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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* [[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.
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* 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.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Ivankov's Devil Fruit power lets him perform [[Magical Plastic Surgery]] on anyone he touches (himself included), includes gender changes. The process only takes a minute, and is ''usually'' requested the recipient, but he has used the gender-change in combat as well.
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* Averted in ''[[The Sandman]]'' story "A Game of You"
== [[Fan Works]] ==
▲* Averted in ''[[The Sandman]]'' story "A Game of You"; Wanda lives as a woman and appears to be taking hormones but won't get "the operation" because she's terrified of surgery. It later comes out that she was rejected and despised by her entire family, who all want to pretend that the whole "wanting to be a girl thing" never happened. Sex change (or more accurately, gender change) appears to have been very hard for Wanda so trying to live as a man must have been even harder.
* Discussed and averted in, of all things, a ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' fic entitled
* A great number of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'' fan works are based on Zelda's Sheik disguise being this, rather than simply an illusion spell of some kind.
* There are a large number of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' where Harry, Draco or some other male character is abruptly and unexpectedly turned into a woman. Usually played with, though, in that no matter how the change was accomplished, for some reason it's almost always [[First Law of Gender Bending|impossible to reverse]].
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* Averted in ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'', when Hannibal says that the [[Serial Killer]] will probably be found to have been rejected by multiple sex reassignment clinics because he thinks he wants to be a woman, when he really just hates himself.▼
▲* Discussed and averted in, of all things, a ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' fic entitled "Princess"; Kowalski, the resident [[Mad Scientist]], quite easily ''could'' give Julien male anatomy, but they decide it's a bad idea because it would raise uncomfortable questions from the humans and because Kowalski's inventions have a tendency to go horribly wrong.
▲* Averted in ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'', when Hannibal says that the [[Serial Killer]] will probably be found to have been rejected by multiple sex reassignment clinics because he thinks he wants to be a woman when he really just hates himself.
{{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.
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* 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.}}
== [[Literature]] ==
* 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]].
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* [[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.
== [[Live
* 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]].
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* Averted in ''[[CSI]]'' in one episode, where they investigate the death of a woman and discover that she is a transwoman in the midst of transitioning to female, and has not yet had any genital surgery.
* The sitcom ''[[Soap]]'' had almost the perfect example of this trope. In an early story arc, Jodie ([[Billy Crystal]]) decides to have a sex change to please his boyfriend. Despite no real life experience (aside from a bit of crossdressing), no hormonal therapy, no psych evaluation, still looking like what he is (a man), he gets admitted to a hospital to have his outie turned into an innie, and they're apparently quite willing to do it. {{spoiler|Of course, he does not go through with it}}.
* In the "Nobody's Perfect" episode of ''[[Karen Sisco]]'', Karen hunts fugitive Louis DiNardo. Eventually, it turns out that Louis has had surgery to become "Lois". The timeline is a little vague, but certainly not enough time has elapsed for the requirements of ethical SRS medical treatment. While easy, the surgery is also thorough (Lois specifically mentions that she no longer has a penis, and that she "doesn't miss it"), and quite successful. While Louis is played by a male actor, Lois is played by Alexandra Billings, an [[Attractive Bent Gender]] female actress—albeit one who [[
* ''[[Degrassi]]'' has set themselves up to sidestep this whole part of the issue by putting Adam in [[Teen Genius|Grade 11 at age fifteen]], meaning he's on schedule to graduate from [[High School]] and therefore the show before he turns 18 and can begin physical transitioning. They do have a history of [[retcon]]s to keep popular characters around longer, however...
** ...and they've done it! Adam was retconned into a sophomore in the second half of Season 10. That was fast.
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* 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.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* 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.)
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* ''[[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.)
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* 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...
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* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[CRFH]]'' is the horrifying side businesses of the Hot Dog Man, which include "quick and effective sex-change surgery".
* Comes up a lot, sometimes subverted, sometimes played straight, in ''[[Unicorn Jelly]]'' and other works by Jennifer Diane Reitz. Interesting to note that the author, a transsexual herself, might actually qualify to an extent. She admits to having dealt with emotional and psychological problems her whole life and had to be somewhat less than truthful about this during the pre-treatment screening in order to avoid being turned down, though incorrect use of reassignment surgery due to deliberate subterfuge on the patient's part may be beyond the scope of this trope.
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*** Bending the truth to satisfy the decidedly un-PC standards of the 20th century medical establishment is one thing. Reitz's issues on the other hand...
*** Even now (and possibly reflecting a shift [[Double Standard|too far in the right direction]]), the [[National Health Service|NHS]] won't even entertain a transman who likes men.
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* ''[[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]]''.
* In an arc of ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'', the Tiresias Orb is a potent magical device that can change the gender of one or more (or hundreds) of victims in an instant, without any discomfort. (Well, except in Nina's case, where being turned into a boy gives her [[Third Law of Gender Bending| a sudden urge to play video games]].) The schools resident [[Alpha Bitch]] at first wants to use it to pull a mean prank on Lyla, but then Blair (a [[Perverse Puppet]] with the spirit of a [[Dirty Old Man]]) gets ahold of it, and well, [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* In the first strip in ''[[I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle]]'', it happens to Jean so fast that he is not aware of now being a "she" until the next strip. The same can be said of anyone she gender-swaps, something that she does quite a lot.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* 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.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* 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]]."
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