"Well," Mina drawled, "as I understand it, in your time, it's no great anomaly for a woman to be a doctor. I would call that progress, I think. Decidedly an improvement over my world."

Mina always had a hard time reconciling her sex and her gender. Her mother's doing, perhaps. But just as much her own too, she supposed. After all, it was her choice to continue living as Mark after the money ran out.

And yet...it burned her every time she had to sign her name 'Mark Barrett.' She'd chosen to be Mina. It was her identity. And she still couldn't use it to get what she wanted most of the time.