protozoa to the recently passed peak of extreme differ- entiation. And so, her Utopians of the far future live according to the following time-table:

No difference between boys and girls

Birth to 18 years: Between 18 & 20 yrs:

All grow to be women and beautiful

tall, strong

Between 22 & 24 yrs:

Between 45 & 75 yrs:

After 75 (to 100?):

Having spent 4 years in the "labor draft" doing the world's work, they become "mothers, by external birth The 70% who show the inclination and aptitude become men, the fath- ers" and husbands of the group. The best of them become sexless individuals; the highest judges, priests, prophets etc. of the race.

Put as bluntly as I have had to in the limited space available, this sounds perhaps a little far-fetched; but the argument is more plausible when properly expanded. We, and our transexual friends, appreciate more than most how very thin and artificial are the partitions which separate the genders and we should be the first to applaud the courage of anyone who foresees an end to this increasingly weird world where the tools of the 20 th century must be used according to the rules of the 1st century!

So, my dear sisters of TVia, it seems that we are just a little ahead of the trend, and constitute the fore- runners of destiny: Try that one for size but don't try it on the local cops, they may not have got the word yet!

Sheila (30-B-2FPE)