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For Laws related to this trope, see [[First Law of Gender Bending]], [[Second Law of Gender Bending]], [[Third Law of Gender Bending]]. [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman]], [[Different for Girls]], and [[Attractive Bent Gender]] are also common enough that they approach the level of Law.
Contrast with [[Rule
For this trope's impact on relationships, see [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]], [[Jumping the Gender Barrier]] and [[Gender Bender Friendship]].
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** It seems that during Joss Whedon's run on the series Xavin finally accepted femininity. Although, being a Skrull, he/she did continue to shapeshift as occasion and whim permitted, Xavin referred to male forms as being "false". Interestingly, when Terry Moore took over the series we saw Xavin assume a female Skrull form for the first time, perhaps indicating his/her deeper level of comfort with the whole thing. The issue of whether Skrulls even have set gender identities and, if so, whether it's common to attempt to change like this, has been left ambiguous.
*** In any case, Skrulls changing into other genders have been seen from their very first appearence (the four Skrulls that attempted to replace the Fantastic Four were all male). It's just that [[Chekhov's Gun|nobody had noticed the detail or thought on it]].
* At the end of the ''[[XXXenophile]]'' story "Vici, Vidi, Veni", an invading army is turned into frogs by a god they have angered. The sole survivor (who was in the god's temple at the time) announces that he believes in the god and is promptly turned into a woman and made an acolyte of the god, being led off to the novice quarters (and, implicitly, [[Girl
* In the comic book ''[[Mantra]]'' from Malibu Publishing, the main character is a warrior employed by a wizard. He's continually reborn by having the wizard transplant his soul into a new male host whenever he died. At the start of the series, the wizard is betrayed and has only enough strength to move his most loyal warrior's soul one more time. He tells the warrior that this time it will be different. The warrior awakes to find himself in the body of a single mother. The series deals with him coping with this and having to learn magic to cope with his lack of martial abilities.
* In ''[[Camelot 3000]]'' by Mike W. Barr and Brian Bolland, [[King Arthur]] is awakened from his sleep during an alien invasion. A number of Arthur's knights have been reincarnated, sometimes into distinctly different bodies (e.g., black, Asian, [[Mutants|hideous mutant]].) Sir Tristan, quite a womanizer in his former life, is reincarnated as a young woman. The appearance of Isolde (also reincarnated, but still female) complicates the matter further, although they end up in a surprisingly sweet lesbian relationship.
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* In ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', the all-female dinosaur population gradually has some of them turn male. This is due to the dino DNA that created them being mixed with the DNA of a frog species that can change gender.
* ''[[Its a Boy Girl Thing]]'' gives bickering teenagers Nell and Woody a [[Freaky Friday Flip]] via a [[Mayincatec]] God.
* The Hong Kong action comedy ''[[Holy Weapon]]'' features this towards the end. In the movie, [[Old Master|Ghost Doctor]] creates "Feminine Wine" for an intersexed woman, warning that if a man drinks even just a drop, he'd become a woman. They then have the male [[Idiot Hero]] Ng Tung look after the brew without telling him what it is or what it does. Ng Tung unwittingly drinks the brew, thinking it's a nutritious soup. Then [[It Makes Sense in Context|his penis tells him]] that from now on, whenever his body gets wet, he'll turn into a woman. He'll become a man again when he dries his body. {{spoiler|This becomes useful during the final battle, when the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Mooks]] throw Ng Tung into the river as a sacrifice, only for him to emerge fully female, complete with [[Gainaxing]] and [[Girlish Pigtails]]. Thus, he/she becomes the Seven Virgins' [[Eleventh
* In ''[[The Gamers|The Gamers: Dorkness Rising]]'', Luster is constantly switching between female and male due to her player forgetting and being reminded of her true gender. It's [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] several times, both in-character and out-of-character.
* In ''[[Frankenstein Created Woman]]'', Doctor Frankenstein successfully transfers the soul of a man into the just-drowned body of a young woman. As with most of the Doctor's experiments, things start going downhill from there.
