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* In ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', Kate, a transgender woman takes her teammate Dorothy to a women-only ritual. Due to the ritual being focused on the menstruation cycle's relation to the divine, Kate assumes she is unable to partake in the event but is happy to be corrected by the priestess who invites her to join the ritual even after learning Kate is unable to menstruate.
* In ''ComicBook/DemonKnights'', the nigh-omniscient Merlin tells Sir Ystin that he can detect two natures within them, confirming that they are genderfluid. Everyone else in the setting treats Ystin as though they are a SweetPollyOliver.

* In ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles'', only the women in Lord Fanny's family can become shamans. Fortunately for Fanny, trans women qualify.
* In ''ComicBook/SpiritWorld2023'' 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.
* The comic book version of ''Literature/SleepingBeauties'' makes it clear that the sleeping plague that affects women also affects trans women, whereas trans men are entirely unaffected.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21812212/chapters/52681903#workskin Go Down With You]]'' has Shen Yuan -- who insisted he wasn't a girl since he's four years old -- being confirmed as a boy when he's unable to go past the wards of [[LadyLand Xian Shu Peak]].
* PlayedWith in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/39628983?view_adult=true Pure Mischief]]'', where Ladybug gives Adrien the Mouse Miraculous. Due to Adrien being [[AdaptationalGenderIdentity genderfluid]] and the last Mouse hero, Multimouse, being a woman; his Miraculous transformation came out as female.
* The Loki, Agent of Asgard fanfiction [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/1764257 I'm way ahead of you, sister]] has Verity able to sense when a person's actual gender identity differs from their body, as the body starts to feel like a lie to her truth sense.
* ''Fanfic/PlusFiveToCharisma'' has Alma Madrigal cast a spell that will reveal the true forms of Mirabel's Adventure Party. Saharah, a brass dragonborn who transitioned from male to female, celebrates that the spell didn't turn her back to male. The Party's cleric, Dryft, even points out that magic recognizes her desire to be seen as female.

* ''[[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.
* In the ''Fanfic/QueerTwilight'' series, Esme was assigned male at birth and spent her human life publicly presenting as a man, but as she was turning, her body rebuilt itself into a form that matched her inner self-image.
* Several ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' fics, such as ''Fanfic/ResonanceDays'', ''Fanfic/TheSoulmateTimeline'', ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/38650416/chapters/96624921 Magia: A New Hope]]'', 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 14th​ century French ''Tristan de Nanteuil'' has Blanchandine, a "Saracen" princess and the titular Tristan's wife after she converted to UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}. After her husband goes missing and is presumed dead, Blanchandine goes in hiding from her father, and disguises herself as a knight known as [[LazyAlias Blanchandin]]. The daughter of the sultan and her first cousin once removed, Clarinde, [[KissingCousins falls in love]] with "Blanchandin," and decides to marry "him" once she ascends the throne as the [[SheIsTheKing new sultan]]. Blanchandine eventually relents after trying to stall by refusing to marry until Clarinde converts, but on their wedding night, a large [[TheMarvelousDeer stag]] enters the palace and Blanchandine gives chase into the woods, praying to God and UsefulNotes/TheVirginMary, and, just like Yde, an angel appears and informs her that UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} is giving her the choice on whether to stay a woman or become a man, which she does, in order to avenge Tristan's death and so that no other man can sleep with her. From then on, the story switches to masculine pronouns and constantly calls him Blanchandin. Him and Clarinde have a son together, and when Tristan is revealed to be alive, he becomes his former husband's knightly brother-in-arms.
* [[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.

* The short story ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Women's Need Calls Me]]'' features the sword Need choosing a closeted trans woman as her newest bearer, much to the shock of her old bearer, who sees Need as GenderRestrictedGear. Need, who responds to the distress of women, also offered a magic solution to Pol's intense dysphoria.
* ''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).

