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* [[Franken Fran]] has a [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/franken_fran/c004/17.html double example]. Possibly justified by Fran quite frankly being crazy enough to do it, especially since she performs pretty much any surgery she thinks is warranted regardless of later psychological issues and [[Blue and Orange Morality|believes]] "alive but in unimaginable, incurable psychological torment" to be preferable to "dead". Oddly enough, it's one of the few "happy" endings (though the couple in question is later revealed to have broken up after cheating on each other).

* ''[[Wandering Son]]'', which treats these types of issue more seriously in general, averts this. At one point, [[Transgender]] [[Cool Big Sis]] Yuki confides to Yoshino that her mother can't forgive her because she wanted to be a girl, "wanted it ''so'' bad." Which can imply that Yuki went through all the proper processes.

* Semi-averted in ''[[The Day of Revolution]]'': Kei/Megumi's gender reassignment goes fairly easily since she's already genetically female and physically intersexed. However, everyone agreed to go through with it far too quickly and for fairly dubious reasons.

* In ''[[He's Dedicated to Roses]]'', the main heroine briefly (but seriously) contemplates getting a sex change operation seeing how her crush is in [[Loves My Alter Ego|love with her crossdressing alter-ego]] and she doesn't want to hurt him by letting him know she's actually a girl. Of course, this idea is quickly shot down and isn't brought up again.

 

 

 

{{quote|'''Lecter''': Our Billy hates his own identity, you see. He always has, and he thinks that makes him a transsexual. But his pathology is a thousand times more savage and more terrifying. He wants to be reborn, you see.}}

* A subversion of this trope is central to the premise of the off-Broadway play and movie ''[[Hedwig and The Angry Inch]]''. Hedwig's surgery is done with little preparation by a shady East German doctor, leaving Hedwig with the "Angry Inch" of the title.

* While not as "easy" for the patient as most examples, a dark take in ''[[La Piel que Habito|The Skin I Live In]]'' is similarly unrealistic, as {{spoiler|a surgeon does an involuntary sex change on [[Rape and Revenge|the guy who raped his daughter.]] He also keeps him/her in isolation and uses him/her as a guinea pig for developing artificial skin.}}

 

* Members of [[The Culture]] can change sex ''at will'', although it does take several months for the changes to gradually take place. Justified, of course, because they're ridiculously advanced transhuman post-scarcity beings who can also (for example) produce a variety of drugs and chemicals from specially-tailored glands within their bodies simply by choosing to do so.

* Fairly easy sex changes (taking several months) are available to anyone who wants them in Walter Jon Williams' ''Aristoi'', using a "nanologic" package. Another nanotech procedure allows [[Mister Seahorse|men to experience pregnancy]].

* [[George Alec Effinger]]'s [[Marid Audran]] series takes place in the Budayeen, a [[Red Light District]] of a 23rd century [[Cyberpunk]] Muslim/Arab city. In this setting, sex changes, while expensive, are still easy and commonplace. Also quite effective, though not quite to the point of being a true [[Gender Bender]] treatment. [[Attractive Bent Gender]] is the norm, not the exception.

 

* Invoked in an episode of ''[[The Love Boat]]'' where a woman assumes that a man on the cruise is traveling for a sex change operation because he has a dress in his room (among other misunderstandings) because [[Fridge Logic|obviously he would be traveling and living as a man right up until he gets the operation and jumps into womanhood all at once]].

* ''[[Wonder Showzen]]'': Mother Nature cuts off her own lady parts with a knife, then puts them in a bucket. She dies as a result of attempting surgery on herself. Then another puppet has sex with the bucket of bloody lady parts. [[Gross-Out Show|It's just that kind of show]].

 

 

* In the Japanese promotion FMW, we have the strange case of Gosaku, who underwent a sex change and became Asuza Kudo. Then she decided to get changed back, and somehow became the [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-spider]] Biomonster DNA in the process. Japanese wrestling is weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeird.

 

* Adventure in The Sleazy Back Alley of ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', and you may run into a clinic where you can get a sex change for 500 Meat and 1 Adventure, and be on your way the same day. Do it often enough, and you become eligible for a trophy. What's the meat for? You don't want to know.<ref>[[Don't Explain the Joke|Meat is the currency of KoL. It's not used for anything in particular]].</ref>

* In ''[[Saints Row]] 2'', you can get a sex change for just five hundred dollars at the plastic surgeon. And not only is is cheap, it's instantaneous! (You can also go from white to black, or black to Hispanic, or white to Asian, skinny as a nail to morbidly obese, or just about anything else you can think of.)

* ''[[Circuits Edge]]'', the 1989 CRPG based on [[George Alec Effinger]]'s [[Marid Audran]] series (see Literature, above), likewise features several characters who have had Easy Sex Changes (though it's not an in-game option for the player/Audran himself.)

 

* Averted and pointed out in ''[[Khaos Komix]]'', and the author would know, from personal experience. Though the pre-transition was unusually easy, and they pass very well.

* Ditto for ''[[Venus Envy]]'' (also by a real life transsexual). Though Zoe has been on hormone treatment for months she has yet to develop any substantial breasts, and wears a padded bra instead. Plus the rest of her "equipment" is still intact, which occasionally causes problems...

* ''[[Ballerina Mafia]]'' has a sex change performed overnight as an [http://ballerinamafia.net/index.php?pid=20110401 April fools joke].

* One of the many possible modifications offered by GavCorps Diversity Engineering division in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''.

 

* The round robin story ''H! Flash'' had this very heavily implied to have happened to a character at the end of one of the chapters. The next writer, however, hated this trope and had "the operation" turn out to simply be exploratory surgery in preparation for the theoretically more realistic reassignment surgery to follow. The author of the previous chapter was not well pleased.

* Averted in, of all things, ''[[The Salvation War]]'' series. The character 'kitten' (small K not a typo; it's complicated) is partly inspired by someone known to the author who went through the same process herself.

 

* The ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina" and THEN back again in "Eek, A Penis" just as easily.

* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Bend Her", Bender becomes a woman to cheat at the Olympics. The procedure involves changing out his male oil for female oil and [[Freud Was Right|snipping off his antenna]]. The operation also involves hitting his body with a hammer until it looks vaguely feminine. To be fair, Professor Farnsworth ''does'' give Bender some disclosure, about the danger of Bender's being "trapped forever between the ''already'' [[Lampshade Hanging|ill-defined robot sexes]]."