Chapter 4

We woke up the following day and turned on the news for the election returns, and they were still counting ballots. We had room service breakfast, and we got the kids and ourselves ready and went back to the headquarters with my family.
Vice President Cindy Williams and I took the stage together and waved to the crowd. I haven’t talked much about Cindy, but she was a Transformed Female like me, and she worked just as hard on the campaign as I had. Cindy was one of the earliest people who believed what I was doing was right, and we had helped her find and adopt her children as well. Though she had ten children, four were now young adults, and six remained with her. Our kids were best friends and often seen in each other’s company.

The returns started coming in by the afternoon, and we were winning State after State. By dinnertime, we had won the threshold needed for a victory. I got up to make a victory speech,

“Hello everyone, yesterday America told us that they want me to lead this country. America has been bruised and battered. Our work is cut out for us, and we have a long way to go before our country gets back on the right track. But I am optimistic that the people have spoken and you want us to do the job we promised. Now it’s time to put our Families First and get America back on the right path. Thank you for trusting me to do this; I won’t let you down.”

By the end of the day, it was apparent that the Feminist party was decimated in the election. We won majorities in both the Congress and the Senate and were poised to make significant changes to our nation.

The Feminists were not going down without a fight. Even though they had lost at the polls, they were scrambling to see if they could fight the election results by claiming that the election was stolen from them and I had somehow won illegally. Feminist state governments had tried to overrule the election results in a few states and declare them invalid. There were huge protests, and those governments were run out of office by massive angry demonstrations.

I was amazed that the Feminists would try to pull something like this since the people had spoken in the past that our democracy would hold and no one could steal an election and override the voter’s will.

Then the Feminist President did something that I thought was purely vindictive and evil. She signed an executive order banning Transformed Females from holding public office and banning Transformed Females from marriage.

“That bitch, she can’t win at the polls, so now she thinks that she can steal this election from the voters with this bullshit!” I said as I was livid. “And she’s trying to keep me from marrying Thomas. There is no way in hell you will get away with this.”

I was stunned at this blatant power grab. By doing this, the President was trying to invalidate the election results and had banned my other Transformed Female candidates, the Vice President, and me from holding office. Not only that, since I had publicized my engagement, she had forbidden me from getting married to Thomas.

I called my lawyers to see how we could fight this before Inauguration Day. We immediately filed for an injunction to prevent this new law from taking place. We then petitioned the Supreme Court to rule on her order, saying it was unconstitutional and I should be allowed to hold office and get married.

In mid-December, we stood in front of the Supreme Court, and we stated our case against these unprecedented laws. Well, the court agreed with us, saying it was an unconstitutional attempt at restricting the rights of Transformed Females.

I thought the President would try something else, but I guess she finally admitted defeat and relented.

In January, I went to Washington with my kids and Thomas, and they swore me in along with Vice President Williams. Conspicuous by their absence, no members of the Feminist party, including the former President, were in attendance. I was now the President, and I was still amazed that we had done it. After the Inauguration, Thomas and I went over to the White House, but the Feminist President, Racheal Black, had already vacated the premises. The staff graciously took us on a tour of the White House, and I told my kids there were many bedrooms they could choose from here. It was the first time that children lived in the White House for many years.

I looked at Thomas and asked him if he wanted to move in with me.

Thomas smiled and said, “Not until I marry you.”

I smiled and replied, “Fair enough. I guess you will have to make an honest woman out of me.”

Once we moved in, we started setting up our administration and hiring all the people we needed. A wealth of transformed females wanted to work with me, and we were hiring them in great numbers as well as women and men who were willing to work in our administration.

When we thought we were ready, I made a state of the union speech in Congress. I wanted to outline to the American people what we wanted to do in our first four years in government. We took it for granted that we wouldn’t finish everything in my first term, but we wanted to give it our best shot.

“My fellow Americans, I am standing in front of you tonight since we are about to change our country back to the way it should have always been. Years of Feminist mismanagement and their abandonment of the marriage between two people had almost destroyed this country. If it wasn’t for the single men of our country stepping up and transforming into females to bring back children to our great nation, we might have lost our country forever. Yet the Feminist women watched and did nothing while the men made all the sacrifices to do this for them. We all owe the Transformed Females a debt of gratitude.”

“Now the transformed females have given us a baby boom, and these children will soon be of marrying age. I don’t want to see our country fall back into the mess we were in before. We have a unique opportunity to set these young adults on the right path that humanity has traditionally taken. We will promote marriage and help our young couples buy a home and raise a family. Two young adults can do no nobler action than be married and raise a family.”

