No one was exactly certain what had started the Great Calamity in 2020. Some say it was an attempt to cure the rampaging coronavirus that resulted in rampant side effects. Others say it was a different biological attack perpetrated by the Chinese. Or the Iranians. Or Domestic Anti-Feminists. Or someone. Still others thought it was space aliens, or a solar flare, or perhaps even an act of God. Whatever the cause, in the early 2020's a large percentage of the world's female population were either killed or rendered sterile. On top of that, birth rates of female children plummeted..from about a 50/50 chance of a child being born a girl to approximately 1 in every 100...and given the rampant diseases still plaguing the world, there was only a 33% of that child surviving to adulthood AND being fertile.
With birthrates plummeting and mass casualties, wars started over night for the salvation of the human race. The few women who were still of child-bearing age and unaffected by the viral outbreaks were snatched up as vital resources, their bodies essentially becoming government property in some cases. Nations went to war to try and capture these "wonder women" and tensions became worse and worse. Eventually, nuclear war was launched and much of the world was left in chaos and anarchy. In the United States this was the case, though eventually the Americans found a different way forward. Scientists found a way by synthesizing certain DNA fragments within reptiles and fish to cause spontaneous gender reassignment. These "new women" would have immunity from the various viral strains that plagued natural born females left over from their former male lives, but would also become fully functional members of the fairer sex.
With these changes in place, overtime a large swath of the former United States and Canada became a repressive, male dominated society, that survived by creating new women. Every year in towns across this new country, boys who reached 15 years of age were led in a series of tests and exams to determine who was "worthy" of being a man in this new society. Those who weren't deemed manly enough (or were unwanted members of society in some other way) were instead subjected to the hyper-feminization process, which not only changed their gender, but also involved radical mind-altering drugs which suppressed natural intelligence and aggressive tendencies, making these new women docile and entirely dependent on their new male benefactors. These women were then auctioned off or given to the graduating men to become their new wives and servants. Those men who did survive the trials were given a similar drug cocktail, though one that enhanced their masculinity and intelligence, making them fit to be "leaders" in this new world order. As for any natural born girls, they were generally viewed as a liability and either subjected to the mind-altering drugs as soon as they reached puberty or left to die as infants due to exposure. Though there were rumors of natural born women lurking in the woods trying to fight this new oppressive patriarchy...
Who do we follow in this "utopia?"