Leadership Skills

College girls on all planets join groups. On Qyilar V, Wanda Martins is a living experiment. As you already know, most planets in the Community of Worlds are matriarchal. To prepare girls for leadership positions in business and government they are put in difficult situations and observed as they work out of the problems. Normally, girls do well, learning and growing with each challenge. Wanda Martins is different, a one of a kind experiment to see if a boy, transformed into a girl, can perform as well as a real girl. A lot rides on the outcome for all men on Qyilar V.

Three weeks ago Wanda Martins was Dave Thompson. Dave volunteered for the program. Many boys from university did. Dave was chosen because he was considered a good first candidate and somewhat feminine in his manner. The researchers felt Dave, as a woman, should perform well.

For Wanda’s first test, she will be dropped off in a far away city where girls are known to be kidnapped and sold in slavery. Wanda is allowed one week to find her way back home. If she fails she could die or end up a part of the slave trade. The slavers are brutal so the entire university waits anxiously for a girl sent out to return.

It has been ten days since Wanda was placed in the foreign town. Nobody has seen or heard from her. A search party was dispatched yesterday. It seems boys will never do as well as girls. Sad. What Wanda must be going through is heart-breaking.

Meanwhile in the foreign city Wanda is enjoying her newfound freedom. She has made friends, hiding her from the search party. In ten days Wanda has formed a group she intends to turn into a political party demanding equal rights for all people, even men. Wanda has all the makings of a great leader.