Researchers K. N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin document the discovery of a family unable to conceive of gender.

A version of this story originally published in STARLIGHT 2 (Tor, 1998), edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden.

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About the AuthorCameron Reed is a science fiction writer and the winner of the 1998 Otherwise Award. Both she and the award had different names in 1998, but as part of a ate-in-life gender transition she chose a new one, which is an anagram of “remade crone.” She is an avid dragonfly-watcher, a moderately skilled insect photographer, and a hopeless birder. She lives with her found family in an old house full of books and cats.
Title: Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation by K.N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin : A Tor Original
Author(s): Cameron Reed
ISBN: 9781250430670
Copyright 2026
Release Date: January 28, 2026
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
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Language: English
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