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The Cycler Series
The Cyler Series: What would you do if you woke up one day as a member of the opposite sex? For Jill McTeague, this is no hypothetical question. It’s real life!
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I’d be awfully surprised, but I’d ask them what pronouns to use during that time of the month, and then life would go back to normal. I’m also thinking about a friend of mine who was born intersex, and has lived as male and as female, both during adulthood, and I’m wondering to myself: “Would they notice a change? What exactly would it mean for them to be the ‘opposite’ sex?”
I think, initially, I’d be a little freaked out. But once that wore off, I’d be very curious and proably ask lots of questions, such as what it feels like and how it started. I don’t think it would make me love them any less, becaue, male or female doesn’t matter… it’s the person you fall in love with.
I would check and see what they were comfortable with. Are they at peace in their skin 4 days a month? Would they want my company? If so, I think we’d take it slow. Spend time together, and take it from there. If they wanted to maintain a physical and sexual relationship during that time, I would test my comfort level, although I think it would be a possibility. Basically, it hinges on whether they were comfortable in that skin, and whether those 4 days a month, they still wanted to feel like they were in a relationship with me. If so, then that’s how it would be. I would hope.
I would be startled that they’d never mentioned it before, and that they’d managed to conceal the fact through 2 pregnancies. I would know that it was incredibly difficult for them to share this fact, and be honoured that they finally did.
I would guess they were worried that I might be bi-curious.
or: “duuuuuuuuuuuude.”
Pray that those 4 days fall on a days when (s)he’s not PMS-ing!
Ever since I’ve read Cycler I’ve pondered that question and I suppose I would at first be a little apprehensive; but isn’t this a true test of what love really is about? Loving a person for who they are and the ability to find a connection with a person that transcends gender? I mean a greater question is how would my significant other react to being a member of the opposite sex, would it be a Jack and Jill situation and one side be unaware of the others actions and the other have access to the others memories? Because if that was the case I imagine I would have to be tolerant of that other persona depending on how different it was from my significant other. If they just changed physically I think it would be an interesting experience, let them see how the other half live and interact differently in certain situations. After reading what I just wrote I see myself finding it so intriguing in a social sense as well as psychological sense, but I mean my main concern would being there for them, trying to be there for them and accepting them for who they are.