The Greatest Lie, Chapter 11 - A Whole New Me, The Same Old World
? by: Alexandra Rios
"En Francais", they say "plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose:" the
more things change, the more they stay the same. When Tran and I got
back to Minneapolis from our trip to Thailand for our sex change
operations, it was every bit as dark, frigid and depressing as it had
been when we left. I returned to the same tiny, dreary apartment in a
drug infested, sleazy stretch of Hennepin where the rents, and life
were both cheap. It hadn't changed, but only felt worse after our
balmy, thrilling, and successful trip to my home town, 'LaLa Land', and
the 'Land of Smiles'.
The shock of returning from balmy Thailand to the dark and cold of
Minneapolis so shocked weakened body that I considered blowing off
school entirely. But that would have been stupid, since I have a full
scholarship and I had greased the rails for a really easy semester. I
had it so easy that even if I weren't an academic genius, it would have
been difficult to screw up. But it was so cold, and I was so weak, I
couldn't stand going outside. So I just skipped another week of classes
instead.
Tran had given up her place and moved in with me. I love her like a
sister (okay, even more than that), and after all we had been through
couldn't think of living without her. But after three consecutive days
of being house bound by below-zero weather, and eating only delivered
food, I was going crazy.
"Tran, I have keep at this homework. Can't you please go out and get us
some real food: broccoli and brown rice or something. We can't live on
kung pao and pizza indefinitely. That's hard enough on anyone's colon,
not to mention ours," which had been sectioned to lengthen our neo-
vaginas.
"You go, I don't want to freeze my boobs off."
"Tran, they're saline. Like the ocean. They won't freeze."
"I can't go. I'm Vietnamese. We don't like the cold."
"Tran, you grew up a hundred miles from here. You must be used to it by
now."
"I got used to being warm. I think I'm going back to LA, make more
pornos with Pavel."
That, I had to admit, did sound attractive. I had had good reasons for
leaving LA, but they were less compelling than ever, as the frosty
windows rattled with another blast of arctic wind.
Tran brightened. "Maybe we should call somebody. Tell them we are
starving, and get them to bring us food."
"Who do you have in mind?"
Tran threw out a few suggestions: my law school friend, Mark, my
advisor, Professor Finch, our hockey star boyfriend, Rick and Randy.
Since Tran and I had left for Winter break, we had shared a fantasy
about the delirious welcome they would have prepared for us on our
return: flowers, gifts, lingerie, and passionate kisses and embraces.
Now, even though we had been back for three whole days, we hadn't
even heard from them. We were wondering if they had forgotten us.
"Do you think we should call them?" Tran asked.
"We can't. They'll totally get the wrong idea, that we're, like
desperate or something."
"You're right," she said unhappily. She was reclining on a triangle
pillow, her thighs parted, preparing to dilate her neo-vagina with a
one-inch stent. She covered it in KY Jelly, then grimaced as she
penetrated herself. "You know you should be doing this too," she
reminded me through clenched teeth.
"It's- so o- o-o, hard, O-o-o," she groaned, as the nylon stent stopped
less than half way in. "It's stuck again, ouch. God, what's going to
happen if I get a cock stuck in there?"
"It'll be the happiest day of your life," I joked.
"No way, who would want the same old cock all of the time!" Tran
replied mischievously.
I took a break from my translation of the Knights Tale to hip hop
lyrics, and took my place on the floor next to Tran, a xeroxed law case
in one hand, and my own stent in the other. We had started dilating
a few days earlier, with the narrowest, one-inch stents. It was gonna
be a hard row to hoe. Our penile skin had been too skimpy to fashion an
adequately deep vagina, and so our Thai surgeon, Dr. Sanguan, had
lengthened it with a section of colon that he had sutured to the end of
the inverted penile skin. He had used grafts of scrotal skin to form
labia and the glans of the penis to form a clit.
Now that the sutures had dissolved, and the scars and bruises were
fading, we could see he had performed miraculous work. We had lovely,
though tiny, female genitalia, where our cockettes had been. But these
delicious, tempting treats were forbidden for at least two months, and
even longer, until we had successfully dilated with the massive 1 1/2
inch stents. These forbidding tools lay unused, until we had
successfully mastered their one inch and 1 1/4 inch mates. And the one
incher had me stymied. I could not force it past the juncture where the
penile and colon tissues were joined. I removed it, re-lubricated it,
and re-entered.
"Just keep it moving, Tran," I advised. "Just like you know what."
Tran giggled. "Just think what Rick and Randy would do if they saw
playing with ourselves like this."
"I think I know what they would do, and we're not ready for it."
"Sh-sh, I'm going to close my eyes and imagine it's Randy," I heard
Tran begin to breath harder and moan sensually. "It's not working, it's
not helping. I've had enough!" She pulled out her stent and threw it
across the room in disgust.
She got up and dialed a phone number impatiently. "You're not calling
them," I implored.
"No, I'm not. Yeah, hello, beef and broccoli, extra broccoli, please,
no beef, and brown rice. Yeah, for Tran again, on 1385 Hennepin, Unit
22. Yeah, call from security. Make sure it's hot. And bring chopsticks.
Bye. OK, Alexandra, I got your broccoli. Call me when it arrives. I'm
taking a bath."
I continued with my dilation, and my reading for another half-hour,
until the phone rang. "Tran, I'm running down to get dinner," I yelled.
I had made little progress on the dilation or the case. A chill of cold
and fear shook me as I entered the stairwell: had I gotten in over my
head with this operation? And what was I supposed to be getting out of
these Court decisions? When I returned, greasy bags of Chinese in hand,
I phoned my mentor, Mark Whitman.
"Alex, it's good to hear your voice. You're back? I didn't see you
first day. Not that it mattered"
"My trip got kind of messy at the end. But everything is fine now."
"Don't worry, because Epstein didn't show either. He's on another
honeymoon."
"I didn't know he was getting married."
"He didn't."
"M-m-m."
"Don't even think about it, Alex."
"All I'm thinking about are these law cases. I mean, what am I supposed
to be getting out of them? I mean, am I supposed to be memorizing them
or something? They're so long and boring, and there are so many." I was
panicking.
"I always forget that you're a baby. Here's what you do. You read the
facts really fast, then get to the holding, which is what the court
decides. Then you figure out what the facts and law they used to get to
the holding: that's the rationale. Then you figure out what's wrong
with rationale, like which important facts they left out or what law
they ignored. Then compare the holding to the earlier cases and figure
out how they fudged the outcome: that's what's wrong with the holding.
Then go onto the next case, do the same thing, and figure out what this
bunch did different than the last. That's it: law school in a
nutshell. Epstein loves to hear what's wrong with judges. He thinks
they're all idiots."
"So you're really not learning anything from the cases."
"Well, actually, you have to memorize all of the holdings for the
final. But what you are really trying to learn is how to show all other
lawyers and judges (except you, Epstein and me) are a bunch of idiots.
You're learning how to criticize others."
"Oh, I can get into that."
