mate with her

"I'll mate with you, how will this work?" You ask.

"Actually I have a question about that. You see on my planet you would be considered transgender. I know it is different with other species but on Geliese, zoob are born clear. They then grow larger and learn the ability to choose a flavour and colour this is when you are considered mid age or your race would call teenage. Sweet flavours and warm colours indicate that you prefer to grow offspring inside of you, female if you like. Savoury flavours and cool colours indicate that you prefer to donate material for others to grow into offspring, male if you like. mid age zoob experiment with different flavours and colours and some produce offspring until they settle on one of each and are considered adult." Anja explains.

"Ok, how does that make me transgender?" you ask.

"Your pink colour is a warm colour but you have a salty savoury taste. Zoobs with this kind of combination are indicating that they don't care if they create offspring inside of them or not. Since we are compatible I could grow a body inside myself with cells you donate mixed with cells I donate or I could fuse cells we donate for you then you can grow them inside you. If that is what you prefer." She explains.

"Humans don't have the ability to change flavour, we are all salty and we come in a number of different skin tones that we have from birth and can only change a little. Most of our choices are different shades of pink or brown with more options for our hair. If members of my species are to meet members of yours I would suggest taking hair colour as gender indicators as that is something our species can easily artificially change. I identify as male by the way. Males of our species can't even grow new life inside us." You reply.

"I see you are thinking about co-existence already, William. Let's leave the politics for the council meeting. You can totally grow life inside you if that is what you want. A zoob baby can grow in your stomach unaffected by digestive processes and your biochip will keep it alive. Didn't your zeron tell you that you can mate with any compatible species no matter the sexual orientation?" Anja asks confused.

"I didn't realise that meant I could get pregnant." You reply.

"Well you can so do you want to, pink guy?" Anja asks indicating that to her your pink skin meant that you wanted to grow life inside you.