Why does Guy consider changing sex?
In the third episode of the tenth season of The X-Files Mulder and Guy Mann have the following conversation:
MULDER: That's because she used to be... uh, she once... She's transgender.
GUY MANN: (Disbelief) What? You can't transform into a different sex! That's nuts!
MULDER: It's not nuts. It's actually a very common medical procedure. You don't need the surgery, technically...
GUY MANN: (Grabbing at straws) Maybe that's what I could do! It's a cure!
MULDER: No.
GUY MANN: Well, I've got to stop transforming. I'll do the surgery.
MULDER: Completely different.
GUY MANN: (His mind made up) I don't care how much it costs, I'll do it.
MULDER: They cut off (nodding with his head towards GUY MANN's groin area) your genitals.
GUY MANN: (Thinking about it) Nah, I'll leave it. That's... that's a step too far, isn't it?
I understand that this dialogue is there for the comedic effect and that Guy is grabbing at straws, but even so there should be some logic behind it. When he was trying to force Mulder to puncture his appending with a "lance" it was at least loosely based on the legend, while calling changing his sex "a cure" is lacking any sense to me.
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What does changing your sex mean?
Gender transitioning is the process of changing one's gender presentation or sex characteristics to accord with one's internal sense of gender identity \u2013 the idea of what it means to be a man or a woman, or to be non-binary or genderqueer.What is it called when a man gets a sex change?
Transgender Man (Trans Man) These identities can also refer to someone who was surgically assigned female at birth, in the case of intersex people, but whose gender identity is male.Can the sex of a person be changed?
Both patients and their surgeons must be certain it's the right decision. Guidelines recommend people spend 12 months on hormone therapy before they get genital reassignment surgery (GRS). This operation involves recreating a person's genitals to that of the opposite sex. Removal of the gonads may be done as well.What is it called when a girl changes to a guy?
FTM: Female-to-male transgender person. Sometimes identifies as a transgender man. Someone assigned the female gender at birth who identifies on the male spectrum.Why Do Men Change After Sex
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