"Wait a minute," said Jon, "I what?"
"Your sex hormones were converted to their opposites, so you changed into a girl. I told you."
"That's what I thought you said," replied Jon. "Look, I wasn't the best student in biology class, but even I know that hormones only control how you grow. The only way having female hormones could make me anything like a girl is if I had female hormones as a kid, before I started growing up, and even then, I'd still have certain male parts."
"Did I say that the disease changed you into a girl?" asked the doctor.
"You implied it. Besides, the name of the disease sounds like it."
"The disease only makes you partly change," said the doctor. "As you've guessed, just changing your hormones would only change or grow a couple of things that can still change--you'd start to get breasts and lose your whiskers, but you wouldn't turn completely female. And it wouldn't happen overnight."
"So what changed me?" asked Jon.
"The cure."
"The cure?"
"Yes," replied the doctor. "It would be bad if you were a guy with big breasts, a soft face, and a higher voice. But if you're a girl, you're normal. So the cure for having female hormones is to turn you completely into a girl, where the female hormones would be natural, and do to yor body what's supposed to happen anyway. It's a really amazing piece of technology. In fact I don't really understand it myself. You just go through the machine and come out changed."
