Claire's first idea on how to deal with the nerves that her change to the world had left her with had been to reach for her phone and scroll through her social media. Force of habit.
The resulting doomscroll didn't come without surprises - a friend of a friend had just given birth and, from his post about it, it seemed he couldn't be any prouder. A lot of the people she'd met went by different pronouns now, and so did a bunch of her favourite artists on the bird site. There was news that researchers had just made a breakthrough in studying the mechanism the body uses to reshape itself according to one's choice at puberty, and hope that the discovery could lead to lost limbs and damaged organs being able to be regrown by the body. Someone she'd followed on her private account had just posted to ask for sex toy recommendations for someone who's neuter - turns out you can't go wrong with a wand vibrator and, although Claire had never gotten around to trying a wand vibrator out for herself in the world she'd used to know, turns out as well that there was one of them on her shelf now.
Scrolling through the feed on her private account, as well, one thing she couldn't help but notice there was how the porn had changed. No artist seemed to take it for granted anymore that putting two men together would mean putting two people with cocks together, nor that putting two women together meant putting two people with pusses together, nor that putting a man and woman together meant putting together one of each. The "fantasy genders" that had used to mean women bearing improbably sized breasts alongside improbably sized penises and men bearing bare pecs and vulvae together without surgery scars now meant characters having things like udders in place of any of the three conventional sets of bottom parts, or characters having only a partial set of bits in the way that someone comfortably neuter might fantasise about just dipping their toes into one of the other possible sets. Characters having both sets of parts remained as elusive a fantasy as ever, only now seeing characters who had both sets of parts paired with characters who had neither was a matter of seeing the impossible being paired with the everyday.
All of that, then, left Claire with still only more to take in. There was her own rewritten sex, then there was the way that all of society's givens about sex had been rewritten around her as well. Her own neuter sex could remain the newest, strangest thing in the world to her, while to all the world around her now it would be one of the most basic of all the givens it had ever known. One last thing stood out to her - a post which her own memory told her she'd never seen before, but which this world told her she'd bookmarked just a few days ago: One of the people she was following putting an assurance out there that, although it could still be so easy in this society to think otherwise, having children really wasn't the only way that a person had of contributing to the world.