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** Possibly justified, if the ''loss of the steroids'' affected the guards' emotional equilibrium. If they'd been taking large enough doses to have ceased secreting testosterone of their own, their sudden drop in androgens might affect them far more than the estrogen did.

* In ''[[Myra Breckinridge]]'', the character Myron Breckinridge has a sex reassignment surgery that works so well that his new persona as Myra completely convinces everyone that she's been female all along...which she should, being played by Raquel Welch (with Rex Reed as Myron who tags along as Myra's more-or-less imaginary friend).

== Literature ==

* 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]].

* The ''[[Psych]]'' episode "Who Ya Gonna Call" had {{spoiler|a man with three alternate personalities: a woman who wanted to have SRS, a confused normal guy, and a psychopath who had murdered the doctor}} to prevent his imminent surgery, although he wasn't taking hormones or undergoing any other precursors to SRS. Somewhat averted in that there was a psychologist involved, but the SRS process as presented was heavily compressed.

** Unless the psychopath character overreacted to the mere ''mention'' of SRS.

** ...and they've done it! Adam was retconned into a sophomore in the second half of Season 10. That was fast.

* Recently addressed (and averted) in an episode of ''[[Private Practice]]'', where a patient is told that their procedure will have to be delayed because Sheldon suspects that although the desire for the operation is genuine, there are psychological issues that need to be addressed to ensure everything goes smoothly. {{spoiler|He turns out to be right when the patient attempts suicide upon being given this news, and offers to help them get through these issues so she can complete the process of becoming a woman}}.

* Horribly averted in one episode of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'', where the perp is a transwoman who appears completely female due to hormone treatments but has not had genital reassignment surgery yet, and who killed her boyfriend's best friend because he found out about her transitory gender. Because she's physically male, the judge order her hormone treatments be stopped and she is placed in a men's prison, where she is brutally beaten and raped by the other inmates.

* 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.)

* With tongue firmly in cheek, one of the fake radio ads in ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]]'' advertises this sort of thing.

* ''[[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.

*** 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.

* Aversion in ''[[High Maintenance]]'', a comic centering on a transgendered vigilante and her transitioning friend/sidekick. It might help that the writer ''is'' transgendered.

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

== Web Original ==

* 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]]."

** Plus, y'know, he's a ''robot''.

*** ''Ripped'' off. Ouch. It also hurts like hell for Carl.

* In ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', Colonel Hunter Gathers' operation is remarkably superficial - he gains large breasts and (apparently) a vagina, but remains the same in every other way. The ''easiness'' of sex changes on this show is primarily demonstrated by the fact that {{spoiler|Hunter gets a ''second'' one, revealing both to be part of a long [[Xanatos Gambit]]}}.