Line #93 Main/ThirdLawOfGenderBending


1	->''"What? I'm wearing a skirt, and I have boobs. I'm not going to start worrying about my manly image ''now!''"''
2	-->-- '''Elliot''', ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''
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4	''Any [[GenderBender gender bent]] character will either embrace or be subject to all of the stereotypes associated with their new gender.''
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6	Characters who change sex typically display — or are forced to adopt — gender appropriate dress and behavior. Most of the time this means dresses and makeup for a man turned woman and aggressive and macho behavior for a woman turned man. Frequently rationalized as being due to the ''characters'' having stereotypical views of gender roles, particularly when the character in question is depicted as being in need of a [[{{Aesop}} lesson]] in gender equality.
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8	Like the [[SecondLawOfGenderBending second law]], this trope typically manifests in one of three forms:
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10	* A masquerade wherein the character is forced by circumstances to adopt stereotypically masculine or feminine attire or behavior, sometimes under duress. (Commonly found in FreakyFridayFlip or similar plots where the character becomes a preexisting person of another sex and must maintain the pretense.) Social mandates such as school or work uniforms may be invoked.
11	* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody, wherein the character simply cannot resist adopting stereotypical attire or behavior due to irresistible compulsion, latent desires, MindControl, biological imperatives, or some combination of all of the above.
12	* The character was ''already'' a {{Tomboy}} or InTouchWithHisFeminineSide, so the way they acted (or wanted to act) before has been made ''more'' socially accepted. The second variant may even be assumed, but turn out to be a placebo effect.
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14	More sophisticated applications of this trope will often apply some combination of the above. It may be as simple as characters wanting or needing to "fit in" (or at least not wanting to stick out), wanting to distance themselves from an identity or past behavior they've grown to dislike, or [[ChangingYourselfForLove wanting to appear attractive]] [[JumpingTheGenderBarrier to a potential love interest]]. Less sophisticated applications simply apply it without question or place the characters in an environment where clothing associated with their former sex simply isn't available.
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16	Since most GenderBender characters are male-to-female, this frequently results in scenes where the newly minted girl is confronted with all of the requirements of his new sex, which can include [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics skirts, hose, makeup, high heels and other trappings of femininity]]. This can result in UnfortunateImplications reinforcing stereotypical behavior. Some people may find the notion of underlying biological imperatives enforcing such behavior offensive or simply ridiculous, as nothing about being a woman inherently results in a need to wear the stereotypical outfit.
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18	From a [[WatsonianvsDoylist literary perspective]], the reason this trope comes up is clear: if an author gender bends a character, and the crew acts normally and maturely until the situation is straightened out, the gender bending [[TheyWastedaPerfectlyGoodPlot didn't really matter]], did it? This trope may be applied to ensure that the characters' problems aren't simply solved by [[RecursiveCrossdressing crossdressing themselves back to their original sex]] and then acting like nothing's changed, thus preserving the drama.
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20	This trope may result in BecomingTheMask or GoingNative depending upon surrounding circumstances, thus leading into the SecondLawOfGenderBending. May result in a ShoppingMontage and/or MakeoverMontage as the new boy or girl (willingly or not) gets geared up for life in their new sex.
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23	!!Examples:
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27	* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Despite pretending he was always a girl, Matsuri's behavior remains [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak primarily, even brazenly masculine]] ([[OreOnna he doesn't even change his first-person pronoun]]), but that makes the few feminine traits he displays more noticeable:
28	** Literally the only changes to his wardrobe are adding a sports bra and switching the slacks in his school uniform for a skirt (the shirt and blazer are the same design, though he needed a new pair to fit his altered body). However, the girl's school uniform is by far Matsuri's most shown outfit, as most of the manga takes place at or on the way to/from school, and he often [[ForgotAboutHisPowers forgets]] to change into his ninja gear when he should. After a few months, Matsuri sometimes wears boyish but distinctly feminine clothes.
