History Main / SupernaturallyValidatedTransPerson

* In ''[[ComicBook/DawnOfDC Spirit World]]'' Volume 2, the nonbinary Xanthe Zhou visits their parents' home. Their mother tries to capture them with binding talismans but they don't work because the talismans use Xanthe's deadname.

* Several ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' fics, such as ''Fanfic/ResonanceDays'', ''Fanfic/TheSoulmateTimeline'', and ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/6726178 Magical Girl]]'' have Kyubey having no problem contracting with trans girls. [[JackassGenie Being Kyubey however, how much of this is a good thing is up to one's own interpretation.]]

* 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, though you occasionally also see examples of a trans boy discovering that he can't. Unicorn reactions are also sometimes used to validate their gender.

** ''Yde et Olive'', a chanson de geste dated to the 13th​ century, has the titular Yde, a princess who flees her [[ParentalIncest incestuous]] father by [[SweetPollyOliver disguising herself as a man]] and travelling to Rome, doing feats as a knight along the way. There she enters the service of the emperor, gains fame, and in reward for her service, is given the emperor's daughter, Olive, in marriage. On their wedding night, Yde evades consuming the marriage, and continues to do so for 15 days, but eventually confesses her secret to Olive, but they are overheard and reported to the emperor, who asks Yde to bath with him as a test and will execute the couple if the deception is proven. After praying, they are saved from execution at the very last minute when an angel appears and Yde is miraculously {{GenderBender}}ed by {{God}} Himself.

* In the medieval story of ''[[https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/abbouchi_mounawar_201508_ma.pdf Ydé and Olive]]'', Ydé is a princess who escapes from [[IncestantAdmirer incestuous harassment by the king]] and goes on the road as a warrior, adopting a male persona that becomes more and more a part of his identity. He eventually participates in the defense of Rome and falls in love with the daughter of the local ruler; she accepts him and keeps his secret, but they are overheard, and the ruler finds out and determines to have him killed. At the last moment when he is about to be exposed to everyone and executed, an angel appears, reveals that his sex has been physically changed, blesses his union with Olive, and is implied to condemn to death the ruler who threatened him. Ydé and Olive go on to conceive a child and live HappilyEverAfter.

-->It’s actually something of a hot topic at MIT&T. KAM might like to attribute it to psychological reactions, but magical theory has found that people who identify as preop transgendered has a slight distortion to their auras. Almost imperceptible, but still there, though it doesn’t seem to affect them, health- or magic-wise. The crazy thing is, procedures to bring them closer to their self-perceived correct state cause this distortion to stabilize. Some people say it’s a matter of self-sabotage or a subconscious side effect of feeling disconnected from your true self, but most of the research done thus far strongly supports that operations aligning the body with the identity of the subject in a non-enhancement way don’t damage their metaphysical self at all. Pretty revolutionary stuff.

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* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10066451/chapters/22431401 Themyscira]]'' is a ''Zootopia'' where men mysteriously disappear. Only a few "men" are left, including Nick. This is because they're closeted trans women, not cis men.

* In the novel ''When Women Were Dragons'', women sometimes [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin spontaneously become dragons]]. The word "transgender" is never used in the novel since it's set in the 1950s, but it's made abundantly clear that trans women are just as prone to becoming dragons as cis women are. Possibly even moreso, since the transformation is hinted but never stated to be a result of women becoming fed up with the patriarchal culture and severe restrictions on gender identity and sexual orientation that are placed on them.

* In the medieval story of ''[[https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/abbouchi_mounawar_201508_ma.pdf Ydé and Olive]]'', Ydé is a princess who escapes from [[IncestantAdmirer incestuous harassment by the king]] and goes on the road as a warrior, adopting a male persona that becomes more and more a part of his identity. He eventually participates in the defence of Rome and falls in love with the daughter of the local ruler; she accepts him and keeps his secret, but they are overheard, and the ruler finds out and determines to have him killed. At the last moment when he is about to be exposed to everyone and executed, an angel appears, reveals that his sex has been physically changed, blesses his union with Olive, and is implied to condemn to death the ruler who threatened him. Ydé and Olive go on to conceive a child and live HappilyEverAfter.

* In ''TabletopGame/FreedomCity'', the Spirit of Liberty chooses a woman each generation to become the superheroic Lady Liberty, protector of freedom. As of third edition, Lady Liberty is a transwoman- [[DownplayedTrope although her powers are slightly different to her cis counterparts, and it's mentioned she's worried this is because she somehow broke the blessing.]]

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': The villain Magne is a trans woman whose quirk allows her to repel the opposite gender from her, her quirk understanding she sees herself as female and thus repelling men.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', Cole (who is a spirit and capable of reading minds) identifies Krem, a trans man, using masculine pronouns. Even the Iron Bull, who is Krem's best friend and from a culture that fully accepts trans people, is surprised that Cole is using Krem's correct pronouns in their conversation.

* 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; all it did was earn him a BoomHeadshot.

* In the medieval story of ''[[https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/abbouchi_mounawar_201508_ma.pdf Ydé and Olive]]'', Ydé is a princess who escapes from [[IncestantAdmirer incestuous harassment by the king]] and goes on the road as a warrior, adopting a male persona that becomes more and more a part of his identity. He eventually participates in the defence of Rome and falls in love with a princess there, only to have his secret revealed. At the last moment when he is about to be exposed to everyone and executed, an angel appears, reveals that his sex has been physically changed, blesses his union with Olive, and is implied to condemn to death the ruler who threatened him. Ydé and Olive go on to conceive a child and live HappilyEverAfter.

* In the medieval story of ''[[https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/abbouchi_mounawar_201508_ma.pdf YdéAndOlive]], Ydé is a princess who escapes from [[IncestantAdmirer incestuous harassment by the king]] and goes on the road as a warrior, adopting a male persona that becomes more and more a part of his identity. He eventually participates in the defence of Rome and falls in love with a princess there, only to have his secret revealed. At the last moment when he is about to be exposed to everyone and executed, an angel appears, reveals that his sex has been physically changed, blesses his union with Olive, and is implied to condemn to death the ruler who threatened him. Ydé and Olive go on to conceive a child and live HappilyEverAfter.

* 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 in ''Webcomic/MagicalBoy'', where trans boy Max gains hereditary MagicalGirl powers from his mother and hates it. This slowly works its way to being played straight, however, as his outfit gradually changes to reflect Max's own feelings and personality and becomes more masculine with each successive transformation. Over the course of a few pages, his dress has become shorter and less sparkly, he's been getting a skirt over slacks, sneakers instead of high-heels, and, in later strips, has become a tunic and pants, along with short, masculine hair. Eventually [[spoiler:his magic wand seemingly snaps but still works fine, once Max realizes this means its actual appearance doesn't matter he resummons it as a magical sword instead.]]

* ''Literature/TheFourProfoundWeaves'': {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. GenderBender magic is explicitly a divine gift that transforms the body to align with the inner self, and is widely respected. It still doesn't prevent prejudice -- the trans male protagonist was LateComingOut due to his partner's disapproval, faces hostility when he visits a patriarchal culture, and sometimes struggles with his new social role.

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 or their adopted name acting as their [[IKnowYourTrueName True Name]], 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.

** 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 a 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).
** 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 gender shifts. Any additional transformations [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2014-09-03 occur relative to the default form at the time]]. Luckily, Tedd is so androgynous already that it's generally hard to notice the initial change unless someone really looks at their chest.

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