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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.
Note if you're a Japanese
Compare [[Sweet Polly Oliver]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', in which our heroine Haruhi is talked into joining the club and masquerading as a wholesomely sweet boy to cater to their female clientele. It deviates from the usual formula in that her clubmates, at least, are fully aware of the ruse.
** Also in that it's not really Haruhi (who simply has boyish tastes in clothing and hairstyle, and is entirely indifferent to what sex people think she is) trying to maintain the masquerade, but ''everybody around her''.
* ''[[I My Me! Strawberry Eggs]]'' started out as this, with the [[Hot-Blooded]] young teacher trying to prove the tyrannical [[Straw Feminist]] organisation's disdain of men wrong... only to fail bitterly.
* ''[[Otome wa Boku
* In ''[[Maria Holic]]'', the crossdresser in question is actually ''not'' the main character. He is also ''apparently'' a cruel person who cares not one whit about other people.
* 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.
* The manga series ''[[Mint
* 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]].}}
* The manga series ''[[
* In [[Marugoto Anju Gakuen]], our protagonist is pretty much ''forced'' to join an all-girl academy for yokais by his mother.
== [[Fan
* ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* The truly [[Squick
* Amanda Bynes in ''[[
** 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
* Disney's ''[[
** Although one does notice that the character is drawn differently when she pretends to be a man. Look at the movie poster where half of her face is reflected in a sword. Notice her nose and jaw.
** And apparently her eyebrows grew in no time.
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== [[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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