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* 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.)

* In ''[[BioShock (series)]]'' it is stated in an audio log by Dr. Steinman that [[Applied Phlebotinum|Adam]] makes this easy, among other such things as ''race''.

* ''[[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.)

* 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...

** In fact [[Cerebus Syndrome|back when there were jokes]], the common gag was for Zoe to be hit with a ball in her new developments and her [[Groin Attack|original equipment]], reacting to both with realistic (and comedic) levels of pain.

* 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.

** Mentioned this on the discussion page, but the environment surrounding transsexuality and the associated medical procedures in the early 1980s was very very misogynistic. In order to acquire permission to receive hormones and surgery, the patient had to present a particular history - that they always felt like a woman inside, that they were attracted to men but currently sexually inactive due to not seeing themselves as gay, a number of other criteria intended to weed out lesbians, people with "masculine" (and normally well-paying) careers, people who were not perfectly "passable" and any other kind of person who did not perfectly portray the male-dominated gatekeeper community's collective image of what a woman should be. Transsexuals, of course, quickly learned what they were supposed to say and how they were supposed to act.

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