Wishing to fix her gender was obvious, but it wouldn't be enough just to be a man--Kelly wanted to erase her whole life as a woman, and experience growing up as the boy she always knew she really was. At the same time she didn't want to regress to infancy--the thought of going through toilet training again had little appeal.
I wish, she whispered, that over the next hour I will turn into a strong, healthy, smart six-year-old boy, and that when the transformation is complete I will be part of a loving family, and grow up to be a happy, well-adjusted man.
Kelly felt the first, gentle touches of the ring's power. Her breasts began to shrink, and her vagina began to close. She began to lose height, and knowledge the new Kelly would neither need nor want began to leave her brain. Goodbye, how to use a tampon! Kelly smiled as she felt her brain being reorganized, the left side growing more dominant, as the last thirteen years of her formal education began to disappear, year by year.
The physical changes continued. Kelly felt her hips narrow, as her body lost its curvature, and became that of a wiry, strong teenage boy. Her hair withdrew into her head, becoming a short, cropped style. Her chest continued flattening. She grinned as the last trace of breasts disappeared.
After half an hour Kelly was to all outward appearance an androgynous looking small person in his or her early teens. Her education had regressed to junior high, while her sense of herself was gradually altering. She was no longer a woman wanting to be a male, but a male with an unusual life history. He laughed with pure joy. Kelly's former hatred of women, caused by her own self-hatred, was disappearing as well.
In just that moment the most momentous change began as Kelly's former clitoris grew into a boy's penis, and her ovaries transformed into testicles, moving into the new scrotum that had been Kelly's labia. Kelly was now unmistakably male, although pre-puberty--her pubic hair had disappeared.
The last ten minutes were occupied with internal changes, as Kelly's womb reformed into a prostate, and half of his X chromosomes were replaced with Ys. Her pants and shirt had shrunk and reformed to match the boy he had become. The knowledge in his brain was now that of a smart, well-educated six-year-old. Precisely one hour after Kelly's original wish, he heard a woman call out "Kelly, where are you?"
"Right here Ma" answered the boy. He quickly slipped the ring off his finger and threw it away. He didn't need it anymore.