Chad's birthday was coming up and it was turning into a major publicity event. (All names are gender neutral until their gender is assigned to them at which time one of fifty gender suffixes is added to the name). Chad's father, Chaderjga, and Chad's mother, Chadeneta, were eagerly waiting to find out what gender their twelve year old child would become. But so was the whole city.
It seemed that something had gone wrong with the system that determined gender. This problem started sixty years ago when it seemed like the system made more boys than girls but sixty years ago, it was only a slight statistical discrepancy. Over the decades, the discrepancy grew as more children became male but fewer children became female. There hadn't been a female child in the city in twenty years. Even worse, the problem seemed to be spreading and there hadn't been a female child in the county in five years. The last female born in the country was exactly one year ago today. So everyone was eager to learn if the system would finally grant the town another female.
Tensions were high and there was fear that if Chad became another male, it would spark a riot or even a revolution to overthrow the government. The government denied that they were tampering with the system. They said the computers that determined gender had locked the government out so that they couldn't tamper even if they wanted to.
That appeased the public for a while but the government didn't know how long that would last. There were three main reasons why the people were upset. Many men were upset by the shortage of women but many men were also upset because they believed they should have been women. Then there were the very few women who were tired of being so severely outnumbered.
Even though the number of men had increased, the number of manly men decreased. Those who didn't want to be men settled on their masculinity because they had no choice but they stayed as close to being female as they legally could. Those who did want to be men gave up on trying to be macho since there were no women to impress. The whole population was docile and depressed. They lost interest in the arts. They lost interest in sports. They lost interest in life. They just went from day to day like zombies, existing but not living. They desperately needed Chad to be a girl. If Chad became a boy, it would probably be the last straw for the whole population.
The problem was, Chad didn't want to be a girl. From birth, he clearly showed interest in being male. He was one of the few manly men in the city even though he wasn't male yet. He was personally terrified of what would happen if he was made female and he was also terrified of what the public would do if he was made male. Oh what to do?