"Do you want to go back to being Sam?"
"What? But Colonel Hampton said-"
I know what he said," Janet interrupted. "What has been done
is easily changable. Even if you have no facial hair, all you'd
need to do is get a crewcut, change clothes, take out your
earrings, and everyone would assume you are a man. But now you're
at a decision point.
"For what I am going to say now, I do not want an answer.
Promise me you won't say a word to me until tomorrow morning or
later if you need the time. All right?"
Sherry nodded.
"This is the choice: you can go down the impersonation road
with facial surgery and breast implants. It'll fool most of the
people. When you're done, Dr. Trotti can make you look almost the
way you look now. Not quite, but almost.
"The other option is more permanent. Instead of implants,
you'd start hormones. We'll schedule you for voice surgery, your
voice will be higher forever. The facial surgery will be more
extensive. And finally, if you make it that far, you'd go through
sexual reassignment surgery. At that point, you'd be as female as
chemistry, training, and surgery can make you.
"The other option is more permanent. Instead of implants,
you'd start hormones. We'll schedule you for voice surgery, your
voice will be higher forever. The facial surgery will be more
extensive. And finally, if you make it that far, you'd go through
sexual reassignment surgery. At that point, you'd be as female as
chemistry, training, and surgery can make you.