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* ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'': Several cards depict a journey of a group of climbers up the mountain of Targon. Tyari the Traveler starts out with masculine voice lines, and according to WordOfGod identifying as non-binary. At the peak, they ask the Arbiter to witness their true self. In the end, they transform into a Celestial - The Traveler, with a fully feminine voice and identity. Several other characters acknowledge the two as the same person - mundane people see a vague resemblance, while other magical sages recognize the transition in full, referencing the interactions they had with Tyari while speaking with The Traveler. And if you play both Tyari and The Traveler, she'll give her past self some extra encouragement for the journey.

** Dragons have an event known as "Visage Day" where they're taught to control their VoluntaryShapeshifting and settle on the mortal disguise they'll default to when they need to disguise themselves. ''Folks and Fairy Tales of Azeroth'' describes how this was the day where Chromie, who has always stood out for her GenderBlenderName [[note]] Male Bronze dragons have names ending in -ormu, females end in -ormi, and Chromie's real name is Chronormu, originally this was because she was named before the gendered naming schemes for dragons were settled on, but retconned into being because she was born male[[/note]] chose a female form to reflect her true self. This apparently had the effect of even making her draconic form transition to biologically female as well.

* The final arc of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' centers around the Diamonds attempting to reunite with Steve’s late mother Rose Quartz [[spoiler:formerly their family member Pink Diamond]]. In a manner allegorical to a family struggling with their child or sibling transitioning, they refuse to believe that Steven is not Rose Quartz anymore, insisting on dressing him like Rose and addressing him by her old name. White Diamond eventually goes so far as to [[spoiler:pull out Steven’s Gem, thinking this will force her daughter to manifest herself. But instead the separated Gem turns into a pure light version of Steven, who emotionlessly declares that Rose/Pink is gone forever. The Diamonds are shocked, but Steven is extremely relieved to learn that he is himself all along and not a reincarnation of his mother.]]

* Literature/RiversOfLondon: a minor character, pre-transition, was identified as his preferred gender when his husband stumbles into a prophetic ability.

* RiversOfLondon: a minor character, pre-transition, was identified as his preferred gender when his husband stumbles into a prophetic ability.

* In ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles'', only the women in Lord Fanny's family can become shamans. Fortunately for Fanny, transwomen qualify.

One of the most basic things to acknowledge about UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} rights is the simple fact that people are the gender they say they are. A lot 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 far more likely than not to be unsympathetic (and yeah, it's a low bar, but it's progress), shutting them down with a complicated sociology lecture would rather slow down the plot ([[AnAesop unless it is the plot, of course]]).

* Space Dread of ''Webcomic/ValAndIsaac'' once avoided being hexed because a deadname doesn't count as [[IKnowYourTrueName true name]] for the purpose of curses (she chose her name after she'd begun using Space Dread as an alias, so only her and her [[HasTwoMommies mums]] know it). [[https://val-and-isaac.tumblr.com/post/183017744517 As a result]], a Warlock who went out of the way to find her birth certificate was wasting his time; as shown in the page image, all it did was earn him a BoomHeadshot.

* ''Manga/MagicalGirlSite'': Kiyoharu is allowed to be a MagicalGirl by the titular website (which targets troubled girls) because kids at school bully her for being transgender. It's later revealed that men ''can'' use Sticks, but this [[spoiler:harms the [[BigBad King]] who runs the website]], so Kiyoharu wouldn't have have been given one if she was considered male in this respect.

** ''Fanfic/KaleidoscopicGrangers'': Ariadne is concerned on a semi-frequent basis by how the world will see her -- not just the people, but magic itself. But not only do the stairs to the girls' dorm (and by extension Hogwarts herself) accept Ariadne as a girl, but in book 4, so does a unicorn.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7603977/1/Genma-s-Daughter Genma's Daughter]]'' is a complicated case, as in this timeline, [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] actually was born a girl, was changed into a boy as an infant when a drunken Genma asks [[JerkassGenie Happosai]] into helping him get an heir to marry to one of Soun's kids. After realizing how badly he screwed up, he intentionally takes Ranma to Jusenkyo to try to fix the problem, but treated Ranma as a boy in a misguided attempt to help Ranma cope with being a boy. Where this trope comes into play is when using a temporary lock to let Ranma, or rather, Ranko, experience being a girl without the pressure of random changes. The change degrades Happosai's spell, and since Ranko's curse transforms her into a girl (Cologne even states that the curse was really attached to the spell, not Ranko directly), once Happi's spell collapses, the curse goes with it, leaving Ranko permanently a girl.

* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': In volume 2, Pete Reston turns out to have a magical trait called Reversi that causes him to [[GenderBender switch his biological sex]] overnight. He still identifies as male for the moment, but alludes to having experienced possible dysphoric episodes. The Kimberly WizardingSchool turns out to have a [[JapaneseSchoolClub student club]] for mages with gender- and sex-linked magic, which agender upperclassman Carlos Whitrow founded and invites Pete to join. Whitrow themself was assigned male at birth but magically neutered in order to serve as an effective minder to Ophelia Salvatori, who SmellsSexy to biological males; Whitrow's gender identity conveniently worked well with this.

* ''Literature/VigorMortis'': Vita meets a male crime boss, notices that he seems rather slender with a feminine voice, and consistently refers to him as male while yelling and berating him. She is rather confused when he claims that she has been extremely respectful. It's implied several times that the crime boss is a trans man (and he certainly doesn't have money for surgery or cosmetic biomancy), so he has to deal with constant misgendering, and was happily surprised that Vita didn't. By this point Vita mostly identifies people by their souls, so it never occurred to her that he was anything but male. She also mentions that most people's souls don't actually have a strong gender identity one way or the other, while there are some who are explicitly neither (which is why she uses gender-neutral pronouns on the hunter Song).

* [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1990654819/shield-maidens-a-new-viking-cyberpunk-tabletop-rpg/description Shield Maidens]] are always women but the goddess Freyja doesn't care if they happen to have Y chromosomes when she chooses them. In addition the Godblind plague that the Fenris Empire uses to enforce the setting's WeirdnessCensor primarily affects men, women are resistant and due to the supernatural aspects of the plague one's spirit matters more than biology.

** Susan is able to summon a [[HyperspaceMallet hammer]] in Tedd's defence, a power that's designed only to work on behalf of women. While this was originally played as joke about Tedd being '[[DudeLooksLikeALady just that girly]]', Tedd later realizes they are genderfluid (After they learn that being transgender, or genderfluid, is a thing that exists outside of transformation magic).

* The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' universe comes with two convenient ways of employing this trope: unicorns and the Hogwarts dormitories. Unicorns tend to like women and dislike men, and the Hogwarts girls' dormitories have been enchanted to keep boys out. As a result, many ''Harry Potter'' fics that feature a transgender protagonist will use these to validate the character's gender -- the most commonly seen one is a trans girl discovering that she can enter the girls' dormitories with no problem, but it's also pretty common to see her being accepted by a unicorn.

* ''Fanfic/MagicalMetamorphosis'' 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.
* ''Fanfic/NewBloodArtemisgirl'': "Amanda" Barrows[[note]]currently referred to with her birth name and she/her pronouns because she has not yet requested otherwise[[/note]] finds herself barred from the Ravenclaw girls' dorm for reasons she doesn't quite understand, but include it lacking a bed for her -- but when Hermione finds an extra bed in the ''boys[='=]'' dorm, she admits to having never liked being a girl and being terrified of the onset of puberty.[[note]]This references an incident in one of the middle ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books where Harry and Ron try to talk to Hermione in the girls' dorm, only for the stairs to turn into a slide and dump them back down to the bottom. The DoubleStandard that the stairs don't care if a ''girl'' visits the ''[=boys'=]'' dorm is promptly {{lampshaded}}.[[/note]] Hermione, hearing about this, takes it to the logical extreme and asks Snape for a place that would forbid girls and allow boys, and indeed the Quidditch boys' locker room allows Amanda in while forbidding Hermione. [[spoiler:And it is strongly implied that ''both'' locker rooms let Luna in, setting off a gender exploration arc centered on her.]]

* ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOK'': During a Care of Magical Creatures lesson, Transgender student Samantha Ackerley (formerly Stewart) successfully bonds with a unicorn (a creature that is more comfortable in the presence of females than males). Professor Kettleburn even reassures her that her initial fears of being rejected are unfounded.
* ''Fanfic/KaleidoscopicGrangers'': Ariadne is concerned on a semi-frequent basis by how the world will see her -- not just the people, but magic itself. But not only do the stairs to the girls' dorm (and by extension Hogwarts herself) accept Ariadne as a girl, but in book 4, so does a unicorn.

* The bloodline powers of the New Orleans witch families in ''Webcomic/Muted'' only manifest in their daughters, but this is entirely based in self-identification. A transgender woman from a witch family will gain powers when she presents as herself, while a transgender man will lose them. Genderfluid and nonbinary witches are a bit more complex, as their powers fluctuate based on how they're presenting at any given time, and many have to undergo rituals/wear special items to keep their powers in check.

