@Olo
I didn’t have space to put this in the post because of character limits. But the shrinking virus that acts this way, where it suddenly shrinks anybody who’s gay, came from an author named darkMind on coiled fist. He gave me permission to use it.
I always need explanations for things, and even in his stories the virus seems to randomly shrink gay men instead of being spread through sex or coughing. It’s based on random chance and same sex attraction. I love how unexpected the shrinking is in his scenarios.
I personally think it’s acting more like a slow-spreading curse than like a virus, based on that. I think the virus is the news media’s explanation of a mysterious phenom.
Meghan/Zack’s attraction to Sasha/Gabriel is what shrunk them both. It doesn’t really matter what they call their genders, there’s something queer going on there, even if it was “just” a trans man / straight woman attraction, it’s all too confusing and atypical for the virus’s taste, and down they both go.