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* ''{{YuYu Hakusho}}'': Yusuke figures that there's something a little off about a certain FemmeFatale opponent, so he pulls a reach-around mid-fight and finds that she's a man, and is [[strike: just using his feminine appearance to stop chivalrous fighters from hitting him]] trying and failing to be transsexual.
** In the EditedForSyndication American dub, all the references to the [[DudeLooksLikeALady female fighter actually being a man]] were changed to the fighter being a ManipulativeBitch who fakes her injuries so she can make her male fighters feel guilty about beating up a woman -- and uses that moment of weakness to strike back.
* The young [[DragonBall Goku]] had difficulty with the concept of males and females, so when meeting someone, he goes up and slaps his hand in the person's crotchular area, then triumphantly exclaims, "You're a boy/girl!" Notably, this causes Chi-Chi to ''push him off the Kinto'un in fright''!
** Kulilin managed to escape the treatment just by telling him beforehand that he's male.
* In season 2, episode 6 of ''GirlsBravo'' Fukuyama doesn't realize a cross-dressing Yukinari is actually a guy until after he grabs his crotch.
** Of course, in this case, he hadn't doubted that Yukinari was female yet.
* This happens to Takatsuki, a female-to-male {{Transsexual}}, in ''WanderingSon'' once. It's {{Squick}}y being that she was around ''eleven'' then and the person who did it was an adult male (who later became her friend).
* In ''FushigiYuugi'', Miaka rubs Hotohori's chest after finding out that Hotohori [[DudeLooksLikeALady was not a girl]]. She does it again with another character...just to be sure.

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* As quoted above, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qikTu76Yo8 this]] Party Quirks game of ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' has a humorous version.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2oqBO1K4pU This skit]] from WhoseLineIsItAnyway.

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* MostTriumphantExample: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2oqBO1K4pU This skit]] from WhoseLineIsItAnyway.

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* Hemlock, resident VoluntaryShapeshifting SweetPollyOliver of the ''{{PPC}}'', had this problem when a girl recognised him as an ineptly-disguised female:
-->"You walk wrong! You talk wrong! And I don't know what you used for padding but it looks totally fake-"
-->"OW!"
-->"... Oh. My mistake, it's real."

* This happens to Takatsuki, a male-to-female {{Transsexual}}, in ''WanderingSon'' once. It's {{Squick}}y being that she was around ''eleven'' then and the person who did it was an adult.

* An accidental example occurs in ''{{Drowtales}}'' when [[SweetPollyOliver Ariel]] is in a fighting class and another student goes for the groin, [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=208&overview=1&chibi=1&cover=1&extra=1&page=1&check=1 only to discover that what he expects to be there isn't]]. This alerts him that something is up and later outs her as a girl. %%Chapter 02 page 075%%

* An accidental example occurs in ''{{Drowtales}}'' when [[SweetPollyOliver Ariel]] is in a fighting class and another student goes for the groin, [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=209 only to discover that what he expects to be there isn't]]. This alerts him that something is up and later outs her as a girl. %%Chapter 02 page 075%%

* This happens to Takatsuki, a male-to-female {{Transsexual}}, in ''WanderingSon'' once. It's {{Squick}}y being that he was around ''eleven'' then and the person who did it was an adult.

* In ''{{Casanova}}'', Casanova falls in love with Bellino, a male opera singer. He suspects that he's a girl and confronts him. He feels his chest and concludes that he's a girl. Bellino says it is a singer's condition. Casanova grabs his crotch and then runs off, he is a boy. Then later he comes back and tells him it doesn't matter and he still loves him. Turns out to be a false penis and a woman in disguise.

* ''{{YuYu Hakusho}}'': Yusuke figures that there's something a little off about a certain FemmeFatale opponent, so he pulls a reach-around mid-fight and finds that she's a man, and is [[strike: just using his feminine appearance to stop chivalrous fighters from hitting him]] trying and failing to be transsexual.
** In the EditedForSyndication American dub, all the references to the [[DudeLooksLikeALady female fighter actually being a man]] were changed to the fighter being a ManipulativeBitch who fakes her injuries so she can make her male fighters feel guilty about beating up a woman -- and uses that moment of weakness to strike back.
* ''MetalGearSolid2'': The president is a friendly guy. So friendly, in fact, that upon meeting bishounen hero Raiden, he decides to greet Raiden with a friendly cup check to make sure he's not a chick.
** An extremely elongated, gentle cup check. You know you've been playing Metal Gear too long when things like that stop seeming strange.
** The above picture is a [[HiimDaisy fan]]'s version of this very scene.
-->'''Raiden:''' YOU ARE THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER.
* There was a similar example to the ''MetalGearSolid 2'' example in ''3'': Volgin grabs Ivan's ([[spoiler:or Big Boss']]) crotch to check not just the gender, but whether it's genuinely Ivan.
** That's because the man knows his crotches.
* The young [[DragonBall Goku]] had difficulty with the concept of males and females, so when meeting someone, he goes up and slaps his hand in the person's crotchular area, then triumphantly exclaims, "You're a boy/girl!" Notably, this causes Chi-Chi to ''push him off the Kinto'un in fright''!
** Kulilin managed to escape the treatment just by telling him beforehand that he's male.
* ''CrocodileDundee'' has Mick flirting with a veiled woman. The cab driver he's been getting drunk with informs him that it's a man. Mick walks right up and checks the crotch for the frank and beans. "She", offended, stalks off. Later in the movie, Mick sees another rather ...handsome... woman and does it again. To his chagrin (and her delight), she's the real thing.
* In one episode of ''LawAndOrderSVU'', the investigators discover that the boyfriend of the perp [[DroppedABridgetOnHim didn't know she was a preop transsexual]] when they tell him why she killed his best friend. He rushes in, grabs her crotch to see if it's true, and then overdoses on pills.
* As quoted above, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qikTu76Yo8 this]] Party Quirks game of WhoseLineIsItAnyway has a humorous version.
* An accidental example occurs in ''{{Drowtales}}'' when [[SweetPollyOliver Ariel]] is in a fighting class and another student goes for the groin, [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=209 only to discover that what he expects to be there isn't]]. This alerts him that something is up and later outs her as a girl. %%Chapter 02 page 075%%
* Less invasive variant in ''{{Bones}}'' where the sex of an androgynous Japanese detective is determined by a firm hug.