“We are only at the beginning, and I don’t know how far or quickly we will get down this road. We may have unforeseen issues ahead, but please remember that we plan to proceed and follow our plan. Thank you and goodnight.”

We began our year passing new legislation to help single transformed females adopt their children from social services. We also looked at changing divorce laws, making it harder to divorce. If a couple divorced, they would just split assets 50-50 without the burden of alimony, and we set child support at reasonable levels. We made it easier for people to get married with grants and programs to support young families when they needed financial help.

We turned our eyes towards the education system and adopted a curriculum that promoted families with men and women marrying to start a family. We didn’t discourage women from taking a career. Instead, we explained that a woman’s primary responsibility was to her family, and if a career helped her do so, it was in her best interest.

I hadn’t realized how much the women and men who were the children of the transformed females were different from the Feminists. These young women seemed to be very feminine and have highly maternal instincts, and the young men were just as likely to want to marry them. I don’t know if the scientists purposely made their DNA this way, but they were strongly attracted to each other, and most of them wanted to get married and start a family. One day I would investigate this phenomenon. Their mutual attraction was a welcome surprise for me, and it made our plans much easier to accomplish.
We promoted marriage and helped young people get together to marry. We set up grants and tax breaks for young families to help them get started. We reversed the transformed female laws, declaring we were all women and telling them they now had equal rights to natural-born women.

The great transformed female programs had run out of men, and we opened them up to anyone who wanted to become a young woman. We would still perform the procedure for no charge, but you would have to sign a contract to stay in a birthing center for five years, and you would be paid for your time there. We also would give significant bonuses to any new woman willing to sign up for a second or third term. Our Transformed Female retention rate was over 80%.

We found that many older women, long past their childbearing years, signed up for the procedure to become young women again. These women found joy in giving birth, many for the first time in their lives. We also supported the transformed women to find their offspring and adopt them, and many girls did just that.

I had a slight pause in the spring, and Thomas and I were married. My children were part of the ceremony, and I was able to get my transformed women friends as my bridesmaids, and Thomas found his alpha buddies to become his grooms. Of course, it ended up being this massive production in the Washington Cathedral and streamed live on the media.

When Thomas and I walked out of the Cathedral together, the crowds waiting for us were huge, and we waved to them as we got into our limo.

“Hi everyone! I am so happy that you decided to come out and cheer us on!”

We had a massive celebration at a convention center as we had so many friends that we invited and all our candidates and their families. The party went on into the wee hours, and Thomas and I were exhausted when he carried me into the Presidential suite at our hotel.

“Well, here we are, Babs, we finally made it, and I made an honest woman out of you.” Thomas gave me a passionate kiss.

“Let me help you get out of that wedding dress.”

“That’s a great idea, Tom. Let me help you get out of that tuxedo.”

“Damn girl, you look so hot, you have always been the girl for me, and I am going to ravish your ass off tonight,” Tom said, then he kissed me passionately again.

We both had some energy left, and Thomas and I made sweet love with each other until daybreak when we finally fell asleep in each other’s arms.

I was too busy to go on an extended honeymoon, but we did spend a week afterward in Hawaii for a short one and had a great time. We flew out on Air Force One, and the secret service and the news media accompanied us. They tried to keep tabs on us at all times, but we still managed to find our privacy when we could.

We returned rested from our break; Thomas moved into the White House and became my First Gentleman. We had such happy times together, and Thomas and the children always kept my spirits up. Now and then, we would all fly back to our estate in California for a break, and I would set up my western White House. I was often busy as President but never did so at the expense of my family, as it was always “Family First” for me.

I would go on live broadcasts, give State of the Union addresses, and regularly update people on the increased marriage numbers. Our young people were starting to get married in increasing numbers.

New families were springing up all over the place as more young people became of marrying age. My oldest two children both had a steady boyfriend and girlfriend, though they were not at marrying age yet.

Then something unexpected happened to me.

“Tom, you are not going to believe this, but I’m pregnant!” I told Thomas, and he was overjoyed and kissed me.

“Babs, I am so happy. I love you, girl, this is excellent news. We have another child together,” he said as he kissed me again.

We told our children I was pregnant with another child, and they thought I was the greatest mom! I did have an IUD placed in my uterus, but with all the lovemaking, I became pregnant anyway. That alpha male sperm of Toms found a way.

Soon, the word got out that we had another first with my presidency. I would be the first woman president to give birth in office. We both thought it was terrific, even though I had planned not to get pregnant again. Thomas and I just took things in stride, and neither of us regretted I was pregnant.

As I grew larger and larger, we continued with the family first policies. In many abandoned parts of our old cities, our young families built homes with the government’s help. Our cities were growing once again. The economy was picking up steam. Everything I thought would happen if we could restore families was happening.

