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* ''Literature/TheArtOfRacingInTheRain'' is a book about a Golden Retriever who wants to reincarnate into a human. It's based off of a Mongolian legend where dogs can reincarnate into humans if they prepare enough.

* King Louis from ''Disney/TheJungleBook'', an orangutan wanting to become a human.
* Another Louis, the alligator from ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', wants to be human so that he can play trumpet in a jazz band. [[spoiler:He doesn't become human, but still gets his wish to play in a band.]]

** And some [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furries]] or "Furry lifestylers" as well. These most often take the route of reincarnation much like the aforementioned religions or people waiting for biotechnology to become real life {{Beast M|an}}en. Comparing them to the above Transsexuals is considered a BerserkButton to most trans groups.
** A third piece to this puzzle would be anyone with other extreme views on body alteration. Some body art and cosmetic surgery won't get you any out of the normal attention, but some do cross deeper inside. People who partake in transforming themselves into living dolls, have overly tattooed or pierced bodies or have done something considered a "self mutilation" can all fall into this category. Any such people clearly follow the philosophy a human should alter their body to how they prefer it to look. Even where there are points of similarities, there are significant portions of the trans and furry communities that want nothing to do with them and probably vice versa.[[note]]To clarify to users who aren't sure who this refers to, we're talking about people who do some of the same things but don't share the ideology.[[/note]]

* Shokora from ''Manga/MassuguNiIkou'' is a dog who thinks he's a human. It's because his owner, "Mama" as he calls her, always told him he was a member of the family, rather than a pet.

** [[subverted: She's being literal. The 'reincarnation' spell is a BITCH.]]

* The "permanent magical transformation" support group in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/360473/clair-de-lune Clare De Lune]]'' usually acts as a {{transgender}} supporf group, however it is a support group for all kinds of transformations. One member is a unicorn, Green Wheat, who was born an earth pony. She felt uncomfortable being an earth pony so she turned into a unicorn. It's legal to change breeds but there's a stigma against it.

* In ''Film/{{Mammoth}}'', our [[SubvertedTrope failed]] MightyWhitey protagonist falls in love with a Thai woman and is quite shocked that she thinks men are better then women and that it's okay because she can be a man in her next life if she is good enough. His wannabe-feminist preaching fails to impress her.

** And some [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furries]] or "Furry lifestylers" as well. These most often take the route of reincarnation much like the aforementioned religions or people waiting for biotechnology to become real life PettingZooPeople. Comparing them to the above Transsexuals is considered a BerserkButton to most trans groups.

** A third piece to this puzzle would be anyone with other extreme views on body alteration. Some body art and cosmetic surgery won't get you any out of the normal attention, but some do cross deeper inside. People who partake in transforming themselves into living dolls, have overly tattooed or pierced bodies or have done something considered a "self mutilation" can all fall into this category. Any such people clearly follow the philosophy a human should alter their body to how they prefer it to look. Even where there are points of similarities, there are significant portions of the trans and furry communities that want nothing to do with them and probably vice versa [[note]]To clarify to users who aren't sure who this refers to, we're talking about people who do some of the same things but don't share the ideology.[[/note]]

* One joke in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''FanFic/{{Asylum}}'' has Twilight talking to a donkey who is delusional and believes she's a unicorn.

* King Louis from ''Disney/TheJungleBook'', an ape wanting to become a human.

When a character is a fictional kind of Trans Nature, it is often a big part of this character being a hero or villain: Either he's a member of an oppressive/evil group transitioning to become one of the good and/or oppressed people, or we have a "[[CategoryTraitor traitor]]" who identifies with the "wrong" group.

