z")
> [@Queen](#): > > …and the whole peeing standing up thing might be fun. You’ll want to make the switch in winter, then – right after a nice snowfall. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/24 "2011-02-25T20:22:41Z")
Someone who’s healthy, corrupt, and rich. Healthy because then I could be healthy for a while, do the sort of things I can’t do now. Corrupt and rich because the former would make me not feel bad about destroying the later for the benefit of those less fortunate. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/25 "2011-02-25T20:42:30Z")
Michelle Obama and pull a Bill Clinton in the Oval Office with some cleaning boy and then send the tape to me. When I switch back I’d sell the tape for millions of dollars to some porn company and then retire on some tropical island. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/26 "2011-02-25T20:59:37Z")
Ellen DeGeneres. I’d be rich and I could spend all month having sex with Portia deRossi. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/27 "2011-02-25T21:47:18Z")
Retain my own identity through the chromosomirror, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/28 "2011-02-26T01:28:55Z")
Audrey Hepburn . . . around the time she made \*Breakfast at Tiffany’s. \*Actually, my partner is polysexual, and would be happy with me no matter what I became . . . even just a female version of myself. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/29 "2011-02-26T02:57:13Z")
I have to say that the first thing I thought when i saw the thread title was “… which one would you choose?” Stephen Hawkings. I would like to know that level of brilliance. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/30 "2011-02-26T03:11:42Z")
I think I’d be Leonardo DiCaprio and then I’d rub my hands all over my body. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/31 "2011-02-26T04:46:42Z")
As a gay man, I always think of the Italian pop song whose lyrics go, “Se fossi una donna, sicuramente, che grande putana sarei”—loose translation, “if I were a woman, no kidding, what a super slut I’d be.” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/32 "2011-02-26T08:25:55Z")
Before I answer–if I do this, does she become me? If not, are there now two of her in the world? ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/33 "2011-02-26T16:55:15Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Before I answer–if I do this, does she become me? If not, are there now two of her in the world? For argument’s sake let’s say he or she just disappears without anybody noticing for 30 days. Not really realistic but that’s why it’s a hypothetical. ---
**Author:** ![Allthegood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Allthegood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allthegood)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358/34 "2011-02-28T05:23:44Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Retain my own identity through the chromosomirror, thank you. Retain my own identity and synchronize so that AHunter3 is female while I’m male. There are things I’d like to do to him that I can’t as a female. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-had-to-change-gender/572358.md?page=1)