"Wait'll you read the assignment for this week. You'll find something
to hate in the Gardiner case. We're meeting at Epstein's house next
Saturday. See ya then."
The siege of unspeakable weather gave me an excuse to ditch classes for
another week, and regain my strength. When the below zero days finally
ended in a glorious January thaw, the students had tee-shirted snowball
fights in the quads, and I emerged to go to my first classes. As I
strode, tight-sweatered an open-jacketed across campus to catch the bus
to the suburbs, I realized that my new profile was really attracting
appreciative looks and smiles from nearly every guy who saw me. As I
ran to catch the departing bus, boobs bouncing painfully, a stranger
interceded, yelling to the driver to stop, and held the door for me
gallantly as I boarded. I rewarded him with a, "Thank you," and a
demure smile, and got a 'Wish I were going your way', from the handsome
stranger. Another guy offered me his seat, and then chatted me up the
rest of the ride. God, this is great, I thought. Every guy who saw me,
noticed me, feasted his eyes, and then wanted to please me. Life is
going to be a party.
Avoiding the foul weather to which Tran and I had returned, Epstein had
stayed late in Acapulco, and had assigned a thousand pages of legal
cases: we would have a triple session at his house in Edina to make up
the lost class time. His girlfriend, Lynn, was a third year student,
participated as a student. What a class! It was an upper level seminar,
so everyone wanted to be there and had an opinion. Let me tell you,
Minnesota, hell, America, is a pretty weird place, if you grew up in
West LA. I mean, it was a strange brew.
On one had, you'd find hipsters from Madison, Ann Arbor, even Berkeley;
on the other hand, you found the bright but na?ve hicks: strict
Lutherans from Duluth or wherever that had been brought up to believe
dancing to be sinful and that gays had been sent by the devil to
pervert the innocent. I mean, in LA, you'd have to go to West Covina or
someplace to find such rustics. And there we were, in Epstein's
breakfast room, me and Lars from Fargo, head to head on the Kansas
Supreme Court's decision In the Matter of The Estate of Marshall G.
Gardiner.
I had been up half the night, reading, and then having nightmares about
the case. J'Noel, a forty year old post op had made good, become a
professor, and then married Marshall, an eighty-something millionaire:
like Anna Nicole Smith, but trans. Good 'ole Marsh had promptly left us
for that great board of directors in the sky, leaving behind no will.
His son wanted the money, and went after J'Noelle. Epstein turned to
me. "Ms. Rivers, please state the facts and holding of the Gardiner
case."
I smiled, pleased that he had remembered to use my new name, and stated
the case:
"The case involves J'Noel Gardiner's claim to the estate of Marshall G.
Gardiner. J'Noel was born male, had sex reassignment surgery and had
an amended Wisconsin birth certificate showing her gender as 'assigned
female'. Marshall, an elderly widower, was a donor to the college where
J'Noel was a professor. He fell in love and married her with knowledge
of her past. Gardiner died without leaving a will the following summer.
Gardiner's estranged son sought to claim the entire estate, arguing
that the marriage was invalid. Kansas had passed a version of the
Defense of Marriage Act, by which the state forbids recognition of
same-sex marriages. Joe argued that as a matter of law J'Noel, as a
genetic male, was incapable of legally marrying his late father. The
trial court agreed with Joe, ruling that under Kansas law, anyone
born male remains male, and ignored the Wisconsin birth certificate.
The Kansas court of appeals reversed, finding that the district court
had improperly determined as a matter of law that J'Noel remained a
man. The lower court needed to conduct a trial about whether J'Noel was
male or female, based on the scientific and medical factors relevant to
determination of gender.
The Kansas Supreme Court reversed the appellate court. Even though the
terms 'sex', 'male' and 'female' were not defined in the Kansas
'protection of marriage' statute, the held that J'Noel's sex was
male, based on definitions taken from an old edition of Webster's
Dictionary, which looked to genetic and biological factors only.
I read the holding:
"'A male-to-female post-operative transsexual does not fit the
definition of a female. The male organs have been removed, but the
ability to 'produce ova and bear offspring' does not and never did
exist. There is no womb, cervix, or ovaries, nor is there any change in
his chromosomes.
As Texas supreme court had held in the earlier Littleton case, the
transsexual still 'inhabits... a male body in all aspects other than
what the physicians have supplied.' J'Noel does not fit the common
meaning of female. If the legislature intended to include transsexuals,
it could have been a simple matter to have done so."
I concluded "So the Court held the marriage was invalid and awarded the
entire estate to Joe, and nothing to J'Noel."
Epstein asked, "Ms. Rivers, do you see anything wrong in the reasoning
of the Kansas Supreme Court?"
"It's a terrible decision by a weak and lazy judges, or maybe they are
pretending to be ignorant and are really biased. Why should they assume
that the Kansas legislature had in mind an outdated dictionary
definition of sex, male and female? Given the attention paid to
transsexuals in the media, why not assume that the Kansas Legislature
was aware of transsexuals and intended that the courts categorize them
based on gender identity rather than genes, particularly where
Wisconsin had officially recognized the sex change? These judges were
relying on their own limitations and preconceptions, where they
admitted they had no evidence of legislative intent. I think it's a
terrible decision."
Peter Swenson, a Young Republican type, replied hotly "Aren't you doing
just what you are accusing the court of? Where there is no contrary
intent, shouldn't we let the plain meaning of the statute speak for
itself. Last time I looked, this was still a republic, where elected
legislators make the laws, not the judges."
Epstein took my part, and responded "So what they are saying is that
the Kansas legislature must have ignored all of the science and
publicity about transsexuals in defining gender. Of course they knew
about transsexuals. The statue is an abomination, but it was only
aimed at prohibiting gay marriage. Why interpret such a statute
broadly? I think Rivers has a point. Should one infer a deprivation of
rights based on silence?"
Alec Olsen, another Heritage Foundation type, interjected, "Why should
we assume Kansas legislators were ill informed. Why not assume the
obvious, that they were relying on common understandings of these
terms. After all, they were enacting the 'Preservation of Marriage
Act', not the 'Protection of Transvestites Act'."
Mark Whitman replied, "Point taken, but no one anticipates that
Legislatures are enacting laws to fit eternity. Isn't the role of
Courts to interpret?"
I added "Science, medicine, and society change far faster than
Legislatures can enact laws. When this 'Protection of Marriage Act' was
enacted, eight, nine years ago, look what's happened in that time."
Alec rejoined, "Yeah, I'm looking. What difference does that make?
That there are more unwed mothers, gay couples having kids? Are courts
supposed to reshape laws to fit fads, and facilitate social extremism?
If Marshall had had a young child, are you going to give J'Noel
custody? Are we seriously considering honoring transsexuals on Mothers
Day?"
I exploded: "OK, you won't let J'Noel be a mother. You won't let her
sue for her husband's death or inherit from him. You say she's still a
male. Will you let her be a Scout Master?"
Alec sneered "No, but that's because society has an interest in
protecting children from exposure to aberrant behavior."
Epstein replied "OK, she can't be a Girl Scout or a Boy Scout. Fine: if
she can't marry a male and adopt his child, can she marry a female, and
adopt a woman's child?"
