happy Sunday - I’m thinking about trans clones again
Language, like many other foundational subjects, is taught to them in flash training modules. Flash training modules function analogously to downloads—lessons are crafted precisely for clone-neural configurations.
A cadet sits at the station, the curving bulbous monitor blocking all of their peripheral vision, obscuring the rows upon rows of other cadets just like them off to either side. The flash training rooms are as large as the cafeteria, extending out infinitely from gleaming white end to gleaming white end. The thick headsets they wear are enough to block out the evidence of other life around them, muting the sound of hundreds of clones breathing and blinking and swallowing in the same space.
Flash training is like reading the most sensible and parsable text in the galaxy. Each equation, theorem, tactic, and conjugation perfectly understood after one read—one glance. It’s designed that way.
If a clone encounters difficulties—if something doesn’t make sense, if a question is answered wrong, if it is hard—it is indicative of developmental abnormalities. Quickly, they have learned to close ranks around the abnormal performers, the under-performing.
The alternative doesn’t bear thinking about.
In studying language modules, clone cadets learn pronouns. Applying those words to themselves is not part of the educational material. The Longnecks and the trainers call them “him” and “he” and “them”. The worst ones call the clones “it”.
Here, today, a clone cadet finishing their fourth-year language and grammar module experiences an abnormality.
“She,” she forms with her lips, quiet as a whisper. “Her.”
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