"My birth name was Gina," explained Jon. "But I had this idea that I wanted to be a boy, the same way you might want to be a doctor or an astronaut. I hardly remember it, I hadn't even started first grade, but one day I told my grandfather that I was going to grow up to be a boy. He snapped his fingers and told me that I would. I believed him without question, you do that when you're that young. But there were rumors he had special powers, and he must have shown those powers to Mom and Dad, because from then on Mom and Dad agreed that I was a boy and my name was now Jon."
"And you did grow up as a boy. So you are one," said Karyn.
"I don't even remember being a girl, really."
"Or maybe you are a girl after all," said Karyn. "I don't want to think of you as one, but you have a vagina. You have periods. You want to be 'filled'. Have you ever... been filled?"
"Only with a dildo," explained Jon. "I've gotten, well, some offers. There are people who know, you can't hide it in the locker room forever. Joseph asked me once."
"What did you say?"
"I told him that I'm a guy and having sex like a girl would make it hard for either of us to feel like I'm just one of the guys. He didn't press the issue, and a week later he gave me the dildo. I'm still not sure where he got it from. It's not all that easy for a teenager to get a dildo, you know."