Alec answered, "Same issue. If the law gives the privilege of marriage
to males and females, then no, she can't marry either a woman or a man,
because she has the outward appearance of a woman in the chromosomes of
a man. And she can't adopt as a matter of child protection."
I countered "I don't get it. A transsexual can't marry a male and can't
marry a female. Who are they supposed to marry, another transsexual
coming from the opposite direction? What if that person has a kid?"
Peter interrupted, "Absolutely not. They can't marry at all, under
Kansas law."
Mark said, "You've got to be kidding me, what about Equal Protection."
Peter responded, "It doesn't apply to protect a transsexuals."
Epstein was apoplectic, "It protects everyone: even non-citizens. Are
you saying J'Noel has no Equal Protection rights at all. That we can
deprive her of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?"
Alec retorted, "No, but we can restrict her from exercising privileges
that are specific to gender. At this point, she doesn't have a gender
in the eyes of the law."
Epstein said "Reminds of that story, 'Man Without a Country.' 'Woman
without a Gender': pretty barbaric for Twenty-First Century
jurisprudence. Is that where we're going? To paraphrase my favorite
movie, 'Toto, I think we must be in Kansas.'"
Mark rejoined "It's ridiculous and cruel to deny J'Noel any legal
rights dependent on gender. Gender is her precious possession. Even the
Kansas Court acknowledged her sacrifices. Can they really mean that in
claiming her gender, she relinquished it?"
Peter retorted, "But the Court said it was up to the Kansas
Legislature, not the Courts applying the Equal Protection, to defend
her. And it hasn't, and shouldn't."
I argued "But you're argument goes far beyond that. You think that she
shouldn't have a protected right to claim her gender. Why not?"
Alec answered, "Because Equal Protection prevents discrimination based
on attributes that the individual can't change. J'Noel chose to change
her body and sexual identity. Therefore, she doesn't deserve to be
protected."
Epstein summarized, "So you can deny J'Noel all Equal Protection right:
the right to work, to vote, to petition the government?"
Peter polished his glasses. "I don't propose to suspend all rights, I
suppose, but certainly the privilege to assert legal entitlement where
gender is an issue."
I dissected this position. "You believe the state can deny her the
rights to assert, as a male or as a female, any legal right that's
dependent on gender?"
Peter responded, "Yes, because J'Noel really possesses neither the
gender of a male or a female."
Epstein posited. "So you are saying that transsexuals are neither
legally male nor female, that they belong, if you will, to a third
gender?"
"I'm not a social scientist, but I guess you could say that."
Epstein continued "And obviously, this minority is a tiny
minority?"
Peter admitted, "Yes, I guess so."
Epstein pounced: "But we reserve the greatest degree of Equal
Protection scrutiny for small, unpopular minorities. How can we tell
transsexuals that their recourse is in the legislature, not the Courts?
I doubt the transsexual lobby throws a lot of weight in the Kansas
Legislature"
Peter backpedaled "People like J'Noel are different from other
minorities."
Mark pursued "Because they are sexual minorities, and we have
special rules for sex? Sounds pretty Victorian to be a basis for
Constitutional Law."
Alec attempted to lead an escape: "No, because they choose to be
what they become. We protect only those who have immutable
characteristics. J'Noel is different because she voluntarily undertook
to become what she became."
I sprung the trap: "You assert that she volunteered to be transsexual?"
"No, but she chose to take the hormones, have the tracheal shave, and
to have the other surgery."
I went on, "So you are saying these procedures should be punished,
even where they are medically recommended."
Alec asserted, "No, but when J'Noel had them, she forfeited the
rights to full citizenship, either as a male, or as a female."
Epstein questioned, "And what compelling state interest compels
such an extraordinary deprivation?"
Peter argued "Doing otherwise brings chaos to society, the family, to
the expectation of normality. We must, I suppose, tolerate everyone,
even the criminally insane, but we don't have to accord them full
status as citizens. J'Noel, like a schizophrenic, is simply too
destructive of the social order to be given free rein. The state must
be empowered to limit her freedom to protect the rest of us."
Epstein pronounced "Gender apartheid, for a tiny and powerless
minority?"
Alec begged off "Unless the legislature decides otherwise."
Epstein questioned, "That does appear to be what Texas and Kansas
have decided. Is it right? Is there a role for the Federal Court here?"
Epstein's eyes scanned the classroom, meeting mine only for the same
moment as the others.
I had the last word. "Absolutely, you cannot deny equal protection
based one's outward aspect, as long as it reflects and immutable
internal trait." Half the group nodded in agreement, the others
vehemently disagreed.
Epstein concluded, "Fascinating. I think we mined all of the ore
out of that vein. Next case, Olsen."
We worked through a dozen cases that way, working until lunch. Then we
broke, and Epstein invited us to stay for sandwiches. I grabbed
Whitman. "I can't believe Epstein did that to me. Was he trying to
'out' me?"
"No, that's what Epstein does! He puts you under the microscope and
lets the rest of the class dissect you. Welcome to law school, little
sister. But you were sensational. You made those two look like a couple
of idiots. And they're third year. Don't say anything. Here they come."
Alec smiled and said "No hard feelings, OK?"
"None here," I responded with a smile and a flutter of my lashes.
"Comes with the territory, doesn't it?"
"Wow, you were really great. How did you learn so much law?" Alec
asked.
"I'm a quick study."
"But you're new, aren't you."
"Actually, I'm an undergrad. A Freshman."
"No wonder you're still a liberal. Get a little closer to real life,
and things start looking different, unless you become a weirdoes'
rights type like Whitman here. How did you end up in this circus?"
Peter nodded toward Epstein.
"I wrote something for one of what you called Mark's weirdoes' rights
projects, and Epstein liked it. So he invited me."
"We won't hold that against you. Will we, Alec?"
"No way. Where do you live? Are you in a sorority?" Alec inquired.
As we talked, I noticed that each time I switched eye contact to one,
the other transferred his gaze to my breasts. Should I be flattered, or
worried? Was I too big, or not natural? "No, I'm way too busy for all
the socializing. I'm all work and no play. In fact, I have to do some
work-study tutoring in a few minutes."
"Underprivileged, undernourished urban youth?" Peter asked
sarcastically.
"No, over-privileged, oversexed hockey players." I tossed my hair
carelessly.
"Can you get tickets?" Alec demanded.
"I've never had the occasion to ask," I purred demurely.
"Cool, good to meet you. Ask for four tickets for Wisconsin," Alec
replied with a breezy wave.
"And bring a friend," he added arrogantly.
"Oh, shurr!" I replied, adding a Fargo-ese umlaut to my vowels.
"See you next week," Peter chirped.
When they were out of hearing, I whispered to Mark "Do you think they
have any ideas, you know, about me?"
"I think they've got lots of ideas about you. But I don't think they
related you to the Gardiner case, if that's what you mean."
"What do you mean?"
"Just the usual ideas guys have about fantastically beautiful girls."
