Summary

After breaking up with Z, Kobabe asked Ashley to write the scenes related to sex in eir fan fiction and then deleted the dating app from eir phone. E explains that realizing that e never had to have children, or date, or have sex, were like “gifts” e gave emself.

As a child, Kobabe started wearing undershorts instead of girls' briefs, but e could not wear shorts with menstrual pads, so e began wearing girls' briefs again after starting eir period. Later, in adulthood, Phoebe explained that her boyfriend Amila bought briefs from the boys' department. Kobabe decided to try this and was amazed at how comfortable e felt in boys' underwear. Around this time, e contemplated changing eir pronouns. E remembered meeting a writer named Jaina Bee when e was 14 and then again over a decade later, at which time Jaina told...