History PlayingWith / GenderBender

** Mike, a UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} woman who wants to be Michelle, learns that Marcy is a witch, so he decides to say as many sexist remarks to her to goad her into changing him into a girl.

* '''Enforced''': The story was written for a TG fiction site, and wouldn't have been accepted if there weren't gender-bending in there somewhere.

* '''Played For Laughs''': The story focuses on Mike's inability to internalize "female" behavior. ManIFeelLikeAWoman, GagBoobs, InnocentFanserviceGirl and similar tropes are in full force. In addition, Michelle's love life just [[LoveDodecahedron got really weird]].

** Mike/Michelle is identified as {{Transgender}} and is given a quick and simple way to change to their preferred gender and embrace it.

* '''Straight''': [[StrawMisogynist Mike]] is sexist and insulting towards [[CuteWitch Marcy]]. She turns Mike into Michelle to teach him [[AnAesop a lesson]]. HilarityEnsues.

** Mike, a {{transgender}} woman who wants to be Michelle, learns that Marcy is a witch, so he decides to say as many sexist remarks to her to goad her into changing him into a girl.

** Mike is a clownfish or otherwise belongs to a species in which changing gender is a normal part of the aging process.

* '''Straight''': [[StrawMisogynist Mike]] is sexist and insulting towards [[CuteWitch Marcy]]. She turns Mike into Michelle to teach him [[AnAesop a lesson]]. HilarityEnsues. Making him also have his mind modified to think he was always Michell

** Mike, or rather Michelle, was transgender before, not after the change; as such, it's a massive windfall for her, but she is still specific to the changed who were not so fortunate.

** Mike, or rather Michelle, was transgender before, not after the change:As such, it's a massive windfall for her, but she is still specific to the changed who were not so fortunate.

* '''Straight''': [[StrawMisogynist Mike]] is sexist and insulting towards [[CuteWitch Marcy]]. She turns Mike into Michelle to teach him [[AnAesop a lesson]]. HilarityEnsues.

** The story downplays the fetishistic elements of the change, instead concentrating on the mundane details of proving your identity after a transformation, getting all your paperwork updated, avoiding [[TheyWouldCutYouUp becoming a scientific lab study]], and dealing with the fallout of all your relationships. If in full detail, examines the effects of a massive, sudden shift in hormones and how it affects how someone thinks and acts.

** Mike, a MTF {{transsexual}} who wants to be Michelle, learns that Marcy is a witch, so he decides to say as many sexist remarks to her to goad her into changing him into a girl.

* '''Exaggerated''': A [[NegativeSpaceWedgie rift in the space-time continuum]] causes everyone on Earth to flip genders. Yes, even characters with [[AmbiguousGender ambiguous]] or [[BizarreAlienBiology unusual]] genders, though what exactly that entails for them is not [[TooMuchInformation explained]], since there is global hilarity ensuing.

* '''Double Subverted''': "That's because it's a slow spell that works from your internal organs out. You're basically going to have your [[GroinAttack genitals fall off]] and go through puberty again, [[DifferentForGirls as a girl this time]], and [[BodyHorror compressed into the space of a month]]. [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody Have fun with the mood swings]]!"

** The story downplays the fetishistic elements of the change, instead concentrating on the mundane details of proving your identity after a transformation, getting all your paperwork updated, avoiding [[TheydCutYouUp becoming a scientific lab study]], and dealing with the fallout of all your relationships. If in full detail, examines the effects of a massive, sudden shift in hormones and how it affects how someone thinks and acts.

* '''Played For Drama''': The story focuses on Mike's hatred of his new form and inability to cope with a woman's social role, in a metaphor for real-life gender dysphoria. Michelle faces gender discrimination both subtle and blatant, sexual harrassment, and alienation from her friends and family, who don't accept her as the same person.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

** AWizardDidIt! The reality-bending aspect of the transformation smooths over any boring mundane nitpicks, so the writer can get back to the glorious FetishFuel.

* '''Invoked''': Marcy specifically studies a spell for just such a purpose.

** The transformation not only made Mike biologically a woman, but transgendered. Because of this, Mike is either left confused or is met with prejudice from those who see him as a woman.