I blushed. "Do you mean me? Do you like the new me better than the
old?"
"It's the same you, the same me and though you're ever more beautiful,
and I'm just as square. How's Tran, er, Teri?"
"She's great, you know, we're both, ah recovering still."
"Ahem, and how's that going?"
"Want to see for yourself?"
"No, ah, not really." He was blushing.
"Sorry, I know, I was only kidding." I looked at my watch. "Gotta go.
So I did all right?"
"Better than that. You were born to be a lawyer."
I walked off smiling inwardly musing, "Born to be lawyer, or a hooker?"
God, this life kind of sucked. For every real person like Mark, there
would be a thousand powerful, bigoted poseurs like Alec and Peter. I
would have to be on guard every moment in the company of such affable
haters.
My work study advisor had assigned me to a tutoring group for 'Special
Needs students'. Of course, the special need of this group was their
need to retain athletic eligibility without letting studying interfere
with the rigors of training, traveling and playing for Minnesota's
championship hockey squad. My assignments were Math and English. I met
my first students, Mike and Karl, in an assistant coach's office.
Karl eyed me hungrily and asked, "Hey, Teach, how do we get detention?"
"Yeah, we want to stay after class," Mike quipped.
"Hmm, I usually give detention to bad boys. You're not nearly bad
enough for that."
"We'll work on it," Karl promised.
I worked them through some 'practice exams' in trigonometry. They were
clueless, until I analogized the sine, chord and tangent concepts to
the ricochets of hockey pucks off sticks, boards and helmets. Then it
began to click, and they got the practice test on the third try. They
were drunk with success and ready for relaxation, and demanded that I
join them for a happy hour at the Sigma Chi house. I was struggling to
extricate myself from their advances when I heard the welcome sound of
a familiar voice.
"Alex, is that you?" Rick bounded into the room, and lifted me in a
joyful embrace."
My lips dodged his and I whispered in his ear, "It's about time, I
mean, the nick of time."
"Oh, sorry Rick dude, we didn't mean to skate on your ice, OK, dude,"
Karl apologized.
"Hey, that's cool man, how were you to know this babe was my good
friend."
"She's a great teacher. You're a lucky dude," Mike added, shuffling
away and saying, "Next week, right here, right."
"Good luck on your exams, guys!"
As soon as they left, Rick closed the door and said, "Wow, I like what
Santa brought."
"If you had waited much longer, it could have been the Easter Bunny.
What's the matter with you?"
"You know, we were like, busy, getting back into it and all."
"Too busy to call? Gimmee a break."
"You didn't call me. I dunno, I wasn't sure, you know, how I would
feel. I mean, we're so, you know, different."
"You mean I'm so different?"
"You sure are different now. You look, like, awesome." He reached for
me, and I did not object as he fondled my still tender breasts.
"Careful, I'm still very sensitive." He slipped his hands under my
sweater and gently caressed the silky lace of my underwire bra, and
tilted my head back in a passionate, breathy kiss. My anxiety and pique
subsided, and I succumbed to Rick's firm but fond embraces. His hands
eagerly explored my new contours, then impatiently fumbled at the clasp
of my bra. I guided his clumsy fingers to help him free my breasts from
their lacy confinement. He stroked my still scared nipples impetuously,
and I gasped, "Be gentle!" He pulled my sweater up and over my head,
and I twisted my neck from the turtleneck, hair tousled and face
flushed with the effort and passion.
Rick stared, goggle eyed, and gently cupped my perfect, conical boobs
in his large, strong hands.
"Alexandra, they're, I mean you're, fabulous."
And this was the moment I had longed for, and dreamed of, since those
sweaty, opiated, painful days on my bed-sore ass in Phuket. All that I
had been through was requited in that one phrase, from a guy who'd
ignored me until he practically tripped over me on his way to the
shower. What was I thinking? What kind of passive, chick thing had I
lapsed into? Fuck, what did I care? He wanted me. I wanted him.
Then a shiver of paranoia ran through me. If he was so transfixed by my
boobs, if he saw my pussy, he would fuck me until I hemorrhaged and
bled out on the floor. My passion quickly found common cause with
self-preservation, and I tugged at his shorts. His manhood was nestled
in the shell of a jockstrap and cup, unfamiliar and unhappy memories of
my own pathetic athletic experience. His sweaty meat bounded from the
confines of his gear.
He was tangy with the sweat of a hard practice, and I gagged with the
first lunges into my throat: had it been so long I had forgotten this
art? Soon, my muscle memory reasserted itself and I reacquainted my
lips, tongue and tonsils to the rhythms of his groin. He grappled
for my breasts and pussy, but the wet suction of my lips and cheeks on
his cock distracted him and brought forth an instant anointment of
precum to my glistening lips.
He seized my bobbing pony tail and soon was straining and spasming, as
the sensations of my lips and tongue on his cock and my breasts
pressing on his thighs brought him under my control. My breasts
massaged his muscular thighs with each lunge of my lips down his shaft
to his lap, and he murmured, "I wanna fuck you," and began to roll me
off his lap, but I shook my head and resisted, and he surrendered to
my insistent blow job.
He let out a guttural moan, and banged my head savagely onto his cock
as he orgasmed wildly, down my parched throat into my hungry tummy. He
popped out with his last thrust. I firmly squeezed his balls, sending a
squirt sprayed into my eyes and hair, before the last droplets oozed
onto my breasts.
As he relaxed on the coach's couch, I wiped his spilled seed from my
neck and reapplied my gloss and mascara. He looked up and smiled and
said, "That was great, worth the wait. What a great surprise, ah,
surprises."
Now that I had momentarily unmanned him, I felt safe to disclose the
whole truth. "I'm full of surprises. Are you ready for more."
"Oh, there's more. Like what, a tattoo?"
"Close your eyes, and no peeking." I wriggled out of my jeans and let
them plop to the floor. I stepped to within reach. He squinted at my
panty clad form, and I warned, "I said no peeking," and he obediently
closed his eyes. "Now, slide down my panties, and open your eyes."
His eyes practically popped out of his head, and I noticed the
coiled snake between his legs sprang to life. "Whooo, Alex, you got a
pussy." He rose and grabbed me from front and behind and reached his
hands through my vacant crotch, and then fingered and pried open my
tiny labia.
I winced and said, "Careful, I'm not nearly ready," he was already
pulling me onto his lap and pressing his re-hardened cock head against
the narrow opening.
"Really, I can't and you can't, it's too new."
He had gone deaf and was trying, futilely, to enter me with his drained
penis.
"I can't believe it, it's so perfect, you're like a real girl. Just
like I'd always dreamed."
"This is how you wanted me in your dreams?" I felt a warm glow light me
from within.
"Exactly," he replied, and rolled me onto my back and grabbed and
pulled my ankles over his shoulders. He pressed against me again, but
his cock lacked the energy to do any damage, and I covered my
vulnerable vagina. I lectured him sternly. "None of that yet. You
could ruin it or hurt me." He nodded but ignored me and I warned him
sternly "I mean really injure me if you do it before I'm ready. It's
not big enough or strong enough inside yet."
