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* A jovial acceptance, where they quickly discover how much fun life is after the gender flip, and they never want to go back.
A specific variation of [[I Choose to Stay]] which often results from [[The Mind Is a Plaything of
Often used as an [[Ending Trope]] since invoking the second law typically resolves the gender-bent character's [[Fish Out of Water]] status, though it may not eliminate all [[Different for Girls]] moments.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'' Hazumu never expresses any desire to return to her former gender. Of course, the aliens announced from the get-go that she couldn't become a boy again even if she wanted to, but you'd think she'd have missed ''something'' about life as a boy, even if it was only the ability to write her name in the snow. However, since the gender change allows her to get together with the girl(''s'') of her dreams and his/her parents seem to prefer it she really doesn't have all that much to complain about. (It doesn't hurt that pre-change Hazumu was ''more girly'' than every other girl in the series and may even have been transgendered without realizing it.)
* Averted in [[Ranma One Half]]: Ranma never, ever, ever stops looking for a cure for his curse (except for one filler episode after he hits his head) though he does stop complaining about it. That said, Ranma starts to bring his macho approach to acting girly and cute. As seen in his competition with Tsubasa, Ranma's competitive streak is so hardwired that he even refuses to lose in a contest of femininity.
** This doesn't stop him from exploiting the advantages of his female form for one minute, however.
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== Literature ==
* The protagonist of David Thomas's novel ''Girl'' is a macho, laddish twenty something bloke who is mistaken for another patient while in hospital and mistakenly given gender reassignment surgery. Though initially horrified, when the news that reversing the procedure is unviable is broken to him he ends up deciding to commit fully to his new identity, and after comestic surgery, hormone replacement and therapy adapts to the life as an attractive, well-adjusted young woman. When towards the end of the book he/she is asked whether he was angry at the doctor responsible (she is suing the hospital) the protagonist admits that, given the chance, she would not want to give up her new life and female identity.
* So typical of most of [[Jack Chalker|Jack Chalker's]] [[Gender Bender]] works (given his tendency to subordinate [[Different for Girls]] to [[The Mind Is a Plaything of
** An interesting variation occurs in [[Jack Chalker|Jack Chalker's]] [[Well World]] series: All new arrivals on the titular Well World are transformed into one of the native species (and frequently [[Gender Bender|Gender Bent]] as well.) This is usually followed by a [[Sense Freak]] and/or [[Showing Off the New Body]] when they wake up in their new forms and eventually leads to an epiphany that they now regard their new body as their natural form.
** Played straight in Chalker's ''[[The Identity Matrix]]'': The protagonist embraces becoming a woman partially because it gets her the attention she's always craved and partially because the [[Government Conspiracy]] knowingly played upon that desire when they [[False Memories|messed with her head.]]
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* Slightly subverted in ''[[The Warlock Of Strathearn]]''. The main character turns himself into a woman because {{spoiler|he falls in love with a lesbian.}} This works out very well for awhile, and he enjoys many aspects of being a woman. Eventually, though, {{spoiler|after his lover dies, he begins to experience the not-so-good parts of being a woman, and begins to want to be a man again. However, his powers aren't working anymore, and he has to make a deal with someone to change him back into a man.}} He turns out to like different qualities of being either gender.
* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' after Balthamel is resurrected in the body of a Borderland woman he comes to accept his new life as a woman. His/her appetite for sex and women is not lessened in the slightest, the gender change does however broaden his interests and provide him a wealth of new assets.
* From Discworld: Although he's only crossdressing, not actually a woman, Corporal Nobbs is reluctant to get back into his male uniform/role after he's spent half of [[Discworld
* Andrew Jackson Libby, a character from several of [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s works, had his gender changed to female when he was resurrected, when it's discovered that he had both male and female sex chromosomes. He changes his name to Elizabeth Andrew Jackson Libby Long, and tells anyone and everyone that he's much happier as a woman.
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* ''[[The Wotch]]'' positively loves this trope, with four jocks-turned-cheerleaders (who later got a spinoff comic), a male teacher turned Asian girl student and an [[Innocent Bystander]]-turned-[[Perky Female Minion]], amongst others. There's even a variation where a woman turned centaur decides she prefers that form as well.
** Special mention goes to a couple who keeps swapping bodies and gender as a [[Running Gag]]. The one person who has expressed an interest in trying the other gender again recreationally is the ''girl'', not the guy.
* Played straight in ''[[
* Largely averted in ''[[
** It's touching in Vlad/Vladia's case. There's nothing kinky about her accepting the change -- for the first time in her whole life normal people aren't terrified by the sight of her, so she's willing to accept ''any'' form provided it's human, which her old, male form decidedly was not. And given that her one attempt to use her supposed shapeshifting powers was a painful, near-death experience she's not about to experiment even given the chance.
** The curent theory is that Elliot will acquire new female forms again and again until he really likes one of them -- then again, it was [[Chivalrous Pervert|Tedd]]'s idea. Between {{spoiler|flying around as a [[Chronic Hero Syndrome|superhero]]''ine''}} and {{spoiler|ogling [[Perky Goth]] form in a mirror}}, he may have found this already.
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