** Played straight to the hilt by Ellen & Elliot! At first, Elliot was Tedd's much more obviously male friend. He also started off normal to counter Tedd's "MadScientist" theme, though that soon got replaced with a MagicVersusScience theme when he was revealed to be skilled at "Anime Style Martial Arts" including projecting spells from his hands. He gets hit by the "Venus" transformation (becoming an extremely attractive, long-haired girl for a month), he demands that Tedd get him a quicker cure (so as to avoid going to high school with an attractive girl's body for a month). Tedd finds out about a crystal that gets rid of transformative "curses", which should work, since the gun is based on [[AWizardDidIt alien]] {{Magitek}}. They find the crystal and Elliot touches it. Long story short, it split him into two people. "Elliot" who got to keep his name (because he was the male one) gained a hand-beam spell to give people the "Venus" transformation but now has to burn off his excess magical energy once a day by spending a few hours as a woman. "Ellen", who was created from the "curse" that was removed, is permanently a woman now, and only slowly coming to terms with the thought that she might be okay with that. But she still remembers having been a man, mind and body, all her life as well as not being able to date Sarah, the girl she remembers as her girlfriend. She also has the ability to use the anime martial arts but has decided to pursue magic more in order to differentiate herself from Elliot, although she really likes to use her own "Venus" transformation on him.

* Jess Star from ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'' is a ten-foot pustulating slug monster with VoluntaryShapeshifting powers. She identifies as a human woman in her twenties (...with VoluntaryShapeshifting powers) and takes that shape as her ShapeshifterDefaultForm.

* This is a common trait of Heroes of Space in ''Webcomic/Homestuck''. Jade is a member of the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom, Kanaya wants to be a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent rainbow drinker]] and Calliope wants to be a troll. This applies to none more than Calliope, who is a Cherub and by her species standards is supposed to grow up alone in conflict with an EvilTwin she's SharingABody with. Unlike the rest of her species, she was lovingly raised by Gamzee, fostering a love of trolls and a hatred of being a cherub. Circumstances eventually lead to Jade becoming half-dog and Kanaya a vampire, but Calliope's character arc ends with her being married to someone that loves who she is.

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* In one short in [[WebAnimation/CyanideandHappiness Cyanide and Happiness]] both plays and mock this concept with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_8cfVpXbo son of mother who literally dress in fox costume and thinking that he "Pyro" Fox]] from "forest planet" while it's mother ''trying'' to killed him because she can't accept his new identity.
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* The small rise of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_plastic_surgery ethnic plastic surgery]] and [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=transracial 'Transracialism' or Transracial]] is most known be controversy in recent years due to some people who think they born in wrong race.

Supertrope of {{Transgender}} and PinocchioSyndrome. Sometimes a SisterTrope of AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. Compare and contrast TheWhitestBlackGuy.

** Played with by Tedd, whose androgynous looks cause people to assume that he is a girl anyway. He developed the genderswapping features on the transformation gun just so that he could actually switch back and forth whenever he wanted to, but mostly because he's a ChivalrousPervert and proud of it. Eventually he is indicated to be gender-fluid, but that he didn't know that was a thing you ''could'' be, and just thought his interest in sometimes but not always being a girl was a result of being raised in an environment with regular contact with shapeshifters and eventually having access to the technological ability to switch sexes.

** A third piece to this puzzle would be anyone with other extreme views on body alteration. Some body art and cosmetic surgery won't get you any out of the normal attention, but some do cross deeper inside. People who partake in transforming themselves into living dolls, have overly tattooed or pierced bodies or have done something considered a "self mutilation" can all fall into this category. Any such clearly follows the philosophy a human should alter their body to how they prefer it to look. However it is unlikely many of which every find themselves welcomed into the larger trans or furry communities even if they share things in common. While it's also true plenty don't fully care for that acceptance but will point out some of the trans and furry communities will activate the BeserkButton at the mere mention of their existence.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', elves are a subrace of humanity. Some normal humans are "elf wannabees" who want to be elves, and sometimes use plastic surgery to make themselves more elf-like. They're usually looked down upon by real elves.
** There also exist "ork posers" (which can be both humans and elves). Ork posers can also take this route towards being orks, although the flaw description implies most of them still consider themselves their old race and just want to hang out in ork circles because they're cool. Orks don't discriminate between the two and just find them all annoying.

* The ''Literature/MerryGentry'' series has a number of people who want to be sidhe and often mimic them by dyeing their hair an unnatural red or getting plastic surgery to get their ears pointed. The later is laughed at by real sidhe because only half breeds have pointed ears.

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has Maureen Ponderosa, who started identifies mentally as cat after both her "death tooth" finally fix with eventually [[CrazyCatLady having too much cats]] finally made her snap and begin have various cosmetic surgery procedures done in order to develop more cat-like features and she wants everyone calls her as cat while on trial.

