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In fiction, [['''Trans Nature]]''' can take ''any'' form, especially in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Note that trying to regain your true form (after having been cursed, for example) does not count. Starting to identify with your new form does, however.

When a character is a fictional kind of [['''Trans Nature]]''', it is often a big part of this character being a hero or villain: Either he's a member of a oppressive/evil group transitioning to become one of the good and/or oppressed people, or we have a "[[Category Traitor|traitor]]" who identifies with the "wrong" group.

It can also work as an inversion of [[Internalized Categorism]]: Bob thinks men/humans are bad, but instead of denying himself the good things about being a man/human or doing bad things because he thinks that this is what being a "real" man/human means, he instead ''stop'' being a man/human -- magicallyhuman—magically changing into something else.

May be caused by [[Humanity Is Infectious]], or inversions thereof. In some cases, [['''Trans Nature]]''' leads to [[Humanity Ensues]]. Note however that that trope is usually ''not'' combined with [['''Trans Nature]]''' - instead, the animal resents having been transformed to a human. One very common form of [['''Trans Nature]]''' is [[Pinocchio Syndrome]]: A robot, living doll or whatever wanting to become a real human.

* Reynard the Fox also appears in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', and true to the myth, he fell in love with a human woman. Rather than shapeshifting, however, he convinced Coyote to grant him the power to possess anything with eyes--andeyes—and he uses it to take the body of a young human male so he can go to the court and woo his beloved...

* There are several versions. For example, [[TranssexualismTransgender|trans]] people are coercively assigned a certain gender at birth that does not match their real gender<ref> Usually due to Intersexuality, ie, physically being in between male and female or not fitting easily into one or the other or on rare occassionsoccasions when something happens to their genitals (ie a botched circumcision). Most often the infants are assigned to be female. The whole situation is [[Flame Bait|very contentious in the Trans community]]</ref> or are simply born in a gender that doesn't match them. There are also religious examples, mostly tied to belief in reincarnation -- sincereincarnation—since men have higher social status, many Hindu and Buddhist women openly hope to be male in the next life, while still having an entirely female gender identity in ''this'' life.