Most people within the Culture will spend a 12 months or two as the other sex sooner or later of their lives, simply to see what it is like. The original Brahma was a lesbian whose beginning name was Madaleine; she chose to get transferred into a supremely masculine bodynote it is likely that Zelazny didn't see the Unfortunate Implications in this time and again, but nonetheless had a nagging fear of not being man enough to draw women.