gender identity theme
Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. The story makes a point related to this, for example, by featuring a character whose perception of their own gender differs from that suggested by the shape or their body, or which contradicts the norms of the society they inhabit in some way.
Examples
Captain Kirk and Janice Lester switched genders on account of switching bodies in tos3x24 "Turnabout Intruder".
9 total · 1 choice · 2 major · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) | choice | Frank-N-Furter was a transvestite alien and a sadistic pervert who perhaps got what was coming to him, we must ponder. |
| ds96x23 | major | In order to dupe Nilva, Quark underwent sexual reassignment surgery and dressed up in his mother's clothes to impersonate her. |
| movie: Vegas in Space (1991) | major | Captain Dan Tracey and his two lieutenants were transformed into women after ingesting sex change pills. |
| futurama4x13 | minor | Bender underwent a robo-sex change operation. |
| movie: Johnny Mnemonic (1995) | minor | Ralfi had a transgendered bodyguard. |
| movie: Midnight Cowboy (1969) | minor | Rizzo traded barbs with a transgender woman. |
| movie: Murder on the Moon (1989) | minor | Stepan and Maggie pieced together that Louise Mackey had undergone a sex change operation, and that her true identity was that of the international terrorist John Pedro Vogler. The Moon base commander Dennis Huff, who showed signs of being romantically interested in Louise, was particularly unsettled by this revelation. |
| movie: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (1983) | minor | A childhood prank left Aram next in line for a sex change operation. |
| movie: The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) | minor | David asked a transgendered man "what the hell he was dressed like that for" while the two were sharing a jail cell. |