Bain, Darrell & Berry, Jeanine Gates 01 The Sex Gates

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minute exhortation, pleading for calmness and consideration. He
added that he was federalizing National Guard units in the states
where unrest was occurring.
These goddamned gates! Russell exploded. What in hell is behind
them? All they ve caused so far is chaos.
And a second chance at life for a lot of old people. Trust Rita to
notice when people were helped.
Not to mention a chance for women in oppressive countries to get
out from under the yoke, Donna added. I think she was finally
realizing that females in other parts of the globe didn t have it as easy
as she did.
I chewed thoughtfully on my pizza. Good and bad. Life s been topsy-
turvy since they appeared.
Yeah, and whoever or whatever put the gates here must have known
they would rock our civilization, Russell said.
I disagreed. How can you say that? Maybe this is like a game to
them, like Chaos Calling. That was a popular web game at the time.
The idea was to dream up a random factor and toss it into a given
situation, scoring points for the most change you could induce.
Whatever. You re right, Lee. We still don t know a damn thing.
That s a good analogy, though.
I could understand Russell frustration. The gates had turned his
chosen field upside down, but even after years of study scientists
couldn t get a handle on how or why they worked.
I still think God must have something to do with them, Rita said.
That upset me. I stared at her. You re not going to become a Gater,
are you?
No, of course not. I would never pretend I know what God is or what
he or she is thinking. I don t think aliens did it, though. Aliens
advanced enough to create these gates wouldn t be interested in our
petty civilization.
Damn it, the gates are like an unbreakable code. Russell ran his
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hands through his hair. Why do they only affect humans, for
example? Why not chimpanzees, or Chihuahuas?
I laughed, but Russell didn t. That fact alone makes me think they
must be the product of an alien race. The gates are aimed specifically
at humans, the only self-aware species on this planet, if you don t
count the crazy dogs and cats the gene engineers are fooling around
with.
Maybe they found Earth and didn t like the way humans were
developing, Donna suggested.
In what way? I asked.
She shrugged. Maybe they think separate sexes are the reason
behind the constant turmoil on this planet. Maybe they think we are
too polarized and need to learn to handle both male and female
energies. Maybe they think the gates will steer us in another
direction.
They certainly will do that. In fact, it s already happening. Rita
winked in Donna s direction. Whether that is their intent or not
though, who knows?
I turned to her. Why do you think the race will go off in a different
direction? We re still human, after all. You told me yourself that
persons changed by the gates retain the same basic drives we ve
always had.
So we do, but there hasn t been enough time yet to see how it will
play out. Once the majority of the population has experienced living
in bodies of each gender for a time, the basic gestalt of the race is
bound to change in some ways.
There s a flaw in your thinking, I said.
What s that, smarty?
For one thing, gender-changed individuals will never make up the
majority of the population. Some people don t want to change their
sex no matter what benefits it offers. Almost thirty percent of the
oldsters still refuse to enter a gate, even when they know they re
dying.
Rita looked smug. That will change over time. We re already seeing a
slight decline in their numbers. Besides, the ones who do change have
had a lifetime of experience, not to mention a lifetime to accumulate
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