PSYCH 133: Gender Identity, Gender Diversity, and Gender Dysphoria/Incongruence

Clinical Deep Dives · Sep 25, 2026 · 56m

Medlock Holmes enters an immense Neo-Victorian institution called The Grand Observatory of Gender.

At its centre stands a transparent human figure surrounded by several rotating brass rings.

One is labelled:

SEX CHARACTERISTICS

Another:

GENDER IDENTITY

Another:

GENDER EXPRESSION

Another:

SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Another:

SOCIAL ROLE

The rings frequently align.

Sometimes they do not.

Holmes immediately discovers the chapter’s first essential distinction:

Gender identity and sexual orientation are not the same thing.

A person’s internal experience of being male, female, nonbinary, another gender, or…