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The First Law is often justified by the [[Status Quo Is God]] principle. After all, what [[Gender Bender]] based [[Fish Out of Water]] plot could possibly survive long after it has been stripped of its central premise, or explore [[Different for Girls]] when it no longer applies? By the same token, most aversions are ''also'' justified by [[Status Quo Is God]]. If a work's ''not'' primarily about [[Gender Bender]] issues, expect the situation to be [[Reset Button|reversed by the end of the story]], probably with a [[Snap Back]] and an [[Aesop]] about "how the other half lives." Or to put it another way, if the work is a webcomic called ''The Amazing Girl-Boy's Adventures in Femininity'', expect the First Law to be enforced. If it's an episode of a [[Kid Com]] called ''Homeroom Genie'' where the [[Jackass Genie]] turns Zach into Zoe to teach him a lesson? Not so much.
Before you ask, there is indeed a [[Second Law of Gender Bending]], and even a [[Third Law of Gender Bending]]. They may or may not overlap with the First Law. Originally known as "Mandy's Law of Anime Gender Bending" after the person (outside the Wiki) who first proposed it.
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== [[Anime]] ==
* ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma 1/2]]'' observes the law in more than one way:
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