6 "Mark, did you _really_ need to bring me here for this?" whispered Caleb.
8 "_Yes!_ No one can do the Don LaFontaine voice like you! I said I owe you a favor!"
12 [description of other people checking in and giving their identities/pronouns http://www.pdxqcenter.org/gender-queery/ ]
14 "Ever since puberty, he had dreamed of being more like the women he loved and admired. In a world teeming with the wonders of modern science, _fantasy_ becomes _reality_ ..."
16 Mark stood up. "My name is M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake, my pronouns are _he_/_him_, and I am—" He lifted up the side of his shirt a few inches to reveal the estradiol patch.
18 "_The man with the nonstandard hormone balance!_"