"I don't really remember the transition. We all woke up at some point after the power went off and beat the shit — pardon my language — out of Vic...or. I think Lauren's told you that part. Then we figured out we were trapped and we made Victor tell us everything. We used persuasion on him that included some nail clippers and his own cigarette lighter." She waited a beat and then said, "And he deserved it," in a curiously flat tone.I had been making notes as she talked — lawyer's habit — and now. Cruising through the city’s dusk was one of the small pleasures of my life. Feeling the cold wind coming through the window as I traversed under the orange lights, downtown brimful of nightlife, always made me feel younger and hopeful.I went upstairs to check on my wife, but she was behind locked doors with her sister.I took the opportunity to take some of the edge off on my bedroom, cautiously alert. About an hour of short videos later I heard their door. I’d ordered pizza when my smiling wife. He had made notes about other apps and how much it was going tocost to download them all."Jimmy, may I come in?" his mother called as she tapped on his door."Sure," he turned away from his computer as she pushed through the door."Jimmy, if you are going to wear a dress you need to be sure to keepyour knees together." Oh, sorry," he quickly pinched his legs in. "What's up?" I've been doing some thinking and I called your father and we talkedand well how would you feel if I asked you to put on. Over the next month, I had no body rejection reaction to the estrogen. Instead, I started to see signs of acceptance in my body.Rather than suspend the treatment, I was given the fast track with a psychologist and a psychiatrist. I met with my counselor twice a week. The biggest concern in the medical field was that I would become unstable during my transition.My attitude was I wasn't transitioning at all. I had never been a man, so becoming a woman wasn't dropping one sex and heading to.