* Pat from SaturdayNightLive narrowly averted this a few times.
* In some productions of {{Cabaret}}, this is how the MC tells Victor and Bobby apart. (Maybe Bobby is really a girl?)
* In season 2, episode 6 of ''GirlsBravo'' Fukuyama doesn't realize a cross-dressing Yukinari is actually a guy until after he grabs his crotch.
* The ''sedes stercoraria'' are seats upon which a new pope is enthroned, which have a hole in seat. A popular rumor says that these are so that the college of cardinals can test if the new pope is in fact male, or if he has mangled genitals. Most historians now believe that they were just chairs that the Papacy used because they belonged to the Imperial family.

* In one of Kate's pre-AwkwardZombie [[http://hail-nekoyasha.deviantart.com/gallery/#/de5sim strips]], [[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Link]] decides to try this on Sheik ForScience. Unfortunately, since he actually used a GroinAttack, it didn't prove anything.
* In {{Casanova}}, Casanova falls in love with Bellino, a male opera singer. He suspects that he's a girl and confronts him. He feels his chest and concludes that he's a girl. Bellino says it is a singer's condition. Casanova grabs his crotch and then runs off, he is a boy. Then later he comes back and tells him it doesn't matter and he still loves him. Turns out to be a false penis and a woman in disguise.
* In the Aidan Chambers book ''Postcards from No-Man's Land'' the main character meets someone he assumes is a girl, and they have coffee. At the end of the meeting, the "girl" figures out that the main character thinks this, and grabs the main character's hand and puts it on his crotch before leaving.

* The young [[DragonBall Goku]] had difficulty with the concept of males and females, so when meeting someone, he goes up and slaps his hand in the person's crotchular area, then triumphantly exclaims, "You're a boy/girl!"

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Let's say you've got a GenderBender on your hands. Either the DudeLooksLikeALady or a girl skirts the line of {{Bifauxnen}}. The mystery is driving you [[IncrediblyLamePun nuts]], so what's the fastest way to figure it out?

* The young [[DragonBall Goku]] had difficulty with the concept of males and females, so when meeting someone, he goes up and slaps his hand in the person's crotchular area, then triumphantly exclaims, "You're a boy/girl!"

** Thats because the man knows his crotches.

* As quoted above, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qikTu76Yo8 This]] Party Quirks game of WhoseLineIsItAnyway has a humorous version.

* A Variant to it's most extreme degree, but the purpose was the same. Kate's pre-AwkwardZombie strips [[http://hail-nekoyasha.deviantart.com/gallery/#/de5sim Present Link trying the same test on Sheik, only with a kick. Still didn't prove anything.]]

* Real life example: There was a time in which the newly elected pope had to sit in a chair with a hole in the seat, all of that someone was in charge of this 'test'. This was to ensure the man in question had testicles, because according to scripture people with mangled genitals or eunuchs are not allowed to be priests. Of course, this doesn't stop rumors that a female priest actually existed at some point.

* Less invasive variant in ''{{Bones}}'' where the sex of a androgynous Japanese detective is determined by a firm hug.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qikTu76Yo8 This]] Party Quirks game of WhoseLineIsItAnyway has a humorous version.

* ''{{YuYu Hakusho}}'': Yusuke figures that there's something a little off about a certain FemmeFatale opponent, so he pulls a reach-around mid-fight and finds that she's a man, and is just using his feminine appearance to stop chivalrous fighters from hitting him.

* An accidental example occurs in ''{{Drowtales}}'' when [[SweetPollyOliver Ariel]] is in a fighting class and another student goes for the groin, [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=223 only to discover that what he expects to be there isn't]]. This alerts him that something is up and later outs her as a girl.