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** Once Ranma acquires his gender-changing [[Curse]], no attempt at curing it works, at least not permanently. Further, many fans have observed that he seems to attract water (which triggers the change) as easily as fiancées and rivals. However, attempts by other characters at making Ranma permanently female ''also'' fail, so this may be less the Law than [[Status Quo Is God]], a common trope in author [[Rumiko Takahashi]]'s works.
** The "rules" of Ranma's curse are biased in favor of the Law. "Cold" water will turn Ranma into a girl, but pretty much any temperature below body temperature will suffice. Turning back into a boy requires genuinely ''hot'' water. Simply warm water won't do it, so she is usually limited to two options: taking a hot bath or obtaining a kettle of just-boiled water, which Akane seems to supply quite often.
* Megumi in ''[[Tenshi
* Mizuho in ''[[Otome wa Boku
** The manga shows his face in his 'male' persona, and he still IS cute.
* Likewise ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'' randomly obscures its lead's face until he becomes female, even though he's described as 'girly' to begin with and looks virtually identical. The lead also remains a girl, even though [[Girls Love|(or perhaps because)]] two other girls fell in love with her.
** It's strongly implied that "he" was transgendered all along without realizing it, and that was the reason behind the Gender Bender in the first place. Hell, she even had the same female voice actor during the male phase.
** The aliens specifically stated that the transformation was irreversible.
* Inversion: Sailor Starlights from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. They spend significantly more screen time in male identities, to various degrees, with the handwaving that this makes their act of posing as pop idol singers looking for a lost love more convincing. Of course, the show is [[Shojo|aimed at girls]]...
* Exception: Makoto in ''[[El
* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] Vampire Guilt-Na-Zan of ''[[Vampire Doll]]'' seems to be doomed to this fate, mainly because the person who transformed him is a [[Magnificent Bastard]]. [[Lampshaded]] in one of the omake comics:
{{quote| '''Kyoji:''' "Thus Guilt-Na obtained the treasure of "friendship", much more precious than becoming a man."<br />
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* ''Gacha Gacha Secret'' has a more understandable case, as the guy is turned into a girl whenever he sneezes, but never ''even tried'' to cure it; he just used his girl-form to [[Gender Bender Friendship|make friends with the girl he likes to get to know her better]]. In the end {{spoiler|however, it's played straight, as the people that were hired to change him back screwed up because he tried to leave half-way through the treatment so the girl wouldn't lose her friend. This ends up not curing him of the changing, but ''did'' cure the condition that would have killed him if he changed too much}}.
* Inverted in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'': the club members conspire to conceal Haruhi's true gender as soon as it's revealed.
* The fake Mashiro in the ''[[Mai-Otome (
* Played with in ''Happiness!'', where [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Jun]] is turned into a girl. He's [[Gainaxing|virtually]] identical looking anyway, and it only causes lots of magic-related difficulties before he decides to turn back. This might be a simple [[Shout-Out]] to the original game, where it was related to removing a [[Road Cone]] from more openminded fans.
* Seen progressively in ''[[You're Under Arrest]]''. In the original season, Aoi is originally discovered to wear falsies and the animators make a point to be careful about what outfits they put her in. In later ones, Aoi wears virtually anything the standard girls can wear; we only get the fact dropped in the season premieres, and the requisite [[Once an Episode|Once A Season]] episode starring him.
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* Averted in ''[[Shugo Chara]]'', mostly because {{spoiler|[[Wholesome Crossdresser|Nagihiko]] is hiding from Amu that he and Nadeshiko are actually the same person}}.
* In ''[[Birdy the Mighty]]'', Tsutomu is accidentally killed and has to share Birdy's body, although it can change appearance between the two of them. The [[Alternate Continuity|Decode remake]] takes it a step farther, when at the end of the first series he gets his own body back, it is destroyed almost immediately.
* ''[[Kämpfer
* Played straight on ''[[Vandread]]'' with {{spoiler|Nirvana sub-commander BC, aka Tenmei Uragasumi, Commander of the Taraak Intelligence.}}
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Goodbye Charlie]]'': a male chauvinist lady killer is killed by his latest conquest's husband, and returns as Debbie Reynolds.
* ''[[Switch (
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* This is the premise behind the ''[[Toku]]'' series ''[[Seishoujo Senshi Saint Valkyrie]]'', as well as the webcomic that it appears to copy, ''[[
* ''[[La Lola]]'' is a telenovela that originated in Argentina, and has been adapted in many other markets. Most of them deal with this trope:
** In the Argentinian and Spanish versions, Lalo tracks down the witch who turned him into a woman, and she agrees to turn him back (after laughing for a while). They hold hands, she starts her mystic chanting... and promptly falls backward, dead.