As I grew in size, my popularity increased as well. Though the feminists didn’t like me, more people thought my way, and my popularity increased with my belly size. I was nearing 80% popularity which is something unheard of in politics. Sure, I was a Republican, but I represented all Americans and was never partisan.

Today was the day. I got up early in the morning, and my water broke as I had a coffee.

“Tom dear, It looks like today is the day for me, as my water just broke.”

Thomas was excited and rushed around, getting everything ready for my hospital visit.

“Thomas, please calm down and have a coffee with me.”

“Sorry, Babs, but I have to get everything ready for you.”

The Secret Service drove us out to the hospital, and I met with Vice President Williams. We swore in Cindy as President while I was giving birth, and she was tickled pink.

I smiled and said, “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do,” and we laughed together.

Like in the old days, I was in labor for only a few hours and had no complications in childbirth. I had a new baby girl, so I kept up my alternating boys and girls streak. I named her Erica Cynthia Rutherford-Holden after my aunt and Vice President Cindy.

If you were wondering, Holden was Thomas’ surname, and when we married, we changed our last names to reflect that. I wanted to make it Holden-Rutherford, but Thomas insisted that our new surname was mine first since it sounded better and ladies go first. I insisted that all my children were also renamed as Rutherford-Holdens as well.

We were taken back to the White House and brought Erica to her new nursery. I was able to hire one of my old nannies, and she moved in as well. I spent as much time as I could with Erica and nursed her as many times as I could. The nanny took care of her at night, so I didn’t have to worry about the night feedings, but I pumped spare breast milk for her when I could. It undoubtedly embarrassed some of my aids if they came into the Oval Office and I pumped my breasts, but they eventually got over it. Erica was a cheerful girl, and even if I felt down due to some political BS that day, Erica always brightened my day as soon as I saw her. That was one great thing about working from home; I could always take a break and visit with my new little girl.

I kept VP Cindy busy traveling around the world for me as I raised Erica that first year, and she loved doing this for me. I would run for a second term, but seeing how well Cindy turned out, I thought she would make a great President one day. It turned out that we had a couple of foreign crises the first year, and Cindy did a great job at putting out the flames.

One night we were invited to a state dinner at the UK embassy. Thomas and I, along with Cindy, attended. Well, wouldn’t you know it, but the UK ambassador had a son around Cindy’s age, and they hit it off with each other completely. If I ever thought there was love at first sight, I witnessed it that night. Cindy was with us when we left and traveled back together, and she was in cloud 9. I asked her about the ambassador’s son, and she just smiled and said to me, we have a date next week if I am not in the Middle East. His name was Richard Hollingsworth, and she had a crush on him big time, as I could see it in her eyes.

She giggled and commented, “I adore his British accent, and he loves me, being from Texas and all.”

Cindy and Richard became an item and were soon seen together at every DC function. The press would post a picture with them with the caption saying “Foreign Relations?” And other silly captions, but neither one cared. I was told that they were even more prominent in the UK. The British tabloids went crazy over them. It seems that our programs were working well in the USA, and other countries like the UK were starting to take notice. Their young people born from their transformed females were also beginning to marry. There was no stopping these kids, and the UK government played catchup with them. In their recent election, the UK Feminist party was soundly defeated. The Conservatives took power after campaigning on a similar pro-family platform. It seems our media was big over in the UK, and their kids could see what was happening here and wanted to do the same as the Americans. The Brits soon passed laws similar to ours and followed our path as it was such a success.

Other countries that had transformed female programs saw the effect of all these new marriages jump-start their economies. Europe, Russia, India, Brazil, and China, where their transformed females had given birth to a baby boom, were experiencing economic growth themselves. Their governments soon announced pro-family policies too. As I predicted, everything else would fall into place if we took care of and helped our young families. There was no longer the pall of stagnation hanging over the world.

A few smaller countries that were not in the transformed females’ program were clamoring for the technology in the UN. It was now a worldwide phenomenon. There seemed to be no talk of war anywhere in the world now. Most countries were reaping the benefits of the baby boom, and where there is stability, there is peace. My term had only a few crises, and I didn’t mind spending more time with my baby and children. America was now humming along like a well-oiled machine, and the country’s optimism hadn’t been higher in over a century. Our country’s population was almost 200 million now and was at the highest level since the 22nd century began.

