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* In the ''[[Farscape]]'' episode "Out of Their Minds," Rygel runs into a similar problem. He's stuck in another male's body (Crichton's), but he is not used to a humanoid body. When he has to relieve himself, he does not know how to hold it and then has to get [[How Do I Shot Web?|instructions]] on how to go in the corner.

* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise had a few of these over the years:

** A similar occurrence happened in "Renaissance Man" where the EMH briefly took on B'Elanna's appearance and was forced to behave affectionately towards Tom in order to maintain the ruse.

** There is also the utterly dreadful ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|TOS]]'' episode "[[Star Trek/Recap/S3/E24 Turnabout Intruder|Turnabout Intruder]]" in which Dr. Janice Lester, an old lover of Kirk's, forces him to swap bodies with her. Come to think of it, it's probably not surprising that this episode is largely forgotten.

== Webcomics ==

* The entire point of the webcomic ''[[Misfile]]''. Not only has the main character gone on a semi-permanent [[Gender Bender]], the entire world has been retroactively changed so that he has apparently ALWAYS been a girl. Ash soon finds out that it's a lot easier to [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=81 get service in stores], [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=172 get away with starting fights in school], and so on. The difference in his/her relationship with his/her parents is a chapter all its own, and something that most of the other examples don't explore, for obvious reasons. Unlike most examples Ash finds the [[Positive Discrimination]] aspects just as disturbing as the negative ones, perhaps because they serve as a constant reminders that he's now on the distaff side of the [[Double Standard]]. Taking advantage would only serve to further erode what remains of his beleaguered manhood.

** Dan Shive milks [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body]] to a possibly excessive degree, although Elliot's recent [[Secret Identity]] Forms actually officially [[Fridge Horror|morph his mind]], so that's a bit different. The final word on Susan as a teenage guy was that hormones and shit didn't ''make'' her do anything she did, and men actually have free will, and therefore her father has to take personal responsibility for his infidelity.

*** Shive tends to put sexual identity and sexuality down to physical things; transformation guns on default "add" heterosexual attraction for the sex they've made you to your original orientation (so a heterosexual becomes bisexual, and a homosexual becomes heterosexual), because the original purpose of the transformation gun was for assisting breeding for populations low on either sex.

**** With the phrase [[Depraved Bisexual|"lesbian, pure and simple,"]] no less.

* Given how often ''[[Exiern]]'' milks laughs out of the Different for Girls experiences of its barbarian hero-turned-heroine, it's perhaps not surprising that a subplot about a cure attempt that backfired would end up focusing on the different for girls experiences (skirts, corsets) of the resulting [[Gender Bender|Gender Bent]] priests...including one who seems to be [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body|enjoying herself entirely too much.]]

* Highlighted in [[The Good Witch]] by deliberately contrasting it to [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body]] in the form of Roxanne, a formerly male basketball player transformed into a female cheerleader. Roxanne doesn't think of herself as a girl but her new body appears to have come with a full set of built-in female living skills at the subconscious level which cause her some cognitive dissonance every time she automatically does something feminine, [http://tgw.smackjeeves.com/comics/636305/ch-2-pg-31/ like wrapping her towel girl-style the first time she gets out of the shower.]

* Played with in [[Eerie Cuties]]: Poor Ace hasn't yet to figure out that some things [http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20101201.html are actually not so different for girls.]

** Another episode featured Leela posing as a man to enlist in the military (and keep her friends alive like she always does). However, the only error she made was slapping her CO for a congratulatory butt-pat. Most of the situation's humor came from Zap Brannigan's "feelings that are [[Sweet on Polly Oliver|weird and deeply confusing]]".

** In the last part of ''Neutopia'', everyone swaps gender. The guys just use this as an opportunity to get free drinks.

{{quote|'''Timmy:''' Why would ''I wish I was a girl''? *laughs* *changed*}}

** As an aside, almost every live action or animated-with-human-characters series on [[Nickelodeon]], from ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]'' onwards, has crossdressed the male lead at least once for comedic purposes.

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