"How long do I have to wait?" he complained.
"At least another month."
"No way. Well, how about the old way?" He reached beneath me and began
fingering my ass.
"Not there either, they had to operate there too. Please, don't, it
could be really dangerous. You could rip my insides and I could bleed
to death. You wouldn't want that, would you?"
He shook his head vigorously. "Wait for me until I'm ready, and I
promise I'll save myself for you, even though you are too big. And in
the meantime, we can do this." I licked his balls playfully, and then
took him back into my mouth. To my amazement, he was hard again, but my
renewed blowjob would not bring him back to climax.
He shook his head in frustration, and said, "It's not enough."
"Wait there, I have an idea." I grabbed a tube of lubricant from the
bottom of my purse and spread it between my breasts. I lay down on the
floor and beckoned, and said, "Sit on my tummy." I gasped as he crushed
my rib cage, but wrapped my tender breasts, nipple to nipple, around
his cock. "Now rub it there," and he began plunging into the tunnel of
my tender breasts. It was a glorious sight to see his cock head
bounding and receding through the circle that my boobs made around him.
I was thankful that I had prevailed on Dr. Sanguan to use the 350 cc
implants, which had given me the very generous C Cups which now
sheltered and surrounded Rick's insatiable cock.
Soon, he was pounding away, and though my breasts ached from the
relentless pressure, they were sufficiently healed to endure the
thrusts. After a few minutes he came, and my collarbones were adorned
with another necklace of molten pearls. Rick collapsed to the floor
next to me, breathing hard.
"I guess you must approve."
"God, I'm sorry I had trouble controlling myself, I was just so
overwhelmed. It's so incredible. You're irresistible."
"Thank you. But you have to promise me, no trying to fuck me until I
say. Otherwise, you shouldn't see me. The doctor really warned us,
nothing for another month at least, and maybe not until after another
operation."
He thought for a minute. "What do you mean, us? Tran had an operation
too?"
"Yeah, and don't you dare tell Randy. Let her surprise him."
"So she's not ready either?" I hit him playfully. "No she's not, and
don't even think about it."
"Yeah, right," he muttered. Of course I knew I could never trust him,
but with Tran, I could at least keep an eye on him. And I wasn't so
trustworthy myself. "Really though, you have to let Tran surprise
Randy. Don't spoil the surprise for them." Besides, I had to remind
Tran to unman Randy with a blowjob before she let the cat out of the
bag, or pussy would get its tail pulled. Randy was even more
uncontrollably libidinous than Rick.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of an opening door and footsteps.
"Someone's coming," I said, and Rick replied "Holy Shit." We quickly
pulled on our clothes straightened the disheveled cushions on the
couch, and were seated books in hands at the desk when Assistant Coach
Barnes entered his office.
"Getting in a little extra credit with the tutor, Rick?" he snarled
sarcastically.
"Yeah coach, Alexandra here is really helpful."
"I'm sure she is," he said, sniffing the air ostentatiously.
"What subject are you working on, French?"
"Math, actually. But I'm fluent in French, if anyone needs it."
"They all need it. They're just not studying it, huh Rick?"
"Right, coach," he said with a masculine guffaw.
"Listen here," he said wagging his stubby finger at me. "Do what you
want, with whoever, but no French tutoring in my office, if you catch
my drift. Now pack up and go. No, just you, Mademoiselle Tutor. Rick, I
want another hour on the ice from you."
I packed up and left, my face burning with embarrassment. I called
Tran, and warned her that Randy would soon know our secret. "So if you
want it to be a surprise, call him now."
"Alexandra, did you already do him first?"
"No, but if you insist, I will. Rick will get over it, if you do." I
was warming up to the concept.
"I have an idea. Let's both surprise him."
"Tran, you are such a bad influence."
I took a quick shower and was doing my make up when Randy called on the
intercom. Tran let Randy in, and after a brief murmured conversation I
heard the familiar sound of squeaking bedsprings. As I applied fresh
make up, I eavesdropped on my best friend, and my former lover. They
began with polite, slightly stiff greetings, and progressed to giggly,
breathy kissing, and then to fierce, athletic passion. I listened to
sounds of lips sucking, cheeks popping against a lunging penis, the
slight chokes and gags that occur in a really determined blowjobs, and
in brief interludes, a few lovers' words, between their gasps and
groans.
As I applied my gloss, I recalled vividly how Randy's wild cock had
rammed down my throat and into my ass. His groans become grunts, the
squeaking of the bed become deafening. I remembered the exquisite rush
of energy that his orgasms brought, and I envied my friend. I heard
their breathing gradually subside, and their murmurs rise, as I brushed
my hair to smooth, silky perfection.
I chose the perfect moment, just before Randy took his post-orgasmic
piss. I emerged from my hideout, wrapped at the bodice with a towel,
and said, "Randy, shame on you. Too busy to say hello to an old
friend?" Randy looked over his shoulder and said, "Whoa, Alex, I, I-ah"
and then I plopped on the bed next to him, opposite Tran, and let my
boobs escape from the unraveling towel and slid under the sheets by his
side. He was immediately transfixed.
"Wow, they, ah, you look, like, great. What a great surprise!"
"Go ahead, you can touch me," and he began fondling me. I murmured
gratefully in response, and Tran propped herself on Randy's shoulder to
observe approvingly.
She commented, "I like hers better than mine, too. It's OK, admit it,
they're softer."
"I love yours too," Randy said politically, rolling onto his back to
observe, and fondle us, in stereo. He did look really happy, relaxing
between two beautiful girls, each hand on a breast.
"I really got a handful here," he joked.
"I gotta surprise for you too," Tran said.
"What's that," Randy asked. "I like these surprises so far." As her
answer, Tran took his hand from her breast and pulled it down her
tummy. Guessing her intent, I slid his other hand toward my new pussy.
Tran won this erotic race, and Randy said, "Whoa, what's that, I mean,"
and with that he reached my vagina saiding, "Wow, this is unbelievable,
you're like, regular girls, lemmee see." He rose to his knees, threw
back the sheets, and said, "Wow, this is like a dream. You're
incredible. I wish I had two cocks," and I noticed his cock was
stiffening again. "Like, I don't know where to start."
"Start here," I said, and wrapped my lips around his member, which was
still salty with his last orgasm, and Tran's saliva. "Or here," Tran
said, gently nudging me away and taking her turn.
He reflexively and relentlessly tried to escape our lips and mount
Tran. "No way, our Doctor says we must stay virgins for at least, ah,
six more weeks. Maybe more."
He tried to mount me. "Really Randy, it's not safe for us to have sex
yet. We're not healed inside."
"Oh, shit, it's just irresistible. I got to have you, now."
"No, not yet, let me give you another blow job."
"Both of us," I offered.
"OK, but let me at least touch you, let me see."
We squiggled our pussies down toward his astonished face, and began
giving him a double blowjob, occasionally warning him not to push his
fingers into our still healing vaginas, and occasionally soothing our
cock-sore lips with a kiss of the others swollen mouth. Nineteen year
old guys are one of God's gifts: after about twenty minutes of this
divine revelation, he came again in a fountain of cream that oozed
gently from the purple hood of his cock.
