Nah, I never wished I did. All it is for me is fantasy.

To each their own :)

If I could flip between genders (since I have male and female sibling go taurs)

Would be neat lol

Foxtaurs*

To me, this is what fursuits are for.

I feel that a fursuit just wouldn’t compare to actual flesh and feeling, but if that’s what helps ya I can’t complain ^_^

ABSOLUTELY! ... sort of ...

Many of the characters I've created in my mind are based on something I WISH I could be ... and then elaborated upon and given their own flaws, motivations and twists that make them someone-else, rather than purely who and what 'I' want to be anymore.

I'm currently struggling with what I want to do with a conceptual character named "Bonnie".

On one hand, some interpretations of her are literally who I Wish I could have grown up to be, had I been born Female (or alternatively, who I wish I could transform into if the magical TGTF Fairy were to pay me a visit).

On the other hand, I've already been playing as various versions of her in games with character creators. Each game creates a new context and personality for that version of her, inspiring me to want to start writing and/or drawing stories about her.

But those stories (as I've been imagining them) would be about characters that would do things I'd never do, living in troubled situatiins that make for exciting stories to tell. I wouldn't actually want to live the lives of THOSE characters ... but those characters still are all based upon things I find exciting or desirable.

So ... Yes and No, at the same time.

Quite the response!

Thanks for that!

Alternatively, as for characters I've "Fantasized" about ... in the subject of TG and TF (and given that this is Furaffinity)
... Hmmm ... Female Animal characters I've thought fondly of.

Maid Marian (Disney Vixen), Gadget Hackwrench (Rescue Rangers), Fara Phoenix (StarFox comics), Etc, Etc.

I would never want to take over one of their lives permanently and be them forever. I want to be 'ME'.

... buuuuut ...

In an 'Alternate Reality' sort of experience (presuming I was not messing up someone elses life by doing so), I think it would be fascinating to live "A Day in the Life of" a lovely lady like that. To LOOK like her. FEEL like her. Be SEEN as and TREATED as her, and be expected to Speak and Behave as her ... just for a day.

That could be ... Fascinating ...

... Lastly ... Does it make me Sad or Depressed that it is not, even a little bit, even remotely possible to ever experience real-life metamorphosis, like that which I fantasize about and desire?

Transformation has been my greatest, greatest, GREATEST Fantasy since as far back as I can remember, forever and ever.

... and as someone whom struggles with IRL Gender Dysphoria ...

... You don't want me to really go there. Sadness and Depression can be a Deep, Deep, DEEP, Dark Hole.

...

I don't know what to answer - I would like to experience some change like that, but, well, it's the change that I wish to experience, not the aftermath. Being able to change forms once in a while would be really cool.