Main Plot

Plot points/Scenes

Chapter 1: Imogen/Jimmy 2085 Gynaesthetician, Rights of All Men, just a four. Violet's thoughts.
Chapter 2: Magnus, Bryce 2087 Magnus's graduation party, sexual encounter with Will, taking Bryce home. Bryce goes back to Cambridge.
Chapter 3: Charlotte, Alexa 2089 Charlotte interviews Alexa. Alexa talks to Bryce. Charlotte writes her article.
Chapter 4: Jimmy, Saku Saku arrives at Galton. Saku's gynaesthetician flashback. Saku's first day.
Chapter 5: Magnus, Will, Charlotte Magnus doesn't want to be a gynaesthetician and Holden throws a fit, is calmed by Daphne. Magnus runs into Will and takes him home. Revelation: Will is a misogynist prick. Charlotte is arrested over the content of her article. Revelation: Charlotte and Will are engaged, Will threatens to break off engagement. Charlotte is contacted by resistance, via Philip Dugas.
Chapter 6: Imogen/Jimmy Imogen getting read for her first time, talking to Jenn, learning about disabilities. Imogen's first time. Revelation: Imogen is Jimmy. Also, Jimmy was forcefully sterilised.
Chapter 7: Bryce, Charlotte Bryce is contacted by resistance via Philip Dugas. They convince him to run for president. Charlotte is trained in how to share information in code via her blog.
Chapter 8: Magnus, Jimmy Magnus arrives at Galton. Speaks to and examines Jimmy. Is appalled that Jimmy was forcefully sterilised. Jimmy talks to Peter and Saku about the new doctor.
Chapter 9: Magnus, Alexa, Bryce, Jenn Magnus's first week at Galton has been hectic. He decides to visit Bryce and surprise him. Bryce comes home to find Magnus there. He reveals to Magnus that he wants to run for president and asks Magnus to help him by sharing information with him about Galton. Jenn and Philip meet in a crowded café.
Chapter 10: Saku, Jimmy, Magnus Magnus meets and examines Saku. Jimmy talks to Magnus about his dysphoria, explains that it's not a paraphilia
Chapter 11: Magnus, Jimmy, Saku Magnus goes for dinner at Verney's house, convinces him to 'experiment' on Jimmy to give him T. Verney agrees. Magnus reads Jimmy's records. Magnus reveals his plan to Jimmy, who's upset that he wasn't consulted. Jimmy talks to Saku about it.
Chapter 12: Alexa, Bryce, Jenn Alexa and Bryce talk about Bryce's planned presidential bid. Alexa goes to see Jenn. Revelation: the two are involved. Revelation: Jenn is resistance, and tells Alexa about it, and that they're involved in getting Bryce elected. Asks Alexa not to tell Bryce.
Chapter 13: Jimmy, Magnus, Saku Jimmy makes up his mind about the T and goes to talk to Magnus. Magnus has to do a pelvic exam. Kind of an intimate moment, in a non-sexual way. Saku and Jimmy talk


Non-chaptered events as of yet, not necessarily in any particular order:
As Jimmy gets more masculinised, his libido grows and he gets the hots for Magnus.
Magnus finds himself with feelings for Jimmy and confesses this to Alexa.
Magnus and Bryce talk about whether they have romantic feelings for each other and agree that they don't.
Charlotte and Will are married.
Bryce starts his campaign.
Bryce sleeps around with senators and MPs to make sure he has their support.
Charlotte writes about Bryce's campaign. Will reads it and is furious, punishing her by physically assaulting her. Revelation: Charlotte is pregnant. This episode only strengthens her resolve to work for the resistance.
Saku and Jimmy are both physically assaulted by Ian Hewett and another orderly. Magnus intervenes before things can escalate further. He's convinced Hewett and the other orderly wanted to rape them and tries to talk to Verney about having them dismissed, with Nurse Kearney on his side. Due to his history with Kearney, Verney refuses point blank.
Magnus talks to Bryce and Alexa about needing to get Saku and Jimmy out of Galton before anything worse happens to them. Alexa contacts Jenn and they hatch a plan to get them both out. Plan succeeds. Magnus and Jimmy kiss.
Jimmy and Saku arrives at Cambridge resistance HQ where Jimmy is reunited with Jenn, who doesn't recognise him at first for obvious reasons.
Magnus and Jimmy keep seeing each other. Magnus keeps feeding Bryce information.
Will is still suspicious of Bryce's presidential campaign and hatches a plan to sleep with him and secretly filming the incident with a hidden retinal camera, so he won't be seen himself, to use it for blackmail.
Bryce and Magnus have a loose conversation about Will in bed.
Bryce and Will sleep together. However, when Will tries to blackmail him, Bryce reveals that he had a retinal camera as well, and has equally incriminating evidence of Will. With mutually assured destruction, Will is effectively neutered.
Jimmy takes on an important role in the resistance. He doesn't officially exist, and there is no documentation of him as male or pictures of him post-transition. As such, he becomes an operative for the resistance who can travel around and talk to different cells without being recognised by anyone as anyone, and if he's caught, there's nothing to link him to anyone else. They end up calling him 'Ghost'.
Jimmy stops an attempt on Bryce's life.
Bryce is elected president, proposes three new laws: giving women the vote, abolishing the caste system, and decriminalising homosexuality in all its forms. He disbands the Galton institute.
With the help of the resistance's own MPs, sympathetic Tories, and all the MPs and senators Bryce has blackmail on, the laws pass.
Happy ending.

Structure

Exposition

Rights of All Men, Jimmy's background, Magnus's graduation party

Relations

Protagonists

Imogen "Jimmy" Hall Magnus Hemmingway Sakura Divine Bryce Fitzsimmons Alexa Fitzsimmons Jennifer Mordant Charlotte Crowe

Allies

Brittany Kearney Violet Hall Chad Engels Holden Hemmingway Daphne Hemmingway Philip Dugas

Neutrals/Bystanders

Charlton Kearney Melissa

Competitors

Noel Verney William Standley Carter Hall

Adversaries

Ian Hewett William Standley George Hall

Plot type

Book overview