-_I need the correct answer in order to decide whether or not to cut my dick off_. As I've said, I _currently_ believe that cutting my dick off would be a _bad_ idea. But that's cost–benefit judgement call based on many _contingent, empirical_ beliefs about the world. I'm obviously in the general _reference class_ of males who are getting their dicks cut off these days, and a lot of them seem to be pretty happy about it! I would be much more likely to go through with transitioning if I believed different things about the world—if I thought my beautiful pure sacred self-identity thing were an intersex condition, if I still believed in my teenage psychological sex differences denialism (such that there would be _axiomatically_ no worries about fitting with "other" women after transitioning), if I were more optimistic about the degree to which HRT and surgeries approximate an actual sex change, _&c._
+_I need the correct answer in order to decide whether or not to cut my dick off_. As I've said, I _currently_ believe that cutting my dick off would be a _bad_ idea. But that's cost–benefit judgement call based on many _contingent, empirical_ beliefs about the world. I'm obviously in the general _reference class_ of males who are getting their dicks cut off these days, and a lot of them seem to be pretty happy about it! I would be much more likely to go through with transitioning if I believed different things about the world—if I thought my beautiful pure sacred self-identity thing were an intersex condition, if I still believed in my teenage psychological sex differences denialism (such that there would be _axiomatically_ no worries about fitting with "other" women after transitioning), if I were more optimistic about the degree to which HRT and surgeries approximate an actual sex change.