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* Despite being a serial [[Gender Bender]] herself, Hildy Johnson, the protagonist of [[John Varley]]'s ''Steel Beach'' insists that there are still "girl things" and "boy things" when it comes to dress and behavior, because otherwise there would be little point in changing gender in the first place. This serves to underscore that [[Easy Sex Change]] has become so easy in Hildy's world (you can get a sex change in a beauty shop or a tattoo parlor) that some people are willing to change sex just to facilitate a relationship or even just to suit their clothes.
* Initially played straight in Justin Lieber's ''Beyond Rejection'' as required by a masquerade; justified later when it's revealed that the "masquerade" was actually part of an [[All Just a Dream|artificially-induced therapeutic dream]] intended to enable the protagonist to adapt to an involuntary [[Gender Bender]].
* [[Virginia Woolf]] had...strong but hard to codify opinions about gender expression, but they result in [[Orlando:
** After leaving the gypsies, of course. Which is a bit of a [[Did Not Do the Research]], since the Rom tend to have serious taboos associated with womanhood, and a Romany encampment is ''not'' the best place to be if you're menstruating for the first time at thirty.
* ''[[The Marvelous Land of Oz (Literature)|The Marvelous Land of Oz]]'': After Tip is turned back into Princess Ozma, he instantly transforms from a fairly rambunctious boy to an exceedingly girly girl. However, given the date of publication (1903) it's highly unlikely anything else would have been considered acceptable.
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** Sort of subverted with Phase, who changes from a boy to a girl's form and proceeds to fight tooth and nail against it (despite his guardians' insistence that he embrace the change). On the other hand, Phase ''does'' still have male genitalia, something he doesn't even try to hide it, and goes out of his way to announce his still-a-male-ness to everyone he meets. It isn't just out of insecurity of acceptance. He really is still male. Not only is Phase more comfortable with masculine genders, the omniscient narrator, when it switches, uses 'he' to refer to Phase, and it is written by Phase's author.
*** It doesn't help that events tend to conspire to force Phase to pretend to be a girl. In ''Ayla and the Grinch'', Phase is ''very'' unhappy with Grace forcing him to hide in a girl's beauty pageant. He doesn't go along with it until he sees that it's a serious attempt to hide him from the police and not another attempt of Grace's to get him to embrace his physical changes.
** Largely subverted with Bladedancer too. She's fully female, and still wants to go back to being a boy. She dresses as close to boyish as she can get away with in what amounts to a [[Super
** So the rule holds for Chaka and Generator (who were transgendered before they changed) and Fey (who has a female spirit in her head helping her to become feminine). But it fails for Phase and Bladedancer and Jobe. And it's really mixed with Tennyo, who just doesn't seem to care, and Carmilla, who doesn't really have a human viewpoint anymore.
* In the ''[[Paradise]]'' setting, humans are randomly, permanently changed into [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]] (with some experiencing a gender-change at the same time). Some of these stories feature involuntarily feminized characters receiving a [[Girliness Upgrade]] (because [[The Mind Is a Plaything of The Body]]) and throwing themselves into it all the way.
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