In this episode, the baby girl of Bortus and Klyden, Topa, underwent SRS (GRS) and became a male.

Bortus: "On our planet there are no females. "

Ed Mercer: "The Moclans view the female gender as a handicap."

Kelly: "Advocate Kagus, why is it so bad to be born female?"

Advocate Kagus: "It is a serious birth defect, which severely limits biologically, intellectually and socially."

Kelly: "Interesting. Let's look at the biological end of it. What are the drawbacks?"

Advocate Kagus: "Females are weak. They do not possess the physical strength necessary for effective participation in industrialized Moclan society."

"On Moclus all females are surgically altered to be male. This happens shortly after birth. There are few who escape this gender reassignment procedure. One of them is Heveena, whose parents decided against this sex reassignment surgery."

"She and other females escaped to a refugee colony on another planet, 'The Sanctuary'. When the Moclan government found it, the females were captured and moved back to Moclus. The Orville tried to intervene and a temporary agreement was reached. The Moclan government would leave the Sanctuary alone on condition that The Planetary Union does not recognize the Sanctuary and no new refugees would be admitted there."

"Will the Moclans ever accept females and stop the gender reassignment procedure?"