transsexualism theme
We are asked to what extent, if any, transsexualism ought to be tolerated in society and how people who identify with a different gender than they were assigned at birth, ought to be treated. Are sex-change operations to be permitted or even subsidized?
Examples
Captain Kirk and Janice Lester switched genders on account of switching bodies in tos3x24 "Turnabout Intruder".
11 total · 1 choice · 2 major · 8 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 | Quark had sexual reassignment surgery and dressed up in his mothers clothes to impersonate her in order to fool Nilva |
| 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: 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. |
| movie: The Toxic Avenger (1984) | minor | We saw a local thug who dressed in a blond wig and a colorful dress. |
| tz1985e1x22a | minor | Billy made a couple of self-deprecating transsexual jokes that were par for the course in 1980s stand-up comedy. |