He dozed as we showered together. I remarked admiringly to Tran, "Too
bad these pussies don't work as good as they look."
"I'd be a happy girl then," Tran replied.
"And he'd be a happy guy, too. Keeping him on the outside is going to
be impossible, and Rick is no better."
"Well, what is it, another week and we can do it the old way."
"You think? But will they want to?" I asked.
"I think they won't know the difference."
"You're so bad! How will we know it's safe? I don't think Sanguan makes
house calls to Minneapolis."
"We had the same operation at the same time. After your big operation
last year, Student Health has to give you a free examination. That's
how I'll know. If you're ready, I'm ready. And I'd better be ready
soon, because I'm s-s-s-o horny. And s-s-s-s-o broke."
Mr. Watanabe's hush money was running out, and my scholarship and grant
money barely covered the room. I was sick of being a starving student,
and Tran and I were sexual entrepreneurs by nature. Not only did Rick
and Randy need to be satisfied, but so did our own financial needs.
The next morning, I called Student Health and asked for an appointment
with Dr. Peter Prince. His assistant had me come in for blood tests,
and Dr. Prince made room on his schedule the morning that the lab work
was done. I made a point of blowing my hair and dressing to the max.
It was still freezing by my standards, but a tight ribbed turtleneck,
under an open pea jacket, over my new body warmed me and the atmosphere
all around me. Dr. Prince wandered absently into the waiting room,
looking about absently and called out, "Alexandra Rivers," and gazed
around vacantly, his gaze passing over me and returning only after he
had searched the room. With a startled nod of recognition, he
exclaimed, "O my god, that's you, Alex!"
"You didn't recognize me?"
"Well, now I do, but you look...fantastic"
"Do you like my new look?"
"You look lovely. Come with me," he said, recovering his
professionalism. "I gather your overseas trip was successful?"
"So far, so good. I'd like your opinion as to how successful."
"Perfect, I've arranged gynecological consult. And I think we better
take a peek at your colon." He led me to a waiting room and I was both
alarmed and pleased that the gurney was equipped with stirrups.
"Put on this robe, and lie down," he said, handing me a pink paper
gown. I'll be back."
"No med students, OK?" He nodded.
I lay on my back, and slid my feet into the stirrups at the end of the
gurney. They swung open, and I was naked and open. I loved the feeling
of vulnerability this contraption gave me. But how would I look? I had
peeked with a mirror, and Rick and Randy had stolen glimpses as they
pried apart my squeezed thighs, but this was my public debut. I pulled
the edge of the gown to cover myself, and rested my hands on my
breasts, like a prone Botticelli Venus. Dr. Prince knocked and entered
with two colleagues, and mumbled introductions.
"Tell us about your procedure." I described it and they nodded,
mumbled, and conferred as they peered, palpated and prodded me. "This
is going to feel a little cold," the GYN warned as he slid an icy
object into my vagina. "Tell me if it hurts."
"No, it feels like a Popscicle, but it doesn't hurt. Uff, that hurt."
"You've got some blockage at 5 cm. How is the dilation going."
"Better than at first, but I can't get anything bigger than the 1"
stent past that part."
"Scar tissue at the junction of the penile inversion and the colon
tissue."
"Oh, no, Dr. Sanguan warned me. I didn't dilate hard enough."
"It was inevitable. It's like grafting a apple branch to a pear tree.
You can do it, but the tree forms a knot."
"Can you fix it?"
"I don't think anyone but the original surgeon should operate. I
wouldn't know where to begin."
"He's in Thailand. I can't go there for months."
"That's OK, it shouldn't be done for a couple of months, unless you
want to do it more than once."
I was crestfallen as they completed their exam. With that exception, I
was perfect. The colon re-section had healed perfectly, my hormones
were perfect, my breasts were perfectly centered and positioned, as
were my vulva and labia, which were small, but even and parallel.
Even my vagina was perfect, except for a single cincture, which
rendered it useless for sex. After the GYN and the proctologist left,
Prince and I talked.
"You're disappointed?"
"Of course, I mean, I knew it could happen, but I tried so hard. And
my boyfriend is going to be so bummed."
"Well, if he cares about you, he'll wait."
"I don't know, you know how boys are."
He wrapped his arm around my shoulder. "Alexandra, I'm confident that
you'll figure out how to keep the boys coming." I smiled at this double
entendre, and glanced up at Prince. Had he intended it? Was he coming
on? He had a perfect, professional poker face.
"So other than that one little problem, all systems go?"
"You're perfect. My hat's off to you and your surgeon. He's an artist,
and you're a masterpiece." I glowed with pleasure from his compliments
all the way home.
Tran was, as usual, dilating and watching an Asian video when I got
home.
"Shit, I can never get the larger stent in," she cried in frustration.
"Forget it, you probably got it too, the ring. We gotta get back to
Phuket."
"Let's go now! I'm bored and sick of cold."
"Tran, we don't have the cash for the tickets, much less the surgery.
And Dr. Prince recommends we wait two months anyhow."
"You got any good news?"
"Well, sort of, my colon is completely healed."
"Oh great, we can start getting fucked in the ass again? I was just
getting used to not getting it there," she said bitterly. It had been
about six weeks, our longest abstinence ever. "What was it like
starting again?" she asked.
"I got back into it after the first few times. But we're different now,
so I don't know. And Rick definitely wants my pussy?"
"He won't even know. If it's tight and wet, he'll fuck it without
noticing or caring. I fooled lots of guys before," Tran predicted
confidently.
The weather had improved, so Tran went out canvassing for my T-Girl Sex
Worker Study, and I had an interview with Lulu, an almost passable,
homeless transsexual. Lulu was sullen and uncommunicative, and refused
to take the intelligence evaluation test. She asked, "So why's a high
class bitch like you axin about my life?"
"What makes you think we're so different?"
"Shit, look at you, look at me."
"We've got more in common than you think. I'm trans too."
"Well fuck me! Aren't you a peach? But you're all ladylike, and you can
pass, and you're ejjakated. They kicked me out in eighth grade, been
livin' on the street since. Whattaya know 'bout my life, and why do you
care?"
"I'm trying to help the world understand us and see us as people, not
freaks."
She reluctantly complied with my questionnaire. She took meth every day
and she believed that she was Princess Diana, hiding from the killers
who had tried and failed to kill her, then faked her death in Paris.
Her chest, butt and face were distended with pumped silicone. She never
used condoms, even for passive anal sex. She was troubled by the fact
that almost half of her tricks wanted to be fucked by her, as she
preferred the passive role and despised the fairies that wanted her
to fuck them.
She'd been dressing and streetwalking for three years, and didn't know
her HIV status. She lived in an abandoned furniture store with three
other Trannies. She worked alone and met her clients on a couch under a
railroad underpass. She'd been busted for solicitation three times, but
had never been convicted, though she had charges pending from a bust
last week. That was why she had come to me. She'd gone down on a guy
before she realized he was a cop, and couldn't afford a lawyer. I was
patiently recording her tragic, bleak story, when the phone rang, and
kept on ringing. I picked it up and before I could say anything Rick
reminded me that he was coming over for a "study hall" in a half-hour.
