My dears, you know who I am. Let’s dispense with the formalities.
"The message came through from her family once she was far away: they were changing up some of the treatment protocols, for Melissa's sake. It was going to be confusing for her new caregivers to deal with a woman's name and pronouns while they had to take care of a 'male body,' see."
My dears, you know who I am. Let’s dispense with the formalities.