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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' features a DoubleSubversion; a trans woman can't perform magic restricted to women... but this turns out to be because the specific deity providing that specific magic is behind the times and refuses to allow it.[[note]]Or ''can't'', due to the rules and limits it seemingly set for itself; this becomes, along with the concept of "rules" in general and the ability or lack thereof to break them, a fairly relevant plot point later.[[/note]] [[spoiler: Even after Wanda dies and her parents bury her under her dead name in men's clothes, her spirit appears as a woman and {{Death}} (who's been around a smidge longer than life has existed in the universe[[note]]by contrast, the aforementioned goddess exists primarily thanks to ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve[[/note]]) acknowledges her as such.]]

One of the most basic things to acknowledge about {{transgender}} rights is the simple phrase "transgender women are women, transgender men are men, and nonbinary people are outside that binary" (or variations thereof). A great deal of TransTribulations come about from characters (or in the worst cases, [[OnceAcceptableTargets the narrative itself]]) refusing to acknowledge this. While society has largely begun to accept trans people, to the point where a character who deliberately misgenders someone is likely to be unsympathetic, shutting them down with a complicated sociology lecture would rather slow down the plot ([[AnAesop unless it is the plot, of course]]).

One of the most basic things to acknowledge about {{transgender}} rights is the simple phrase "transgender women are women, transgender men are men, and nonbinary people are outside that binary" (or variations thereof). A great deal of TransTribulations come about from characters (or in the worst cases, [[OnceAcceptableTargets the narrative itself]]) refusing to acknowledge this. While society has largely begun to accept trans people, to the point where a character who misgenders someone is likely to be unsympathetic, shutting them down with a complicated sociology lecture would rather slow down the plot ([[AnAesop unless it is the plot, of course]]).

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* Space Dredd of ''Webcomic/ValAndIsaac'' once avoid being hexed because a deadname doesn't count as [[IKnowYourTrueName true name]] for the purpose of curses (she chose her name after she'd began using Space Dredd as an alias, so only her and her [[HasTwoMommies mums]] know it). As a result, a Warlock who went out of the way to find her birth certificate was wasting his time.

* Space Dredd of ''Webcomic/ValAndIsaac'' once avoid being hexed because a deadname doesn't count as [[IKnowYourTrueName true name]] for the purpose of curses (she chose her name after she'd began using Space Dredd as an alias, so only her and her [[HasTwoMommies mums]] know it).

*  Kiyoharu from ''Manga/MahouShoujoSite'' is allowed to be a MagicalGirl by the titular website because kids at school bully her for being transgender.

* The {{Franchise/Disgaea}} series features a species of female presenting plant creatures called Flora Beasts, and a minor RunningGag throughout the series is that they (or some of them at least) are biologically male. However, certain evilities affect units differently based on their gender, and Flora Beasts are all treated as female by these. There is also an evility any character can use that simply causes them to count as the opposite sex for all gameplay purposes, and can be swapped in or out as easily as flipping a light switch; apparently in the Netherworld your gender is purely a matter of your opinion.

* In ''{{Exalted}}'' third edition, one of the benefits of Lunar exaltation is that your default human form shifts to one that reflects your true self. Several trans Lunars are mentioned, including longstanding character Admiral Leviathan.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': The genderfluid character Tedd once [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1550 appears]] in a female body when [[AstralProjection astrally projecting]], and [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1941 later]] has a bout of PowerIncontinence when his {{Sex Shift|er}}ing magic spontaneously changes his body to match his preferred gender in the moment. Susan was also able to [[PervertRevengeMode summon a hammer]] in Tedd's defence.

* ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' introduces Dreamer (billed as the first trans superhero in a major TV series), played by [[QueerCharacterQueerActor trans actress]] Creator/NicoleMaines. In her backstory, it's revealed that she felt able to come out and transition after her [[DreamingOfThingsToCome oneiromantic]] powers manifested, as they only appear in women of her species.

* ''Fanfic/MagicalMetamorphosis'' [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12507814/1/Magical-Metamorphosis]] opens with the Potter child (who at this point hasn't actually figured out that she's trans) passing unaffected through the no-boys-allowed ward on the Gryffindor girls' dorm, much to the confusion of Ron and Hermione.

* This is OlderThanTelevision (at a bare minimum). [[https://www.publicmedievalist.com/tg-fairy-tale/ The Romanian folktale "The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy"]] (adapted by Jules Brun in the French anthology ''Seven Romanian Tales'' in 1894, then translated and adapted to English by Leonora Blanche Alleyne and Andrew Lang in their 1901 anthology ''The Violet Fairy Book'') describes how, needing to give his conqueror a "son" to serve as a knight, a conquered king who had only daughters sent them instead, requiring them to dress and act as men. His youngest, Fet-Fruners, took to it with aplomb and went on a series of daring quests. Then one day a quest put her in conflict with a hermit guarding a church from which she stole some holy water, who prayed that she be cursed with a GenderBender.
-->"But punishments are things about which people do not always agree, and when the princess suddenly felt she was really the man she had pretended to be, she was delighted, and if the hermit had only been within reach she would have thanked him from her heart."

* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', Switch was originally planned to appear as a man in the real world, but a woman in the Matrix itself (to the point of being portrayed by two different actors in each), implying some sort of gender identity gulf and raising questions on what was their real form. The final film largely cut this subplot out in favor of an androgynous appearance (and there's a ShrugOfGod on whether it's still canon), but [[spoiler:their final words]] "No, not like this!" certainly harken back to it.

* ''Series/TheChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'' has a scene where Roz's grandmother, a BlindSeer, greets [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity Susie Putnam]] as "a handsome fella." Roz is quick to correct her, but Susie seems to take it as a compliment.

