# Would you accept a $250 Mil jackpot if it came with a mandatory sex change? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 12, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333 "2017-04-12T17:21:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/61 "2017-04-12T22:23:12Z")
> [@Crazy\_Canuck](#): > > As long as it’s cash up front, I’m game. I like my penis just fine, but it’s not worth hundreds of millions to me. Money may not buy happiness, but I’d still rather cry in the back of a limo than on a bicycle. > > I suspected more women would take the OP up on their offer then men, and reading the comments it certainly looks like that is the case. Don’t think of it as losing a penis, but as gaining a vagina. I like my penis very much too, and I don’t think I’d give it up just for the money. I’m still using it. However, for that much money \*and \*working sex organs, I’ll give it a try. I might have given a different answer when younger, but now that I’ve lived most of my life as a male, I’d be willing to run out my years as a rich woman. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/62 "2017-04-12T22:45:42Z")
> [@Folly](#): > > Not to speak for anyone else, but I think many of the yes’s are taking the gamble that compensated, voluntary gender dysmorphia is a lot more livable than involuntary. Probably, but I’m basing the statement more on the comments than votes (not to mention zillions of other threads on the same subject). Of course it’s impossible to know if dysmorphia is a problem without having tried, but the range in opinion suggests to me that the degree of identity is itself a factor. ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/63 "2017-04-12T23:12:14Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I think **Tranquilis** is correct-“You can’t have one without the…oooooother” Now I’m really confused. I specifically said I wanted a magical/sci-fi change, because I didn’t want to take hormones. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/64 "2017-04-12T23:32:02Z")
Sure. I’d let 'em stick a dick on me for that kind of money. Just get me good and doped up first. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/65 "2017-04-12T23:41:57Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Why would you no longer be a dude? Because he said a sex change. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/66 "2017-04-12T23:42:14Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I might have given a different answer when younger, but now that I’ve lived most of my life as a male, I’d be willing to run out my years as a rich woman. That is what Michael Jackson did. I would be perfectly fine to do it too for that amount of money. I have been a male all my life and, while I like it fine, I am not that attached to the concept. It would be a huge bonus if you could make me a really hot chick. I could just look in the mirror naked rather than watch porn or go to a strip club. Think of the time savings! Don’t expect me to take any dick from anybody else though. Sista’ don’t play that way. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/67 "2017-04-12T23:44:28Z")
If the transformation were absolutely seamless, yes. You know, if the magic genie would make me a woman without surgery, hormone injections, etc. The state of the art is fairly good these days…but not quite good enough, IMO. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/68 "2017-04-13T00:41:02Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > Gender dysmorphia seems to require at least two ingredients: being born in the wrong body, and having a strong sense of gender identity. It seems from this thread alone that there’s wide variation in the latter; some are really tied to being a dude/girl, while others don’t really care that much. I have a very strong male gender identity, have never felt that I was in any way female. But if I woke up tomorrow morning as a woman, I’d have no trouble accepting it. And the first thing I’d do would be seduce my husband into fucking me. And I wouldn’t have to ask twice. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/69 "2017-04-13T00:41:17Z")
Sure, but only if most of the $250 Mil went to Point 5cc or some similar organization(s). (While we’re here, should we start a poll to put a price on changing our ethnicity or is that going a little too far? I mean, I might turn English for a quarter billion, but only if there was some major social good that came out of it.) ---
**Author:** ![tuesdayweld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@tuesdayweld](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tuesdayweld)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/70 "2017-04-13T00:48:59Z")
Exchanging my genitalia for cold, hard mounds of cash just sounds like prostitution. The thought alone makes me feel dirty. It would be the ultimate act of self-betrayal. But count me in. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/71 "2017-04-13T02:07:31Z")
[QUOTE How much for just a set of a breasts though?[/QUOTE] Exactly. If I had breasts, I would never have to leave home. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/72 "2017-04-13T02:21:58Z")
No, thank you. That is an awful lot of money, but I’m perfectly happy with being a man. I suspect the sex change would result in me having more issues than National Geographic and those issues would prevent me from enjoying the money. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/73 "2017-04-13T02:39:57Z")
Mind you I would not turn away a bit more in the bank, more ability to travel maybe, but I have enough that I have most of what I want and don’t want much of what I don’t have. And most of what I want that I don’t have more money wouldn’t buy. There are quite a few people who feel inside that they are one gender but appear on the outside as another. From what I hear it’s a pretty shitty place to have to live and those in that circumstance are often willing to go through quite a lot to change it. Money would not be enough to convince me to put myself in that position by choice. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/74 "2017-04-13T02:47:19Z")
Well the thought of being a lesbian isn’t totally out of the question for me but -------- I’ll pass. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/75 "2017-04-13T02:51:24Z")
No fucking way. I like being a chick, thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/76 "2017-04-13T03:12:05Z")
As a single heterosexual crossdresser, I’ve got mixed opinions about this idea: If it was a 1 to 5 year thing, this would be the ultimate dream come true. Spending five years in evening gowns tailored to my figure is worth not using my penis for a while. Lifetime? No. Not only would never having sex as a man be a deal killer, but being a woman is waaay harder than being a man. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/77 "2017-04-13T03:27:31Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Well the thought of being a lesbian isn’t totally out of the question for me but -------- I’ll pass. But I’m perfectly willing to transition from gay man to straight woman, and still be married to the same man. The biggest challenges would be the wardrobe, hair and makeup. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/78 "2017-04-13T04:02:36Z")
Nope. If I got that much money, I’d likely give 99+% of it away, and then I’m just a dude trapped in a woman’s body right back where I started from financially. I suppose I’d have the satisfaction of knowing I gave it to people and groups I care for. But I wouldn’t want that kind of money hanging around, or even the temptation of keeping it around. Plus it’d just change too many relationships having it in my possession with the power to distribute it. I’m happy being painfully middle class, husband, father, dude. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/79 "2017-04-13T04:07:13Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Nope. If I got that much money, I’d likely give 99+% of it away, and then I’m just a dude trapped in a woman’s body right back where I started from financially. I suppose I’d have the satisfaction of knowing I gave it to people and groups I care for. But I wouldn’t want that kind of money hanging around, or even the temptation of keeping it around. Plus it’d just change too many relationships having it in my possession with the power to distribute it. I’m happy being painfully middle class, husband, father, dude. Yes, but you still wouldn’t have any boobs - or at least not very big ones. For charity work, couldn’t you just let your friends stick their head between them and make motor noises for a good cause? You would probably be the most popular guy(?) around. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333/80 "2017-04-13T04:12:11Z")
Yes, _if_ my husband agreed. And it has to be perfect, painless, and I do get to switch back after one year. I think it would give me fantastic insights into male sexuality, which hopefully I could use to the benefit of my husband. Come to think of it, please throw in another $250mill and make him into a woman for a year. I foresee some good times … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-accept-a-250-mil-jackpot-if-it-came-with-a-mandatory-sex-change/784333.md?page=5)