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** To clarify for those who aren't entirely familiar with the game: most of the playable characters can Unite with Shamans (essentially merging with them) to receive stat bonuses and, with specific combinations, a significant change in appearances and powers. Also note that {{spoiler|Spar is a plant}} and has an effeminate, asexual appearance normally.
*** Considering that {{spoiler|Spar}}'s two other combination forms are an onion with feet (I kid you not) and a plant-like dragon he may be a she to begin with.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
** Becoming a woman is a possible effect of a scroll mishap in D&D 3.0, so s/he may have found an actual lich-turning scroll and just messed up during the casting.
* Averted in [[MU Ds]], where one of the standard status effects is a Gender Bender (which really doesn't do anything in-game except change your pronoun), which affects both genders equally and wears off in a few minutes.
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*** There was also one unnamed <s> guy</s> girl who Lord Sykos sent to get tacos who had the misfortune of failing to return before Lord Sykos restored everyone else and returned to his home dimension, leaving <s> him</s> her with no memory of the incident...and a lot of unanswered questions.
{{quote| Where am I? Why do I have tacos? ...And why am I a girl?}}
* ''[[
** Also, much later, a "seyunolu" ([[Half-Human Hybrid|chimera]]) member of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]], Vlad, is hit with a [[Transformation Ray]] and is turned female, but more importantly to him/her, ''human''. "She" has no desire to change back, and since [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] overrides the time limit (and, implicitly, gender identity), Vladia, as she is now called, is treated as a woman from then on.
** Moving on from Elliot being a ''double'' victim of this, we get to Tedd. Who probably wouldn't know this was a law: the 'circumstances' usually equate to 'Dad's out of town' and 'As a girl, I'm ''hot'''.
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* ''[http://www.abstractgender.com Abstract Gender]'' - The guy who has no problems gender changing can change back and forth at will, the guy who hates it is stuck permanently.
* ''[http://www.triquetracats.com Triquetra Cats]'' started the comic this way, but soon delegated it into a minor plot point in favour of a more complex storyline - a new reader not starting at the beginning might take some time to realize they were ever boys.
* In ''[http://www.discordiacomic.com Discordia]'', it's [[Magic
* Defied in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0249.html this] ''[[The Order of the Stick
{{quote| '''Durkon''': Roy, before I cast tha spell, are ye absolutely sure ye want to go back to being a man?<br />
'''Roy''': What? What kind of a dumb question is that?? Look, I'll admit it wasn't as bad as I'd feared. I wasn't any weaker or anything. I did have trouble keeping my emotions under control, but I think that was because I'm not used to the hormones. But come on. I was born a man, there's no reason I would want to stay a woman. }}
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** Surprisingly, the latter part turns into an aversion of the trope. The clerics perform a reversal spell, and it works... for all of them except the one who obviously loved being a girl, and she obviously refused to reverse her own gender. Though one of the clerics that became male again, turned female again after sneezing. Probably implying that their return to manhood is short-lived
*** It does not look good for Tiffany, the results of [http://www.exiern.com/?p=1020 of consulting a magic encyclopaedia] about a cure is just 3 pages of mocking laughter, ''in text''.
* In the ''[[Jet Dream (
* In the photographic novel, ''[http://www.rockpapercynic.com/littleworlds/ Little Worlds]'', the part of Lev (a male character) is played by a female actor, leading to questions about Lev's gender identity.
* When [[Lovable Sex Maniac|Blair]] runs amok with the [[Greek Mythology|Tiresias]] [[Artifact of Doom|Orb]] in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'', the only major male character affected is outside getting an unconscious boy some fresh air when the orb is destroyed, unleashing a [[World
* In the webcomic ''Ballerina Mafia'', a character's friends give him an [[Easy Sex Change]] in his sleep as an April Fool's day prank. He decides to just start living life as a girl now, and was more annoyed than anything by it at first; ultimately, when she's given the chance to change back with no strings attached, she declines.
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** ''Heavily'' subverted in the character of Jade. She has trouble finding a way to transform herself ''in the first place''! {{spoiler|And once she does, failure is the only option... until she resorts to 'traditional' means. Professional surgery that works!}}
** Even appears to be occurring to Phase, who is resisting with all his might the other two. However, it's not certain that it will end up like this, as Phase is still looking through 'outs'.
* ''[[
* Two of the first main characters on [[The Trading Post]] were hit with this with different results. {{spoiler|Not long after becoming Ashlyn, Jake realized she would not be getting her original body back. Arthur/Liz, on the other hand, thought she was, only to transform into Penelope instead.}} There have been a couple notable aversions, including {{spoiler|Todd and Bryan.}}
* In the ''[[Paradise]]'' setting, humans are randomly, permanently changed into [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]] (with some experiencing a gender-change at the same time). Except for the very few who experience additional changes once per year (and thus have a chance to change genders again), these changes are permanent.
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