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* [[Ursula K Le Guin|Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s ''The Left Hand of Darkness'' is basically 'what if everyone were of negotiable sex'.
* An important point in [[Charles Stross]]' ''Glasshouse'' is that the characters come from a society where [[Gender Bender|Gender Benders]] are ridiculously easy. It's implied that most people tend to settle on a particular gender for the sake of convenience; the protagonist is usually male, but doesn't even remember what his original body's gender was.
* This is pretty much the point of Virginia Woolf's ''[[Orlando:
* The middle part of ''[[Forgotten Realms|The Making of a Mage]]'' is basically "The Making of a Priestess". When Elminster agreed to serve the goddess of magic, he finds himself teleported without any warning to an unknown location and turned into a lass -- "to see the world through the eyes of a woman"<ref>and to hide him from [[The Magocracy|Magelords]] out for his blood</ref>, having ''nothing'' on her save half of broken ancestral sword, and no magic abilities save innate magic vision. Later he learned the spell himself. In the next book, Mystra pushes a silent sex-inverting spell into his mind, to give him a way to circumvent controls built into his body. Which he used while embraced... er... [[Kind Restraints|restrained]] by his current [[Love Interest]], no less. "Well met. Call me Elmara, please!"
* Several ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' characters do cross-gender human morphs. Marco morphs the female governor in one book, and presumably, Cassie and Rachel morph male when they acquire sailors for a mission on an aircraft carrier.
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** On the episode where Pam Anderson is the guest, Jay asks several questions about implants and then asks her.."If you could be a man, who would it be?" Pam responds "I could be you!" Jay then exclaims "That's perfect. Why?" Pam's answer is "So I could sit there, torturing you, asking about your implants."
* Season One of ''[[The X Files]]'' gives us the aptly named episode [[Lampshaded Trope|"Gender Bender"]] , which revolves around a sect of humanoid aliens with the ability to change sexes at will. Said aliens also have a voracious sexual appetite...which is unfortunate, as [[Death By Sex|mating with one them is inevitably fatal to humans.]]
* ''[[
** In "The Curse of Fatal Death," an [[Affectionate Parody]] created for the 1999 [[Comic Relief]] appeal night, the Doctor cycles through all of his remaining regenerations in quick succession, with the final one being Joanna Lumley. The Doctor's female companion (who was engaged to him) is understandably [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|rather disturbed]]; his arch-nemesis, [[Jumping the Gender Barrier|the Master, somewhat less so]]. The former enemies walk off arm in arm.
** The episode ''[[Doctor Who
{{quote| '''Doctor:''' See that snake? The mark of the Corsair. Fantastic bloke. He had that snake as a tattoo in every regeneration. Didn't feel like himself unless he had the tattoo...or ''her''self a couple of times. Oh hoo, she was a ''bad'' girl! }}
*** [[Neil Gaiman]] (who wrote the episode) also mentions the Corsair having a couple of female regenerations in ''The Brilliant Book 2012''.
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* In ''[[Fable II (Video Game)|Fable II]]'', The [[Religion of Evil|Temple of Shadows]] has the "Wheel of Misfortune", which kills human sacrifices through random means. Among its possibilities are electrocution, impalement, beheading and "Gender Change."
** The player has a chance to use a sex changing potion after buying Castle Fairfax. This potion is one-time use and irreversible (the game saves immediately after you use it), unless you play Co-Op online and use someone else's potion. The change is generally acknowledged by the NPCs, but your spouse couldn't care less and your child readily starts calling you 'mum' or 'dad'.
* Toward the end of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', Sheik, in a [[It Was His Sled|shocking twist everyone knows]], turns into the princess herself. There's [[Flip
* It is now possible to have different body types (and, therefore, change your sex when you change your costume) across different costume slots in ''[[City of Heroes]]''.
* Specific to ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Pokémon Crystal]]'', if the player chooses the female avatar, they must be changed into the male avatar if they want to trade with any other game, as the sprite data for the female avatar doesn't exist in any other compatible version. However, in this game the player's gender choice was [[Purely Aesthetic Gender|purely aesthetic]], so nothing is made of it.
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