Some Counsel for the Counselor

Pronouns had never confused Dax like this before. But after a multitude of lifetimes, constant flux seemed to be getting to the symbiont. Lela had been a girl; Tobin hadn’t been fond of gender at all, but didn’t mind traditionally masculine identifiers and never thought about it past that; Emony had also been a girl, Audrid too; Torias was the first host to really feel like a man, and what an experience that had been; Joran and Curzon had also both been men; Jadzia, well she had only ever confessed to Worf that she liked being a woman, but sometimes wished she could be a man too. Even for her, though, it had always been clear at any given moment exactly which gender she wanted to embrace. Ezri however, couldn’t make heads or tails of gender. The Trill would use female identifiers most frequently, but couldn’t shake the unease being called a woman caused. But masculine identifiers were no good either. None of it felt right. None of it made any sense.