Jumping the Gender Barrier: Difference between revisions

Split ''Victor Victoria'' out of the Live Action TV example it had been rolled into because of plot similarity.
(Split ''Victor Victoria'' out of the Live Action TV example it had been rolled into because of plot similarity.)
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Some Like It Hot]]''. "Nobody's perfect."
* ''[[Victor Victoria]]'': A very het guy finds himself attracted to a female impersonator, and eventually decides to go ahead and pursue a relationship with him, but then finds out she is actually a woman who's pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''Victor/Victoria'' and theThe BBC ''[[Casanova (TV series)|Casanova]]'' series. InAs bothwith ''Victor Victoria'' casesabove, a guy is prepared to have a relationship with a man, but then luckily finds out they are a woman.
* Oddly enough, Quark gets caught up in two distinct instances of this trope on ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'':
** Quark's brilliant new assistant has fallen in love with him, greatly distressing Quark who is not interested in males but values the subordinate's insights and abilities. Unfortunately, the reveal that this Ferengi is [[Sweet Polly Oliver|actually a female posing as a male]] in order to have a chance to earn profit does not come as any real relief to Quark because females are forbidden from earning profit (or even wearing clothes) and if anyone ever found he got business advice from one, he would be ruined.