Vic looked anxiously at the porch steps, then back into the house, trying to calculate how far from the door he could stand and still be able to hear upstairs. He didn't think it would be productive to make her get up and come inside just now.
"A while. You're still a woman, too. You identify as bigender. You change your body depending on how you want to express how you feel. It's complicated for some people at first."