"Title Sequence"

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+Title: Title Sequence
+Date: 2017-01-08 17:13
+Category: fiction
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+"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.
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+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:
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+"_The man with the nonstandard hormone balance!_"