Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she escaped from as a child and searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters who have dispersed after escape.
Reference to torture involving fingers, early in season one when Lydecker is putting pressure on Vogelsang. There's a dis-embodied finger in the episode "Out".
In S1, Normal dates a trans woman briefly. He's very accepting but the young people are not, Cindy says something like how this woman would be a "science fiction girlfriend" (which sounds badass but she says it disdainfully).
In S2, the t-slur is used as an insult against transgenic people.