Enter this trope: some aspect of the setting confirms that a trans person is as much the gender they present (or even [[ComingOutStory the gender they've yet to present as]]) as a cisgender person of the same gender. This might be as simple as a ResidualSelfImage or [[TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf mirror]] showing their true self, something subtler like having access to a GenderRestrictedAbility or MagicalSeventhSon[=/=]Daughter powers, or as complex as them fulfilling a role in a prophecy. It can also apply to more "meta" validations, such as being treated as the correct gender by game mechanics. While it's become more common in TheNewTens (thanks to an increase in stories being written about, and by, trans people), examples can be found in folklore.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' features a DoubleSubversion; a trans woman can't perform magic restricted to women... but this turns out to be because the [[ReligionIsMagic 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 [[TheGrimReaper 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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* ''LightNovel/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': In volume 2, Pete Reston turns out to have a magical trait called Reversi that causes him to [[GenderBender switch his biological sex]] overnight. He still identifies as male for the moment, but alludes to having experienced possible dysphoric episodes. The Kimberly WizardingSchool turns out to have a [[JapaneseSchoolClub student club]] for mages with gender- and sex-linked magic, which agender upperclassman Carlos Whitrow founded and invites Pete to join. Whitrow themself was assigned male at birth but magically neutered in order to serve as an effective minder to Ophelia Salvatori, who SmellsSexy to biological males; Whitrow's gender identity conveniently worked well with this.

* ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}'': Primary villain Apos is an intersex {{hermaphrodite}} who describes himself as both male and female when this fact is revealed (the show still uses male pronouns for him). As a carrier of one of Yggdrasil's time fruits, he consequently has a combination of masculine and feminine powers: he has female carriers' immortality and lucidity, and male carriers' feathered wings and ability to arouse immortal women with his mere presence.

* ''LightNovel/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': In volume 2, Pete Reston turns out to have a magical trait called Reversi that causes him to [[GenderBender switch his biological sex]] overnight. He still identifies as male for the moment, but alludes to having experienced possible dysphoric episodes. The Kimberly WizardingSchool turns out to have a [[JapaneseSchoolClub student club]] for mages with gender- and sex-linked magic, which agender upperclassman Carlos Whitrow founded and invites Pete to join. Whitrow themself was assigned male at birth but magically neutered in order to serve as an effective minder to Ophelia Salvatori, who SmellsSexy to biological males; Whitrow's gender identity conveniently worked well with this.

* ''Literature/TheCosmere'': In ''Literature/{{Dawnshard}}'' a new Radiant, an afab king of the Reshi Isles in fact, begins to undergo "dramatic changes" almost immediately. This is implied to be, and confirmed by WordOfGod as, Stormlight "healing" his female body to match his gender. Magical healing in the Cosmere works by matching the physical self to the ideal spiritual self, so it follows that most forms of healing magic would be capable of this.
* 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. [[{{Unishment}} The prince(ss) is overjoyed]] and the narrative switches to using masculine pronouns for Fet-Fruners almost immediately, and in short order he overthrows the evil emperor, marries a noblewoman he rescued earlier in the story, and lives HappilyEverAfter.
* Inverted with Elise Kavanaugh in ''Literature/TheDescentSeries''. She's externally female and identifies as such. However, she's the only woman on record to be a kopis (demon-slayer and exorcist), which appears to be tied to the fact that (as revealed in book two when she visits a gynecologist in a flashback) she's intersex: she has an XY chromosome pair and an androgen insensitivity disorder. It's a touchy subject for her, as her boyfriend Anthony finds out the hard way.

* The plot of ''Literature/CemeteryBoys'' revolves around Yadriel's desire to become a brujo, but his family won't let him because their magic is gender specific (women heal, men help spirits pass on). His family is convinced he'll be let down if he tries brujo magic because they don't think he's a real man, and refuse to let him try. Cue Yadriel going behind their backs to prove them wrong and kickstarting the plot when he successfully summons a spirit.

** Soon after realizing they are genderfluid, this is more solidly enforced when Tedd realizes they have a magic mark granted to them by an Immortal, which grants powers based on affinity, personality, and desire. Tedd's gives them the ability to change their default biological sex, either at will or simply when their perception of their gender shifts. Luckily, Tedd is so androgynous already that it's generally hard to notice the difference unless someone really looks at their chest.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Susan is able to summon a [[HyperspaceMallet hammer]] in Tedd's defence, a power that's designed only to work on behalf of women. While this was originally played as joke about Tedd being '[[DudeLooksLikeALady just that girly]]', Tedd later realizes they are genderfluid. After they learn that being transgender, or genderfluid, is a thing that exists outside of transformation magic.

* The Kyrian of Bastion in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' undergo trials and rituals to cleanse themselves of their previous mortal lives to eventually become their idealized selves to serve as [[{{Psychopomp}} the ones to ferry souls into the Shadowlands]]. Who or what you were before you died does not matter, and whatever body you choose is entirely your choice. Pelagos, a Kyrian Aspirant, was born and died as a woman while never feeling truly comfortable as a woman. Upon becoming an Aspirant, Pelagos took a male body and identity, feeling truly himself for the first time.

* In ''VideoGame/HuniePop2'', the HunieBee [[ItMakesSenseInContext magical dating app]] initially takes a moment longer to load in Polly's profile than those of the definitively cisgender girls, but quickly recognises that she belongs in the system.