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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.

* 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.

* Invoked in the [[Adam Sandler]] version of ''[[The Longest Yard]]''. Adam's team, the underdogs of the movie, replace someone on the guards' team's steroids with female hormone pills. Not more than two days later, said guy is bawling and weeping, supposedly acting feminine because of the hormone. To make a long story short, [[Artistic License Medicine|hormones do not work that way]]. A more likely outcome from suddenly taking a huge dose of estrogen would simply be getting very sick, in various "normal" ways (headache, nausea, etc.) Emotional side effects are possible, but would probably require testosterone-blocking medication to be taken at the same time.