A Stitch in Time Saves Nine

In addition, transsexual sex changes result in fully functioning reproductive systems, making pregnancy and childbearing possible for male-to-shemale members of society and fatherhood a potential reality for not only males but hemales as well. For the first time in human history, ladyboys like Frankie have the option of becoming mothers.

We don't need to resort to surgery to accomplish our hearts' desires, but we also usually forego such procedures because we are bound by law from reversing any such transformations that result from surgical operations.

Indeed this prohibition is the reason that we succeeded, when we turned up at the Council's mandatory interview, to argue our case for a nine-year extension of our respective licenses to live, while so many other petitioners failed in their attempts to be granted this same privilege.

A third extension is almost unheard of, so extreme is the planet's overpopulation crisis. Despite the legalization of homosexuality, abortion, euthanasia, and, in some cases, even homicide, there are still too many people on the planet, and it is rare, indeed, that anyone is granted three extensions of his or her license to live.

When Frankie showed the Council members her vagina, though, they agreed that the desperate measure she'd taken (and to which, as her Significant Other, I had agreed) warranted such an extension. The procedure is known, among medical practitioners, as infibulation. Essentially, it involves a permanent suturing shut of the labia, so that sexual penetration is impossible, although urination is still allowed. Since they were installed by surgeons, the steel fibers that the doctors used to sew shut Frankie's smooth-shaved pussy lips cannot be removed; they must remain in place until death do they part, making penile-vaginal intercourse with Frankie impossible, even if I should develop an interest in such sex, in lieu of anal intercourse. It is impossible for us to become parents, even through an adulterous union, unless we ourselves should be willing to risk death, for adultery is a capitol offense, and the execution of the death sentence is swift and certain.