"Make it an hour, I'm with a client."
"What do you mean?" he asked jealously.
"I mean I'm busy," and I hung up and continued with Lulu.
"Have you ever had a job?"
"Washing dishes at a pizza place, but they fired me. Said I was
a faggot."
"Ever try to get a job as a woman?"
"Get lots of jobs as a woman. I mean, blowjobs," she said, dead-pan. I
burst into laughter, and as she laughed at her own jest, we made eye
contact for the first time. She searched my eyes, I knew, and realized
that she saw she and I were sisters of the spirit and flesh. After
that, an hour was hardly enough for me to record her secrets. But Lulu
and I both had assignations, and as I gave her a hug goodbye, I
wondered whether the fates of that doomed soul and my own would differ.
A minute after Lulu left, Rick buzzed and I let him up. He was visibly
agitated and smelled like he'd had a few beers. "Let's get high," he
said, producing a bong.
"I can't, I have some work to do later" I said, as he lit up and the
bong gurgled ferociously.
"Wanta hit?" he gasped, puffing acrid fumes.
"Not yet, it's too early. And we're supposed to be studying."
"It's only the fourth week of classes."
"Actually, the fifth, and only two weeks until mid terms."
"Oh, fuck it, I haven't even bought all of the books yet," he said,
finishing the bong and throwing himself on my bed. "C'mere," he drawled
through his emerging buzz, sliding down his jeans. I slipped my fingers
over the waist band and worked them down his massive, bulging thighs,
then pulled down his boxers. I slipped his thick, hardening cock
between my lips and began sucking. The usual baptism of precum was
skimpy, and he was unenthusiastic in his response. "I need to be inside
you," he announced.
"I really want to fuck you."
"I don't think I can, you're too big, and I'm not ready."
"Oh c'mon, can't we just try it. I really want to try it."
"No, just blowjobs for now," and I resumed sucking, but he was
unresponsive.
"Please, if you can't handle it, I'll stop, I promise."
As if, I thought. "You won't be able to stop yourself. You're like an
animal when you're aroused."
"Yeah, and an unsatisfied animal now. I just can't stand it. You're,
like, turning into some kind of cock teaser. I might as well be with
one of those sorority cunts. I thought you'd be different."
Well, I was, but that was the point, wasn't it. I had to succumb, or
lose him. "Get comfortable, I'll be back." I went to my tiny bathroom,
stripped to my bra and panties, freshened my hair and makeup, and then
lubed my anus. My sphincters rebelled at the intrusion of my finger.
God, I thought, what agony his penis would inflict on that disused
passageway.
I snuggled into bed next to him, and he smothered me with wet and wild
kisses to my lips, neck, hair, and then progressed to my breasts. He
freed them from the enclosure of the lacy, lavender bra, then cupping
them in his hands, licked, kissed and nibbled each nipple. The
incisions around my aereoles had healed, and full sensation had
returned, and ripples of pleasure flowed from them over my entire
nervous system.
I moaned, "Don't stop," as his tongue left them and began tracing a
path to my navel, then down my linea negra, across the fading but still
visible smile-like incision at my bikini line, to my tiny, little girl-
like labia.
I had kept shaving my rather flat mons, and Sanguan had warned me that
a second operation was required to construct truly passable labia
majora. The delicate lips that he had constructed were those of a
pubescent girl, rather than a woman, but that only heightened Rick's
interest, and he pressed his tongue through them as deep as he could
into my tender, narrow vagina, then flicked my clitoris. My nervous
system had only begun to reoccupy this region, so these sensations were
faint and distant, but exquisitely subtle.
But his mouth tired of this effort, and of the massage my foot and
ankle gave his cock. He rose above me, and gave me a wet, delicious
kiss, and pressed my thighs open. He pried open my labia and tried to
enter me, and the sensations of pressure and strain were immediate and
alarming. If he could get it inside me, that club would surely shred my
still healing vagina. Visions of a painful, bloody death filled my
imagination, but there was no stopping this rampaging libido now.
I broke free from his lips and said, "No, not that way, let me get on
top, it'll be easier for me." Easier to deceive him!
I sat astride his flat, steely abdomen and grabbed my lube, as he
fingered my quivering vulva. I applied lube to my rectum, rose up, and
as I descended I pointed his erect cock away from my vagina, and into
my ass. "Go slowly, so you don't hurt me," I reminded him, and he
nodded, and then thrust upward as if his body was indifferent to his
brain's promises.
He slid up my lubricious anus, and muttered, "Oh, that feels good,
you're so tight," as my body convulsed at this sudden intrusion. A
white-hot sheet of pain seared me, but I froze my scream into a silent
grimace, and averted my eyes from his gaze, as he lunged his thighs
upward and pressed down on my hips, to further his penetration.
"Is that too much?" he asked, and I nodded through pinched and tear
filled eyes: I could not speak, without crying out in agony. He backed
out a bit, and my contorted, rigid body collapsed with relief, and he
fucked me from beneath as I lay in a swoon, my soft breasts massaging
his washboard chest, and his heaving breath tickling the hair behind my
ears.
Post op, anal sex was more painful, and less pleasurable than I had
remembered it. The removal of the masculine tissues during the sex
reassignment surgery had removed the fulcrum that had previously made
the levering of large cock in my ass enjoyable. Instead of friction of
the cock engorged colon against prostate and meatus, now felt it like
he was banging away into a void, jostling and threatening the precious,
fragile structures that Dr. Sanguan had painstakingly constructed. I
recoiled from, rather than reveled in this invasion, and when Rick rose
to a sweaty, grunting climax, I felt only relief. I extruded him
swiftly and removed and disposed of his condom, and, before he could
guess at his cock's recent destination, I had bounded to the bathroom
quickly to cleanse myself of all evidence.
"That was fantastic," he exuded. "I can't believe how tight you are."
"It's not just how tight I am, it's how huge you are. You should
register that thing as a dangerous weapon." I gave him a playful
squeeze. "It's not natural: it's like, a big mushroom or something."
"No wonder it loves to hide in your little cave," he replied. "You
know, you're much better than a regular girl. No fishy pussy smells, no
PMS, no periods, no babies, no bitchiness," he recited.
"No commitment, no marriage plans, either, right?" Or no waiting around
for female orgasms, I thought silently.
"Well, that's not what you want either, is it? I mean, I really like
you and everything, but who needs all that structure and pressure? I
think you're perfect."
I looked down at my arrogant, athletic god. He was perfect: handsome,
rough hewn, and horny. He began to harden again as I lowered my lips to
his groin, and tickled my nipples on the sinewy surface of his thighs.
God, I hope the next time is easier. And it was a little easier: that
night and each time that he came to me in the weeks that followed.
Tran had 'lost her virginity' to Randy a couple of days later. We
compared notes as we dilated on a dismal winter afternoon.
