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// Marecrates Says Trans Rights 
// Story: The Dialogues of Marecrates 
// by Mint Essence 
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“Marecrates, have you heard? There is a great commotion in the city over a mad stallion who claims to be a mare. He dresses as a mare does, and tries to act the part as would a skilled actor in the theatre.” Celestia exclaimed, approaching the older mare.

“And what exactly would you call a mare, Celestia?” Marecrates asked.

“I do not follow. What could you possibly mean by this? Surely a mare is every bit a mare as a dog is a dog, how could you go by any other meaning?” Celestia asked back.

“Indeed, I must admit that I myself am only now consuming the problem, as I have never heard of another so mad as to genuinely think himself to be the opposite sex. But maybe by the end of our inquiry we shall not find him to be as mad as we once thought.” Marecrates replied.

“It is possible.” Celestia simply said.

“Well then, first, does this young lady as she calls herself believe that she actually has a physical form other than that given to her?” Marecrates asked.

“I do not believe so, for I did hear others crudely ask or rather joke about this person’s penis, and they did not deny to having one, despite being so adamant that they are a mare.” Celestia replied.

“How interesting. So by mare they must mean something other than purely the physical form.” Marecrates mused.

“Tell me this, Celestia, if I were to take your mind and implant it into the body of a stallion would you rather be thought of as a stallion or a mare?” Socrates asked.

“Surely a mare. I find it hard to even imagine myself as anything but such.” Celestia explained.

“But would you not have the body of a stallion?” Marecrates asked.

“According to your analogy I would.” Celestia agreed.

“But how can you call yourself mare, if you inhabit the body of a stallion?” Marecrates continued.

“Getting back to my example of a dog, would you consider me to be so if my spirit somehow got mixed up in one? For I believe that your answer will agree with mine.” Celestia asked.

“I think the answer to be very obvious in that case, I would consider you to be a dog in body, and a mare in spirit, you would be partly both.” Marecrates explained.

“In that case how should men refer to me? As a dog, a mare, or a dog-mare?” Celestia asked.

“As a mare, for they would be talking to your spirit, not your flesh. Surely it makes more sense to regard you as such in everyday transactions, for as far as our example has yet gone your character has not changed.” Marecrates explained

“And if I was to be a mare as I am now trapped inside a stallion’s body it would be no different?” Celestia asked.

“I do not see why it would be.” Marecrates responded.

“Do you suppose this person then to be a stallion trapped in a mare’s body.” Celestia asked again.

“I can not know for sure, but if their character is and always has been as it is now then I don’t think it all together mad to consider that person at least in part a mare.” Marecrates explained.

“Are you saying that their character in being a mare is as immutable as their having been born into a male body, that they were born with such a character?” Celestia asked.

“No, for your character is not quite as constant as your body. One you are born with and grows in a certain definite way, the other while greatly influenced by your birth is equally determined by your upbringing.” Marecrates explained.

“Then if a stallion were to have the character that we would ascribe to a mare in how he felt and perceived the world, in a way he would be a mare?” Celestia asked.

“Yes, while their body must always be that of a stallion, their character, spirit, soul, however you would put it is surely that of a mare.” Marecrates replied.

“Even if their body had not been swapped around with the other sex? Could someone be like this by nature?” Celestia asked.

“If they can have the character of the opposite sex I do not see why it should matter if they actually switched bodies by some supernatural event, or simply developed in this way. They would very simply have the body of one and the character of another.” Marecrates explained.

“Consider it like this. What would you say of a stallion who was raised as a filly from birth, and in every respect acted as and was treated as a mare, to the point that for their choice of attire and mannerisms they seem no different than any other mare. Would it be wholly ridiculous to call such a person a mare, even though they were born as a stallion?” Marecrates asked.

“No, I shall say that while they were born as a stallion and shall forever inhabit the body of a stallion, if they acted in every respect as a mare does, and saw the world and themselves as a mare their character would truly be that of a mare. They would, and I feel like we are repeating ourselves here, but it is worth covering once more, be a man in so much as they have a penis, but in every other way they would be as their character or spirit was.”