River Godfried and Sam Tomkins both suffer from gender dysphoria. Put simply, it's the overwhelming sensation that your mind is in the wrong body -- a body of the wrong sex. Even after coming out, the process of doing anything about it is long and laborious. Our two central characters are still in the early stages of therapy, with months to go before hormones and years before surgery that probably still won't be enough for them to pass.

What if there were a shortcut, one with more complete and dramatic results? That's the life's work of Dr. Thaddius Zeit, whose research is heavily funded by Godfried. Together, they have an audacious but tempting offer to make to Sam

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