'''Lawyer:''' ... excuse me?\\

** In the episode ''All About Steve'', there is a (possibly first otherkin villain in cartoon) [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Tolkien fan]] who also happens be domestic terrorist. It ''maybe'' cryptically implies that he's either literally ''Bilbo Baggins'' trapped inside a human body or just a misguided depressed fan that has done being human by becoming "dwarf" and believing that human society must be destroyed in order to create [[TheMagicComesBack his magical utopia modeled after Middle Earth by any means]].
** In another episode, ''Finances With Wolves'', there is another villain, [[AnimalWrongsGroup eco-terrorist]] named Arboreus, that believes he is tree trapped inside a human body. This is his major excuse for doing these extreme tactics, and he also has [[{{Transflormation}} plans to remove them his private parts with acorns]].

** That kind of "trans nature" is pretty common in patriarchal cultures. In some rural regions of Albania, women can, if they have no brothers or other male relatives, go through a ritual that makes them men for the purpose of the law, and enables them to get all the benefits awarded to males. At the price of never being able to have children. Those women are usually not trans as it is understood in the medical sense, they're fine with a female body, just not with the oppression to which they are subjected - and sometimes they're forced to officially change gender because the family needs a male head. It is slowly dying out as society becomes more equal.

Supertrope of {{Transsexual}} and PinocchioSyndrome. Sometimes a SisterTrope of AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. Compare and contrast TheWhitestBlackGuy.

* The children's picture book ''Goblinheart: A Fairy Tale'' uses this as a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything metaphor]] for {{transsexual}} youth. Julep is a fairy who insists they're a goblin. Julep meets a younger goblin named Tuck who is the opposite.

* [[{{Transsexual}} Trans]] people are assigned a gender at birth, usually based on their physical sex, that does not match their self-identified gender later in life. Sometimes occurs due to Intersexuality, i.e. physically being in between male and female or not fitting easily into one or the other, or on rare occasions when something happens to their genitals such as a botched circumcision. Most often the infants are assigned to be female. The whole situation is [[FlameBait very contentious in the Trans community and Anti-trans/Transphobes]].

* The small rise of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_plastic_surgery ethnic plastic surgery]] and [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=transracial 'Transracialism' or Transracial]] is most known be controversy in recent years due to some people who think they born in wrong race, But unlike above example, there are most cases like the infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Dolezal Rachel Dolezal case]] that this is subverted for job benefits than actually believe they are psychologically different race.

** Also compare to people with other extreme views on body alteration. Some body art and cosmetic surgery won't get you any out of the normal attention, if you take this transhumanism too far it will. Such examples as choosing to make yourself look like a real life doll, to overly tattoo yourself, or just any thing considered a "self mutilation" fall into this realm. Anyone in this spectrum clearly follows the same principle that you should alter your body to how you want it to be. But most of the above mentioned trans groups and furry fandoms will be rare to be inclusive to any of the above even if their "alteration" includes elements that overlap. While in a lot of these cases there are VERY different approaches psychologically to how these different groups view themselves and one another, wading into conversations about this increase the chance of setting off a BerserkButton.

* This is a common trait of Heroes of Space in ''Webcomic/Homestuck''. Jade is a member of the FurryFandom, Kanaya wants to be a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent rainbow drinker]] and Calliope wants to be a troll. This applies to none more than Calliope, who is a Cherub and by her species standards is supposed to grow up alone in conflict with an EvilTwin she's SharingABody with. Unlike the rest of her species, she was lovingly raised by Gamzee, fostering a love of trolls and a hatred of being a cherub. Circumstances eventually lead to Jade becoming half-dog and Kanaya a vampire, but Calliope's character arc ends with her being married to someone that loves who she is.

* Averted in the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''Original Sin'': It's very popular amongst trendy young humans in the 40th century to undergo radical cosmetic surgery that makes you look like an alien ("body bepple"). The Doctor explains that this doesn't mean they actually ''like'' aliens; like many empires, the Earth Empire has a fascination with its vassal states' cultures but contempt for the bearers of said culture.