Summary

Chapter 12 has Sahar return to Goli's support group. She is impatient and wants to make a change as soon as possible. She rushes into her time to speak and demands to know how to go about it because time is running out. She does not say what her true motivation is, to become a suitor for a woman she loves. Her pleas are met with a mix of emotions. Some of them who have managed to adjust better to the change are welcoming, and offer to get her black market hormones. Those who are having a hard time of it challenge her and suspect that she is not making the change for herself. One of the younger ones in particular, Maryam, is the primary voice of dissension.

Regardless, they paint the picture of what making a change would be. She would have...