i wonder what it would be like to be a different gender.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Sex change is a process by which a person or animal changes sex \u2013 that is, by which female sexual characteristics are substituted for male ones, or vice versa. Sex change may occur naturally, as in the case of the sequential hermaphroditism observed in some species. Most commonly, however, the term is used for sex reassignment therapy, including sex reassignment surgery, carried out on humans. It is also sometimes used for the medical procedures applied to intersex people. The term may also be applied to the broader process of changing gender role (\"living as a woman\" instead of living as a man, or vice versa), including but not necessarily limited to medical procedures. Some species exhibit sequential hermaphroditism. In these species, such as many species of coral reef fishes, sex change is a normal anatomical process. Clownfish, wrasses, moray eels, gobies and other fish species are known to change sex, including reproductive functions. A school of clownfish is always built into a hierarchy with a female fish at the top. When she dies, the most dominant male changes sex and takes her place. In the wrasses (the family Labridae), sex change is from female to male, with the largest female of the harem changing into a male and taking over the harem upon the disappearance of the previous dominant male.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Gender reassignment is a process where a person decides to change the gender that they assigned at birth. In other words, female characteristics are substituted for males and vice versa."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I have watched a few shows about gender reassignment. Seems to be a very difficult surgery."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I would think the surgery would be very difficult where body parts are reconstructed and a trans gendered person's physical appearance and function are altered to socially align with the identity they choose."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I know they have to take quite a bit of medication to alter their hormones as well. Where women mimic male hormones and vice versa. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It is a treatment for transgendered people for gender dysphoria in order to help them align with their gender identity."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I can't imagine my own self doing that. No doubt it is very emotionally hard too."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm sure it is very emotional as gender dysphoria is something an individual goes through as a result of the gender they are assigned at birth but one they do not relate to."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, so they probably never actually feel like their gender their entire life. Well, I know that nobody could imagine being able to change genders years ago! Science and medicine has really advanced through the years!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know that many of these individuals go through gender reassignment therapy during transition of one's characteristics to suit their identity. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I can't imagine the very long process. It probably takes years to get where they want to be in regards to their transformation."}]