29	** {{Discussed\|trope}} when Shirogane first [[AdoptedToTheHouse moves in to the Kazamaki household]] and sees Matsuri serving breakfast:
30	--->'''Shirogane:''' You femininity has leveled up so much that you prepare breakfast in an apron! My Gender Swap Awakened in a cruel jutsu.\
31	'''Matsuri:''' It's only me and grandpa, so [[RealMenWearPink I was doing these chores even when I was a guy]]!
32	** Getting harassed by guys causes Matsuri to develop some traits of a {{Sour Prude\|s}}. When a pair of guys stare at his breasts, Matsuri ''literally forgets his own gender'' for a second. In a later incident, he has no reservation browbeating a group of guys for hitting on a female teacher, then insisting she not be lenient on "the boys", as Suzu mentally notes he seems to be forgetting something. He even gets a reflexive moment of PervertRevengeMode when an enemy [[CampingACrapper attacks him in the bathroom]] (contrast to a similar situation in a very early chapter where Matsuri [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl showed no shame]] [[FullFrontalAssault running into battle naked]]).
33	--->'''Matsuri''': ''(thinking)'' It’s so obvious where you’re looking. Do they think we can’t tell? [[AllMenArePerverts Guys are so stupid!]] [[BoomerangBigot Wait, I’m a guy too.]]
34	** At one point, Matsuri is in a rush to [[SnipeHunt distract Suzu with an errand]], and randomly blurts out he needs girls' clothes. Though still uncomfortable in anything more than the aforementioned school uniform, Reo's [[LossOfInhibitions inhibition-loosing]] FantasticDrug lets Matsuri enthusiastically fly through an CostumeTestMontage, even as Reo picks out increasingly impractical outfits. Ironically, Matsuri asking in the first place makes Reo and Suzu wonder if [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody his female body is making him act more feminine]], and will eventually cause him to [[SecondLawOfGenderBending identify as a girl]].
35	** Matsuri eventually switches from a {{fundoshi}} to girls' underwear because [[WaxOnWaxOff the ensuing discomfort helps develop his spiritual powers]]. As a side effect of losing [[SecurityBlanket something he treasures so much]], he's temporarily rendered very [[ShrinkingViolet timid]] and [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsy]]. The whole thing was his mother's idea, which is rather convenient given she [[WantedASonInstead seems to like the idea of having a daughter]].
36	--->'''Matoi''': Since you're a boy, you prefer traditional fundoshi! But now you must start wearing panties! You'll feel resistant and experience great discomfort, but those emotions will serve to strengthen your spirit and be far more effective than any ascetic training you might do under a mighty waterfall! This is training only you can do!
37	* ''Manga/CheekyAngel'': For all of her insistence that she's truly a boy. Megumi shows little male behaviour besides aggressiveness. [[spoiler:[[ZigZaggingTrope This is complicated]] when it's revealed Megumi was originally a girl who wished to be a boy, but could only receive FakeMemories of being one. This delusion became a sort of subconscious excuse to develop personality traits she wanted, but thought were exclusively masculine.]]
38	* A mild version can be found in ''Manga/TheDayOfRevolution'': Megumi is not shown wearing any exclusively female clothing outside of her girls' school uniform, but since it is Japan her uniform has to be a stereotypical SailorFuku complete with a ridiculously short skirt. She also has her coach/therapist/BFF Motoko constantly reminding her to act more like a girl. Presumably, she only puts up with this because she actually wants to be a girl, she's just riddled with second thoughts and self-doubts whenever she confronts one of the disconcerting aspects of girlhood.
39	-->'''Motoko''': ''[looming over a prostrate Megumi]'' ...sooner or later, you're going to be looking up at someone '''like this'''.
40	* ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'': Tomoki will occasionally use a special device to turn himself into Tomoko so he can act out various shoujo tropes.
41	* ''Manga/KanojoNiNaruHi'':
42	** Initially played dead straight in the first manga: Mamiya's deep-seated needs to win at all things and always be the master of her emotions causes her to seize femininity with both hands, literally demanding her classmates regard her as a girl when she returns to school. Deconstructed later when she breaks down in front of her chief rival/best friend Miyoshi and reveals her bravado is just a brave front she put up because most of her male self-image was tied up in being the best at physical things she can no longer do thanks to some concealed GenderBender related health problems.
