I stop at the door, take a breath, turn to the doctor and try to speak as kindly as I can. “Alexa’s mistake was not erasing every part of this curse.” I say, “So can you please show us to the room with the gender-change machine and set it to ‘boy’?”

“Lex!” she whines, “No!”

“—Yes. They can me back and erase every trans memory. Riley, you can drop me off at my dorm after and I’ll figure out my life from there.”