* ''Series/Supergirl2015'' introduces Nia Nal/Dreamer (billed as the first trans superhero in a major TV series), played by [[QueerCharacterQueerActor trans actress]] Creator/NicoleMaines. In her family, one woman in every generation inherits [[DreamingOfThingsToCome oneiromantic]] powers. While Nia's family was always supportive of her and treated her as female, they assumed her sister would inherit the powers. Nia herself doesn't appear to need convincing that she's a woman (though she is insecure about the powers at first), but this plotline makes her status as such very clear.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{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.
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has a villainous example with Eye, one of the [[PathOfInspiration Black Spiral Dancers]]. Whereas the sect's mystic rituals of glamor will usually just make someone more attractive for a time, she magically takes on the appearance of [[AttractiveBentGender a beautiful woman]] instead. For an [[CreepyCrossdresser ugly]] villain who could otherwise never "pass" successfully, to be affirmed like this by the dark gods (not to mention given the chance to prey on unwitting men as a legitimately gorgeous [[TheVamp vamp]]) is a dream come true.

* In ''TabletopGame/ArkhamHorror,'' investigator Stella Clark has this as part of her backstory. Before she came out as trans, she heard mysterious whispers calling her by her [[IKnowYourTrueName true name]], which was part of what drew her into the world of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s the investigators, well, investigate. The place the whispers came from and its connections in the lore imply the mystical recognition came from Nodens, the closest thing the Arkham Horror universe has to a BigGood.
* [[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.
* 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 trans woman - [[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.]]
* ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' had the concept of [[IKnowYourTrueName True Names]] in First Edition, which is why most mages used Shadow Names when dealing with one another to avoid getting sniped by sympathetic magic. Second Edition, however, refines True Names to "Sympathetic Names," which is the name that imprints on you based on everyday use and is ''not'' necessarily the one on your birth certificate; Shadow Names, on the other hand, involve a direct draw upon the Supernal Realms. The devs have gone so far as to say that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the Seers of the Throne]] are unlikely to try deadnaming rival trans mages, because it has no value beyond shitty psyops.

* ''VideoGame/TheMissingJJMacfieldAndTheIslandOfMemories'' uses this as a twist in one of its subplots [[spoiler:...or rather, the main plot. The entire game is a nightmare J.J. is having to help her regain the will to live, having been DrivenToSuicide after being outed as a trans girl. Her appearance when she wakes up is very different (despite the fact she was already presenting as a girl at university), implying that her form was a sort of "true self". [[MindScrew Maybe]].]] The game was made by [[Creator/{{Swery65}} the same creator as]] ''Deadly Premonition'', who made a point of asking several transgender people for their input on their experiences.
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': Characters with AmbiguousGender (d'Eon and Enkidu) usually won't be affected with skills that target certain genders. For the Valentine and White Day events, they can both give chocolate (a feature for female Servants) and receive chocolate (a feature for male Servants).

* ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'': The Fortunate Navigator is a trans man. During his questline, a devil at Death's Door congratulates the Navigator on making his physical form match his soul.

* ''VideoGame/{{Lisa}}'': While it does not come up in the game itself, WordOfGod says that the [[{{Gendercide}} Great White Flash]] did not spare trans women, whether or not they had transitioned.
* 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 then quickly recognises that she belongs in the system.
* ''VisualNovel/TheCosmicWheelSisterhood'': In-universe, only women can become witches, but biology is irrelevant to this distinction. You can end up helping a newly-ascended witch through her physical transition via magic, even if she's a little freaked out at everyone around her suddenly recognizing her as a woman after a mostly-closeted young adulthood.

* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'':
** Transgender girls are able to have the Dream and become Magical Girls. In Zoe's case, this happened before she'd even come out. Fans immediately started wondering how this would affect Zoe's physical transition, but the author said very firmly she's not going to get into that.
** WordOfGod is that non-binary people can have the Dream and gain powers, but she said she's not going to bring it up in the comic because it's a complicated subject and she doesn't want it to seem like she's saying there is only one "correct" way for non-binary people to act.

* 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 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 ''Webcomic/DemonStreet'', trans characters' chosen names are [[IKnowYourTrueName the names that are used in magic]]. When Norn is about to trade their name with the archivist in order to [[SuperEmpowering unlock their magic]], they ask if it matters that it's not their given name. [[http://www.demonstreet.co/comic/130 The archivist responds]], "your real name is the name that's ''you''. I don't need to know what you were called before."

