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* In the final scene of ''[[The Birdcage]]'', the senator's wife and daughter must pretend to be drag queens to escape the drag club without being noticed.
* At the end of ''[[Mulan]]'', Mulan does this in order to fight [[Big Bad|Shan Yu]] and save China.
* ''[[Transamerica]]'', like many works where a non-TG actress plays a TG character, provides an example from the perspective of [[Real Life]]. Actress Felicity Huffman plays Bree, who is male-to-female [[transgender]]. Thus, in scenes where the preoperative Bree is cross-dressing, a woman is playing a
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* 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 various—mostly female—disguises.
* 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
* Then there's the 'biologically-challenged' drag queens or [[wikipedia:Faux queen|faux queens]], women who purposefully adopt the mannerisms of drag queens - in music, [[Scissor Sisters|Ana Matronic]] presents herself this way, as did [[Lady Gaga]] in her first few months in the spotlight.
* Chevalier d'Eon was a French spy who lived as a man but frequently posed as a woman in the line of duty, and claimed to have been born a woman; eventually, it was demanded that d'Eon wear proper women's clothing, which d'Eon did until death, where the physicians examining him (or her) discovered he (or she) was anatomically male... making him/her a man claiming to be a woman but living as a man until ordered to live as a woman.
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