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...and with a little bit of luck, change the establishment into one of kindness and tolerance by the time his/her true gender is exposed.

 

 

Compare [[Sweet Polly Oliver]].

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In the first OVA of ''[[El Hazard]]'', after finding himself in another dimension, the main character Makoto is forced to crossdress in order to pose as the missing princess Fatora.

* The manga series ''[[Girl Got Game]]'' is about a high school girl named Kyo Aizawa who disguises herself as a boy in order to join Seisyu High's famous men's basektball team. However, it was her father's idea; she'd rather go to a normal school as a normal girl.

* In ''[[Hana Kimi]]'', a Japanese-American girl wanted so much to meet her idol she decided to enroll the same school he attends. The problem is that he attends an all-boys school. He soon found out and started to like her. The plot point is that he doesn't know she likes him and she thinks he still doesn't know she's a girl. {{spoiler|When rumours start to abound of a girl on campus and her facade starts to crack via various Bridget-droppings, she decides to transfer to a public school while the going's still good, though [[Bittersweet Ending|she and her idol meet up again in college and become an item in the epilogue]].}}

* In [[Marugoto Anju Gakuen]], our protagonist is pretty much ''forced'' to join an all-girl academy for yokais by his mother.

 

* ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Dragon]]'' has a male protagonist who winds up accidentally enrolling in a girls' school because he was trying to hard to pass an entrance exam after failing so many. The other protagonist is a girl through and through, and she finds out in the first episode right before they become the titular magical warriors.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* Amanda Bynes in ''[[She's the Man]]'' (which is a [[Setting Update]] of ''[[Twelfth Night]]'') infiltrates an all boy's soccer team to prove that girls can play soccer just as well.

** And two decades earlier, a girl infiltrates another high school's senior class as a boy to try to prove gender bias in her school's newspaper in ''[[Just One Of The Guys]].'' The fact that her name was Terry didn't hurt. The funny part is, she failed miserably—turns out her writing to start with wasn't very good—but the [[Twelfth Night]] plot helped her to improve.

== [[Literature]] ==

* [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Tortall Universe|Song of the Lioness]]'' series starts as a more dramatic example of this plot, though Alanna's gender gets revealed at roughly the halfway mark.

* The male protagonist of ''[[A Planet Called Treason]]'' develops breasts due to a genetic disorder and parleys it into the opportunity to infiltrate an all-female society.

 

== [[Theatre]] ==

 

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