The midterms went by, and all it meant was the feminists lost big time everywhere. Federally they no longer held any seats, and it was back to the old days with the Republicans and Democrats dueling it out. I worked well with the Democrats. If they came up with any good idea, we would look into it. And in the government, we had many bi-partisan bills we worked on together. The second half of my first term went by so smoothly since the Feminists could no longer be a thorn in my side. Sure, they were still complaining about me on media, but they were hemorrhaging supporters since my policies were working well for the country.

I won reelection for a second term by another landslide, and it was even bigger than before. Thomas and I celebrated with my kids, and two more of them moved away to college now, leaving me with my two youngest children. My oldest two were in serious relationships, and they both found fine mates. I felt like marriages were around the corner for them, but I spoke with both couples and asked them to wait until they graduated. They both agreed, and I was able to postpone the inevitable for at least a year or two.

I wondered why these young people and I were alike in that the women were highly feminine in nature, and the men were extremely masculine. The more I looked, the more I could see this. Still, unlike the older men, none were assholes, but they were all kind and caring to women and treated them with respect and dignity. I also realized that my children and I had an unwavering sense of telling right from wrong, a moral compass, you might say. None of my kids were ever disobedient or rebellious or did anything remotely dishonest. It just didn’t seem to be in their character.

Curious about this, I looked up the father of the Transformed Females project, a brilliant German geneticist named Dr. Merkwürdigliebe, who was now retired. I contacted him and left a message, asking him several questions regarding the Transformed Female project, and he got back to me. We had a fascinating conversation as he told me about the transformed female program.

“Dr. Merkwürdigliebe, I am interested in how you created the mindsets of the transformed females and now their offspring. Every transformed female and their children seem to be different from before.”

“Hans, please call me Hans, Madam President.”

“Yes, Hans, but I must insist you call me Barbara. I was curious about my psyche. I changed physically from before when my doctors transformed me, and I now think differently. We all know a transformed female’s body is genetically perfect and has no genetic defects. But I was wondering how my mind had changed. Even though I was a man, I now have no issues with being a female, and I think of myself as quite feminine. Sexually I have no interest in women any longer, and my sexual attraction is only for men.”

“Well, Barbara, we not only changed your body, but we also unraveled how the human mind works. We were able to extract the memories of your previous life along with your personality and were able to store them as a file on a computer.”

“When we transformed your body, we also changed the genetic code and transformed your brain. We built your sense of femininity into your brain and made sure that you would have a solid understanding to tell right from wrong, and you would always feel compelled to do what is right. You know that some people were bad seeds, consistently dishonest, etc. I didn’t want to have that happen to my children, so I made all of you honest and hardworking. I also gave all of you the ability to respect, cooperate and work with each other. I am sure you have had disagreements, but you were always able to compromise and develop a solution with which all would agree. Tell me, Barbara, have you found anyone with whom you cannot cooperate?”

“Only the Feminists were too stubborn to work with me.”

“But it wasn’t because of you, Barbara. You might say that we gave all the transformed females and alpha males this same basic programming. And then we took your old memories and personality and copied them back into your new mind. Your new mind would have rejected any negative traits you had, but you would retain all of your good characteristics, and your memories would remain intact.”

“Now sexually, we researched this and found that men and women were more attracted to each other when they were utterly masculine or completely feminine. Part of the problem we were having with men and women was that they were becoming too much alike, and they no longer had a sexual desire for each other. This lack of attraction between the sexes had a detrimental effect on our population as people were no longer getting married and having families with each other. We identified this issue and ensured that our transformed men were masculine and our women were feminine. As you have found, men and women are attracted to each other once again and are building families, correct?"

“Yes, Hans, they are now highly attracted to each other and utterly loyal to one another when they marry. Thank you for talking with me today, and if I have any further questions, I will contact you. Goodbye, Hans. I enjoyed our chat.”

I closed the call with the good Doctor and sat back to think about what I had just learned. People would work together and cooperate from now on, building our society back stronger. We probably wouldn’t need armies to defend ourselves in the future since everyone would get along and cooperate. Police may become a thing of the past since no one would be breaking the law. Hospitals would only have emergency rooms for accidents since no one would have any chronic disease. It all sounded like a brave new world, but I had to admit that our societies were functioning smoothly worldwide. No wonder our new children were working out so well with each other. Sure, we all had the choice not to do so, but we always did the right thing. The problem with humanity was always humans, and it seemed Dr. Merkwürdigliebe and his team had improved and perfected us.

We just cruised through my second term compared to my first term in office. It was just amazing. We toured around the country with the kids during my reelection campaign, and I was amazed how the country was turning around after my first term in office. Our cities were being rebuilt and refurbished at an astounding rate. Our country’s industry was expanding again, and we repaired our infrastructure rapidly. Everywhere I went, people were happy and optimistic about the future. We are firmly entrenched in green technologies now, having learned about sustainability and global warming during the 21st century.

