State Change: Science Fiction

[penthius]

It could be disconcerting having a roommate who changed gender state a dozen times in the time it took him/her to walk home from his/her office, and of course the subtle other changes that went along with attraction to a particular phenotype meant he never really looked the same from day to day, or even--on particularly high-hormone days--hour to hour. Sie didn't mind. As far as sie talked about hir condition, sie said it was just fun, and that sie enjoyed feeling the surges and changes in hir body in response to other people sie found attractive. Some people might hate it and hide in their apartment, working remotely and refusing to watch television for fear that it might trigger a change, but not sie. A good movie marathon could have a different person sitting on the couch each time the lights came up for break, and that was the way sie liked it--


Inspiration: "Fidelity" - Regina Spektor -> Googling "loved nobody fully" -> "Common Myths of Bisexuality"
Story potential: Medium
Notes: I like the idea of physiological changes in response to attraction and what that would mean to somebody who was attracted to *lots* of people, but it's a one-trick pony story and I don't think it's saying anything particularly new and interesting. Also, pronouns.

Comments

[penthius.livejournal.com]

I was thinking all up for grabs--genders, genitalia, phenotype, etc. Different people would change to different degrees, of course. There's conceivably a "scientific" argument for it being possible, given the animal species that flip gender depending on external inputs.