** The second novel features an inversion, where a transphobe's sense of being "normal" is invalidated instead. [[spoiler: Greywych (an AlphaBitch modelled after "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Trans Exclusive Radical Feminists]]" in the first novel, and an outright antagonist in the second) casts a spell to [[{{Gendercide}} kill off "men"]]; by her definition, anyone with a Y chromosome. She almost dies when she casts the spell and Danny theorizes that it's because she's a cis woman with a Y chromosome and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_insensitivity_syndrome androgen insensitivity]], though Greywych insists that it's just because of the spell being so powerful she was CastingFromHitpoints.]]

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': The genderfluid character Tedd once [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1550 appears]] in a female body when [[AstralProjection astrally projecting]], and [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1941 later]] has a bout of PowerIncontinence when his {{Sex Shift|er}}ing magic spontaneously changes his body to match his preferred gender in the moment.

** The second novel features an inversion, where a transphobe's sense of being "normal" is invalidated instead. [[spoiler: Greywych (an AlphaBitch modelled after "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Trans Exclusive Radical Feminists]]" in the first novel, and an outright antagonist in the second) casts a spell to [[{{Gendercide}} kill off "men"]]; by her definition, anyone with a Y chromosome. It turns out that she's a cis woman with a Y chromosome and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_insensitivity_syndrome androgen insensitivity]], [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard meaning she almost dies as well]].]]

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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' features a DoubleSubversion; a trans woman can't perform magic restricted to women...but this turns out to be because the specific deity providing that specific magic is behind the times and refuses to allow it.[[note]]Or ''can't'', due to the rules and limits it seemingly set for itself; this becomes, along with the concept of "rules" in general and the ability or lack thereof to break them, a fairly relevant plot point later.[[/note]] [[spoiler: Even after Wanda dies and her parents bury her under her dead name in men's clothes, her spirit appears as a woman and {{Death}} (who's been around a smidge longer than life has existed in the universe[[note]]by contrast, the aforementioned goddess exists primarily thanks to ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve[[/note]]) acknowledges her as such.]]

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* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', Switch was originally planned to appear as a man in the real world, but a woman in the Matrix itself (to the point of being portrayed by two different actors in each), implying some sort of gender identity gulf and raising questions on what was their real form. The final film largely cut this subplot out in favour of an androgynous appearance (and there's a ShrugOfGod on whether it's still canon), but [[spoiler: their final words]] "No, not like this!" certainly harken back to it.

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One of the most basic things to acknowledge about {{transgender}} rights is the simple phrase "transgender women are women, transgender men are men, and nonbinary people are outside that binary" (or variations thereof). A great deal of TransTribulations come about from characters (or in the worst cases, [[OnceAcceptableTargets the narrative itself]]) refusing to acknowledge this. While society has largely began to accept trans people, to the point where a character who misgenders someone is likely to be unsympathetic, shutting them down with a complicated sociology lecture would rather slow down the plot ([[AnAesop unless it is the plot, of course]]).

Often the source of a ProphecyTwist (the child of a trans man can say they're NoManOfWomanBorn just as easily as someone born via [[Theatre/{{MacBeth}} caesarian section]]). Contrast UnsettlingGenderReveal, which typically carries the implication that a character's presented gender was a deception of some sort and compare SamusIsAGirl (which plays with expectations of a character's gender when it hasn't yet been revealed; typically the assumption that a given character's a man). Not to be confused with GenderBender, which might be positive for a trans character[[note]]Although this wouldn't technically be a change of gender[[/note]], but doesn't, on its own, confirm or deny their inherent sense of their own gender.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' features a DoubleSubversion; a trans woman can't perform magic restricted to women...but this turns out to be because the specific deity providing that specific magic is behind the times and refuses to allow it[[note]](or ''can't'', due to the rules and limits it seemingly set for itself; this becomes, along with the concept of "rules" in general and the ability or lack thereof to break them, a fairly relevant plot point later)[[/note]]. [[spoiler: Even after Wanda dies and her parents bury her under her dead name in men's clothes, her spirit appears as a woman and {{Death}} (who's been around a smidge longer than life has existed in the universe[[note]]by contrast, the aforementioned goddess exists primarily thanks to ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve[[/note]]) acknowledges her as such.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' features a DoubleSubversion; a trans woman can't perform magic restricted to women...but this turns out to be because the specific deity providing that specific magic is behind the times and refuses to allow it[[note]](or ''can't'', due to the rules and limits it seemingly set for itself; this becomes, along with the concept of "rules" in general and the ability or lack thereof to break them, a fairly relevant plot point later[[/note]]. [[spoiler: Even after Wanda dies and her parents bury her under her dead name in men's clothes, her spirit appears as a woman and {{Death}} (who's been around a smidge longer than life has existed in the universe[[note]]by contrast, the aforementioned goddess exists primarily thanks to ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve[[/note]]) acknowledges her as such.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' features a DoubleSubversion; a trans woman can't perform magic restricted to women...but this turns out to be because the specific deity providing that specific magic is behind the times and refuses to allow it. [[spoiler: Even after Wanda dies and her parents bury her under her dead name in men's clothes, her spirit appears as a woman and {{Death}} (who's been around a smidge longer than life has existed in the universe[[note]]by contrast, said goddess exists only thanks to ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve[[/note]]) acknowledges her as such.]]

Indexes:
* QueerAsTropes
* GenderBlendingTropes
* HomophobiaIndex
* TruthAndLies -- Tropes of Truth section
* ParanormalTropes

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