content/2017/interlude-vii.md

   1 Title: Interlude VII
   2 Date: 2017-08-25 14:50
   3 Category: fiction
   4 Tags: interlude
   5
   6 "The gender ratio at the conference was like, maybe twenty-to-one?" he said. "And I can't help but think, if I were braver—like you—I could help make the male-to-female ratio better—but only at the expense of making the trans-women-to-cis-women ratio worse."
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   8 "You mean, making the trans-women-to-cis-women ratio _higher_."
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  10 A beat.
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  12 "But go on," she added.
  13
  14 "No, of course, you're right."