"Do you think that Randy knows that you're having anal sex?"
"I don't think so. When guys are horny they are so stupid. They don't
notice anything but their cocks, and don't remember anything afterward.
I used to fool guys all the time, even before I had the operation."
"I'm not sure whether or not Rick knows he's still sodomizing me, but I
doubt if he would really care. I mean, he probably would like to be the
one who broke in my pussy, but he just wants to bury his cock in and
cum into a tight wet hole. I mean, I know he likes me as a friend, and
needs me as his personal tutor, but he really values me most as his boy
toy: the beautiful object he can touch, or fuck, whenever he wants."
And though I never regained my desire for anal penetration, I loved
being the object of his attentions, and willingly endured this now
self-sacrificial sex. His wandering hands and throbbing, insatiable
cock reminded me of how beautiful and sexy I had become, and I liked
being his sex object on that level. Dr. Prince's hormonal wizardry, and
the continued absence of testosterone from my system rounded and
softened and softened me, and as my natural breast development
continued, it made my new breasts an even more idyllic cynosure for
men's eyes, and Rick's kisses and caresses.
As the scars faded and the surgical sites, and my nipples and clitoris
re-enervated, the pleasure of his ministrations increased, though on a
subtle and almost spiritual plane. I didn't even mind when he suggested
a swap with Randy for Tran, for a beautiful as my friend, too, had
become, I was confident that he would want me back. And since they had
emerged as two rising stars on Minnesota's hot hockey team, other guys,
even law students lick Alec and Peter, were constrained to keep at a
respectful distance, though our association with these celebrities only
enhanced our mystique.
I enjoyed being the brilliant and beautiful mystery woman at this
hockey star's side, and being part of the cult of envy and adulation
that Rick attracted around campus, as he and Randy emerged as surprise
stars on the defensive line of a championship team. And Rick delighted
in being seen with a beautiful genius who was too busy with her
independent studies and research to socialize with the run of the mill
jock and frat crowd with whom he hung out. Thus, he had the best of
both worlds: freedom to play the field at frat parties, and knowledge
that he had a sure thing waiting for him at the end of the party.
And I even came to look forward to watching them play hockey, though
the brutality and violence worried me for their safety. Still, it was a
turn-on to watch them help the team to a victorious season, with
thunderous, crushing body checks to their opponents and murderous slap
shots on hapless goalies. After all, the same body that left opponents
gasping or inert on the ice was slamming into my vulnerable flesh in
bed.
Minnesota hockey's triumphal advance to the NCAA tournament was like my
own life that semester: an unexpectedly easy and thrilling campaign.
And though he took me completely for granted, Rick was sweet to me,
calling me every day to be stroked and bolstered: despite his success,
he was barely more than a boy and needed emotional comfort and praise,
with which I was only too happy to provide him.
So it came as a complete surprise when he called me and said in a cold
and angry voice, "Alexandra, we're through. It's over."
"What do you mean, why?" I replied, though I immediately suspected the
cause.
"Transsexual Hookers? How could you do such a thing? A gay porno flick?
I'm so humiliated and disgusted. I can't believe I'm sharing you with
scum like that guy in the movie."
"I'm sorry. I needed the money, you know, for Thailand. I'll never do
it again. But I just had to then."
"That movie's gonna be around for ever. You've been scanned, spammed
and jpeg-ed all over the Internet."
"No one needs to know. I mean, I really don't even look the same now,
do I?"
"Randy and I recognized you right away."
"But you knew me then. No one else has to know."
"We know. And what about all your law school friend. He knows."
"He's been trained to keep secrets. Please don't do this to me."
"It's done. Just forget it. We're through, got it?"
He hung up as I held the receiver in stunned silence, and I remained
there motionless, barely able to breath, until I began shaking
uncontrollably and dissolved into sobs and hot bitter tears. Like the
tentacles of some alien monster, the residues of my past had emerged to
strangle and submerge me in misery.
Randy had given the same brutal brush off to Tran, so at least we could
suffer this sorrow and humiliation together. She was more experienced
and had lower expectations, so she was more resilient and less bitter
than I.
"They were OK, but too much work, too much sex, for not much in return:
just some hockey tickets and pizza dinners. We need to meet some richer
guys."
I agreed, as our funds were dwindling alarmingly. We had scalped most
of the remaining hockey tickets, and Tran was doing outcalls from her
little black book to supplement our funds.
"Only fetish and blowjobs," she informed the tricks over the phone.
"No sex!" Most of her old clients were not interested in her as a post
op. Guys are so weird.
I was busy wrapping up the Transsexual Sex Workers interviews, writing
up the findings, completing 'Hip-Hop to Canterbury' and tutoring the
rest of the hockey team. Mike and Karl started taking greater interest
in me after word spread that Rick and I were history, but Coach Barnes
warned me away with angry stares. I was so bored and horny I considered
taking on part of Tran's workload, but instead I concentrated on
finishing my research, and on writing a new grant proposal: to
elaborate the work in Minneapolis with a cross cultural study of Thai
Katoey, to be conducted through Chiang Mai University.
Finch loved the idea, and, in a stroke of genius, I included funding
for an assistant and a translator: Tran and Nancee, of course. But my
favorite class was Epstein's Minority and Majority Rights Seminar. I
was the class pet, the brilliant ingenue from whom everyone wanted to
hear. I especially enjoyed sparring with the right wing, who always
seemed surprised a well dressed, pretty young thing like me wouldn't
support their conservative views. And sometimes the issues, or at least
my feelings about the issues, got muddled. Both Epstein and the liberal
wing of the class praised Reno v. ACLU, in which the Supreme Court
struck down the Communications Decency Act, by which Congress had tried
to regulate the publication of indecent materials over the Internet by
forcing the content poster to identify the recipients of their
downloads.
As a recent victim of unauthorized posts to Internet newsgroups, I was
personally ambivalent. But that expression of my sexuality, though
hurtful as I was copied and broadcast to the world via alt.sex.trans.,
had been the means by which I had financed my sex change. For me, the
First Amendment had been necessary for my survival. Peter and Alec
squared off against me and Epstein again.
"So you think we should let school kids visit porn sites from library
computers. I'm sure even Thomas Jefferson and James Madison would have
disapproved."
"I think the Internet is like the public squares of Ancient Greece. The
standards that we set now will guide the freedom of human discourse for
years to come."
"Great, our descendants will be reading about 'Girls Who Dig Animals,'
and remembering us as champions of freedom of deviance."
"Hey, the first photographs were porn. No one remembers the 19th
Century as the age of sexual liberty."
"And photography flourished, even as indecency was suppressed."
"The rules you make here will be copied in the Peoples' Republic to ban
the Dali Lama, or even the Bible. Can you live with that?"
"Can you really compare porno to the Bible?"
"No, but the Chinese will, and they'll ban both. You won't have a
principled basis for opposition."
After class, Alec cornered me. "Still sticking to the left, sure way
to get an 'A' in here."
"Thanks, I need it. Remember, I'm