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** Invoked when female fangirls giggle about how much they'd like to see [[Bifauxnen]] Fujioka Haruhi dressing in girls' clothing because "he" is so pretty.
** Haru is also dressed as a girl at one point for a Zuku production, and is ''really'' ridiculous-looking with strange ringlets and clown-like application of makeup that nearly descends into the [[Uncanny Valley]]. She's also more believably disguised as a girl in the episode with the obnoxious elementary school boy who wants to impress the girl he likes, and the episode with the big ball where the club is trying to get the heir to the china company and his fiance together.
** She ''also'' dresses in 17th century French "drag" for a host club event, as seen [[media:
** And when the Host Club dresses in kimonos, Haruhi wears one designed for a woman. Her clients mention that she looks just like a girl in it.
** Haruhi has never tried to keep her gender a secret. The two reasons she doesn't tell anyone: 1. They didn't ask. 2. They enjoy their current preconceptions. The episode in which a secondary character discovers it is recommended.
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* A slight twist occurs in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "The Outcast'': an actress plays an androgynous alien who finds itself becoming female due to its attraction for Commander Riker, and has to cover this up because of societal taboo.
* In ''[[Blackadder Goes Forth]]'' the character Bob, a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]], steps in to replace a drag performer. {{spoiler|The General who had become [[Attractive Bent Gender|attracted to the previous drag performer]] refuses to believe that Bob is female and loudly criticises "That disgusting drag act." It's even funnier if the viewer is aware that [[Reality Subtext|Stephen Fry, who plays the General, is gay]].}}
* ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' sends up this trope in "Drew's Inheritance," centered on the [[Hilarity Ensues|wacky hijinx]] resulting from the [[On One Condition|eccentric will]] of the Careys' late eccentric television-and-movies-obsessed relative. His condition for Steve
* In the Japanese TV show ''[[Journey to the West|Monkey]]'', the male Buddhist monk Tripitaka is [[Crosscast Role|played]] by a female actor (Masako Natsume). In one episode, Monkey disguises Tripitaka as a woman, so that he can be sneaked through the Land Of Nightmares. Crossdressed Tripitaka is so beautiful that both the lustful Pigsy, and the King of the Land of Nightmares become infatuated with him. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* In the Japanese drama remake of [[Hana Kimi]], during a talent show, Ashiya's clothes were stolen, so "he" could walk onto the stage [[Shirtless Scene|shirtless]]. Fortunately, the doctor (who knew who she was) came along and slipped her a dress, along with a wig. The audience, mainly guys, were stunned that the cute classmate of theirs made such a pretty girl. One of Ashiya's friends, a playboy, promptly got a nosebleed and mentally berated himself for having such thoughts towards a "guy".
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'''Joey''': You might want to stay away from Shakespeare. }}
* The play ''[[Victor Victoria]]'', an adaptation of the original film (see above), is about this. A down-on-her-luck opera singer named Victoria (Julie Andrews in the film) can't find work, so a recent acquaintance and homosexual talent agent convinces her to pretend to be Victor, a drag queen who presents himself as a woman named Victoria. A confused mobster falls in love with her/him/her.
* Happens quite frequently in [[Opera]]
** The most famous example is probably ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'', which was written just late enough that this sort of role would go to a woman rather than a castrato.
** This variant occurs in ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', with Christine playing the pageboy, who is dressed as a maid because he's having an affair with the lady of the house and wants to be discreet. In the (thankfully brief) scene we see of this opera, the husband is completely fooled and hitting on the 'maid'.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* According to Harpo Marx, the [[Marx Brothers]] once did a vaudeville tour with a woman pretending to be a drag queen.
* Sarah Edmonds was a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] who enlisted with the Union army during the American Civil War. She spent most of the war working for the intelligence division behind enemy lines, in
* A recently-opened cafe in Tokyo features female staff dressed as young men in maid costumes. It caters to the [[Yaoi Fangirl|fujoshi crowd]].
* If the [[Shakespeare]] example above was not bad enough there are more than a few recorded instances of women dressing up as men to become actors, possibly adding an extra layer of cross-dressing to an already heavily cross-dressed plot.
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