X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2017%2Ftitle-sequence.md;fp=content%2F2017%2Ftitle-sequence.md;h=e4ee03b1e9e83862f10b0f8b59d041d3006013c8;hb=af5bbf718fc09e875da3e3a36c3c85edd05a9723;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=52527415990d23ab61d5099d814e4f19cbbd68bb;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/2017/title-sequence.md b/content/2017/title-sequence.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e4ee03b --- /dev/null +++ b/content/2017/title-sequence.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Title: Title Sequence +Date: 2017-01-08 17:13 +Category: fiction + +"Mark, did you _really_ need to bring me here for this?" whispered Caleb. + +"_Yes!_ No one can do the Don LaFontaine voice like you! I said I owe you a favor!" + +"Alright." + +It was time for the Gender Queery discussion group at the Q Center to begin. The facilitator read the rules (keep confidentiality, respect people's identities, use "I" statements, _&c._), and people began to introduce themselves. A man calling himself Augustina said that he identified as a nonbinary transfeminine demigirl and that his pronouns were _she_ or _they_. A woman named Laura said that she identified as fluidflux and that she took _they_/_them_ pronouns. + +When the circle got around to Mark, he kept silent as Caleb began to narrate: "Ever since puberty, he had fantasized about being more like the women he loved and admired. In a world teeming with the wonders of modern science, _fantasy_ becomes _reality_ ..." + +Mark stood up and said proudly, "My name is M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake, my pronouns are _he_/_him_, and as of last week, I am—" he lifted up the side of his shirt a few inches to reveal the estradiol patch, as Caleb finished: + +"_The man with the nonstandard hormone balance!_"