* Angels in the universe of ''WebComic/KillSixBillionDemons'' have physical forms sculpted from rock that contain their true forms, which can only exist in the Void. While these forms are generally androgynous or masculine, their true forms are far less humanoid. In the case of angels that identify as female (or are in denial), such as Delicious[[note]][[NameThatUnfoldsLikeLotusBlossom 23 Liminal Blossom Punctures the Heart of the Unrepentant, Deliciously]][[/note]] or 82 White Chain[[note]]Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil[[/note]], their true form reflect this, being more reminiscent of humanoid women. Their leader, 2 Michael[[note]]Wielder of the White Flame, First among the Secondborn[[/note]], disapproves of this. [[spoiler:When 82 White Chain becomes human by shattering her form and moving through Solomon David, her body is that of a female human]].

* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': When Kay'la (a MtF sea elf) gets her gender flipped by a cursed spear, it turns her into a man.

* OlderThanPrint: ''[[https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/abbouchi_mounawar_201508_ma.pdf Ydé and Olive]]'', a 13th-century ''chanson de geste'', Ydé is a princess who escapes from [[IncestantAdmirer incestuous harassment by the king]] and goes on the road as a warrior, [[SweetPollyOliver adopting a male persona]] that becomes more and more a part of his identity. He eventually participates in the defense of Rome and is rewarded with the hand of the daughter of the local ruler. He confides in her and 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.
* The 14th​ century ''Tristan de Nanteuil'' has Blanchandine, a "Saracen" princess and the titular Tristan's wife after she converted to UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}. After her husband goes missing and is presumed dead, Blanchandine goes in hiding from her father, and disguises herself as a knight known as [[LazyAlias Blanchandin]]. The daughter of the sultan and her first cousin once removed, Clarinde, [[KissingCousins falls in love]] with "Blanchandin," and decides to marry "him" once she ascends the throne as the [[SheIsTheKing new sultan]]. Blanchandine eventually relents after trying to stall by refusing to marry until Clarinde converts, but on their wedding night, a large [[TheMarvelousDeer stag]] enters the palace and Blanchandine gives chase into the woods, praying to God and UsefulNotes/TheVirginMary, and, just like Yde, an angel appears and informs her that UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} is giving her the choice on whether to stay a woman or become a man, which she does, in order to avenge Tristan's death and so that no other man can sleep with her. From then on, the story switches to masculine pronouns and constantly calls him Blanchandin. Him and Clarinde have a son together, and when Tristan is revealed to be alive, he becomes his former husband's knightly brother-in-arms.

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* 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.
* Even farther back there are OlderThanPrint examples:
** In ''[[https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/abbouchi_mounawar_201508_ma.pdf Ydé and Olive]]'', a 13th-century ''chanson de geste'', Ydé is a princess who escapes from [[IncestantAdmirer incestuous harassment by the king]] and goes on the road as a warrior, [[SweetPollyOliver adopting a male persona]] that becomes more and more a part of his identity. He eventually participates in the defense of Rome and is rewarded with the hand of the daughter of the local ruler. He confides in her and 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.
** There is also the 14th​ century ''Tristan de Nanteuil'', in which the subject is Blanchandine, a "Saracen" princess and the titular Tristan's wife after she converted to UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}. After her husband goes missing and is presumed dead, Blanchandine goes in hiding from her father, and disguises herself as a knight known as [[LazyAlias Blanchandin]]. The daughter of the sultan and her first cousin once removed, Clarinde, [[KissingCousins falls in love]] with "Blanchandin," and decides to marry "him" once she ascends the throne as the [[SheIsTheKing new sultan]]. Blanchandine eventually relents after trying to stall by refusing to marry until Clarinde converts, but on their wedding night, a large [[TheMarvelousDeer stag]] enters the palace and Blanchandine gives chase into the woods, praying to God and UsefulNotes/TheVirginMary, and, just like Yde, an angel appears and informs her that UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} is giving her the choice on whether to stay a woman or become a man, which she does, in order to avenge Tristan's death and so that no other man can sleep with her. From then on, the story switches to masculine pronouns and constantly calls him Blanchandin. Him and Clarinde have a son together, and when Tristan is revealed to be alive, he becomes his former husband's knightly brother-in-arms.

* In ''ComicBook/Spirit World2023'' 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.