Being President on my second term was a cakewalk for me. It was almost boring. We fine-tuned our policies and kept the country running smoothly.

Through the UN, we lent our advice and expertise to any other country that wanted to follow our path, and for the first time that I could remember, we were in no wars, and almost the entire globe was at peace. Sure, we had a few hiccups along the way, but overall, I had a great time as President, and my approval rating was never under 80% for my entire second term in office.

Richard finally popped the question to Cindy, and she said yes to him. We planned a wedding for them both and made it a grand affair. Richard was married in his British Naval Commander’s uniform, and he looked so striking up there beside Cindy. Cindy was wearing a magnificent wedding gown. They made such a lovely couple. We streamed the wedding live in both the US and the UK, and millions of people watched them say, “I do.” We held the reception in the same convention center I used, and there were vast numbers of people from the UK and many members of the Royal Family, to which Richard was related.

I was happy for my loyal VP, and we did this for her since she deserved a lovely wedding. It’s sometimes really great to be a billionaire and treat your friends like this.

I wasn’t worried about how my VP and her new husband would work out their marriage if she became President. I knew they would figure things out.

By now, all my first five children were in college, and we had given my first two children away at their marriages.
Bradley had a beautiful wife, Amanda, and Thomas and I were so happy our son was married. We set up the new family with a nest egg and told them to use it for a new house. Bradley had a great business mind and had gone through Harvard Business school at the top of his class. I employed him in the family enterprise, and he was already an up-and-coming star.

“Thanks, mom, I mean it. You are and will always be an inspiration to me. I love working in the family business now, and I will do you proud.” said Bradley as he kissed and hugged me.

Penelope found an amazing husband, James. Her wedding gown was dazzling, and Thomas walked her down the aisle as I stood there crying with joy that my first baby girl was being married. We gave them the same deal I gave Thomas and Amanda. I was amazed at James, he was as sharp as Bradley, and I employed him in the research division in one of my companies.

“Girls, now that I have you married, if you would like to work anywhere in any of my companies, just say the word.”

“Well, mom, we both have something to tell you first. Both of us conceived on our wedding night. We would sooner do the mothering thing now and worry about having a career later since now we have more important things on the way.”

“Oh. My. God, I’m going to become a grandmother!”

We shared a three-way hug, and I had to get some tissues since I was crying again.

My second term was drawing to a close. In my eight years in office, we had turned our country around and put it back on the track to prosperity again. Cindy was like a daughter to me, or at least my little sister. We convinced Cindy to make a run for President, and she accepted the challenge.

Wouldn’t you know it, but America elected Cindy for President. She won by a landslide, and we congratulated her on election night since they quickly called the election. With the country behind Cindy and Richard as her first Gentleman, I went to announce them on the stage.

I kissed her on the stage and said, “Ladies and Gentlemen, here is our new President Cindy Williams-Hollingsworth and our new First Gentleman, Richard Williams-Hollingsworth.”

Thomas and I spent our last days in the White House. We packed up our items and had them shipped back to California. I was proud of what we had accomplished, and we were both happy that Cindy would continue our programs since she believed in them from the start.

On Inauguration Day, we stood behind Cindy and Richard as she was sworn in to become President. We had granted Richard US citizenship though he still had dual UK citizenship.

“Cindy, I am so happy for you, girl. I knew you could do it.”

“You paved the way for me, Barbara, and I wouldn’t be here if you weren’t so good at being President. I owe you everything.”

We took them on a White House tour and showed them the place.

“This is your new home for maybe the next eight years. Make it your own.”

“I love the place, Barbara, and I am thinking up a few changes I can make here and there.”

“It’s your place now, and you are entitled to do what you like.”

We kissed and hugged each other, and then it was time for us to leave one last time on Marine One and then on Air Force One back to California.

Tom and I were finally back in California. It had been eight years since I had lived full-time here, and I had missed the place.

I was past my prime childbearing years and gave birth to six children. We were now biologically in our early 40s, and Tom and I were able to take a long-needed vacation from the hubbub of the presidency. My youngest girl Erica was now eight years old, and we doted over her constantly. We did some traveling that summer with Erica. She had never seen too much outside of the White House, and we amazed her with the sights the world had to offer us.

Thomas and I stood silently watching the sunset over the ocean as we held hands.

I turned to face him, saying, “I couldn’t have done all we did without you, Tom. You are my rock.”

“He looked at me and smiled, then kissed me and said, “And Babs, I may be a rock, but you are the first, the last, my everything.”

I cried with tears of joy as we embraced.

The End