43	** Subverted and then reconstructed in the sequel ''Kanojo Ni Naru Hi Another'' when Sagara, who has not publicly re-identified as a girl, is pleased by the effect his schoolgirl "disguise" has on his former rival/newfound love interest Narumi. Be it as a boy or girl, looking attractive to Narumi is uppermost in his mind, though he tries to play it off in classic {{tsundere}} fashion by telling himself it's only because skirts are cooler in hot weather.
44	* ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'': Hazumu was a walking feminine stereotype even before being turned female, and is quick to follow her female friends' advice as how to fit in as a girl. However, she mentions that she prefers male clothing, and occasionally wears them when not in a female school uniform.
45	* Zig-zagged in ''Kimo-Ota, Idol Yarutteyo'': Yousuke, a teenage IdolSinger FanBoy, [[JustWokeUpThatWay wakes up one day]] [[GenderBender as a girl]] named Yoko (which is how everyone else remembers "her" always being), and decides to use their [[AttractiveBentGender now-good looks]] [[AscendedFanboy to become an idol themself]]. However, despite having such a girly career goal, [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Yousuke/Yoko is just as masculine as when they were male]]. Off-stage, they initially didn't wear any feminine clothes besides a school uniform, not even at auditions or training (which makes performing in a short skirt and heels [[DifferentForGirls notably awkward]]). Yoko's bandmate eventually talks them into a GirlinessUpgrade as part of dressing more fashionably while on the job, though since Yoko [[HatesWearingDresses dislikes wearing skirts]], she compromises by buying Yoko [[ModestyShorts shorts that look like a skirt]].
46	* One chapter of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' has Ilulu turn Kobayashi into a man, believing Kobayashi would be [[ImAManICantHelpIt so overcome with lust]] that "he" would have no choice but to take it all out on Ilulu. While Kobayashi acts ([[LadyLooksLikeADude and looks]]) no different than she did before, she notes that she's starting to feel [[AllMenArePerverts uncomfortably sexual instincts]] towards Tohru and Kanna, the latter of which terrified her, though she avoids acting on them.
47	* Played with in ''Manga/NozomuNozomi'': It's implied that the third law triggered Nozomu's GenderBender, as he was a crossdresser obsessed with the external trappings of femininity before his inexplicable spontaneous sex change. However, since he's ambivalent about his actual physical sex change and forced to hide it for a full year his occasional forays into girl's clothing remain just as brief and furtive as if he had remained a boy.
48	* ''Manga/OsananajimiwaOnnanokoniNaare'':
49	** Sylphie wants Iori to become Shiori [[FirstLawOfGenderBending permanently]], but Shiori can change back whenever she's confident that she's still a guy. Sylphie thus tries to make Shiori feel more feminine, effecting the Third Law to cause the First. Her methods include [[MakeoverTorment forcing Shiori into girly outfits]], pushing for her [[JumpingTheGenderBarrier to fall in love with her guy friend]], and using a potion that makes Shiori [[TongueTied unable to speak]] [[{{Bokukko}} in a masculine fashion]]. The latter is so effective it causes an outright ShapeshifterModeLock until it is dispelled.
50	** Since Sylphie's trying to fulfill Shuichi's wish for a "cute girl ChildhoodFriend", Shiori experiences some changes beyond physical sex to better embody his ideal girl. Shuichi likes {{Cute Clumsy Girl}}s, so [[MenAreStrongWomenArePretty Shiori is a much worse athlete than Iori]], but [[FeminineWomenCanCook a much better cook]]. Though not specified, this may be why Shiori [[AttractiveBentGender is considered extremely cute]].
51	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma doesn't usually act any more feminine [[SexShifter in female form]] than in his male form, to the point he is infamous in-universe for going around in female form wearing nothing but his boxers, but he is quite prone to [[HypocriticalHumor undermining his own claims of manliness]] out of opportunism, narcissism, or pure RuleOfFunny:
52	** Ranma is confident in his looks even as a man, but is ''particularly'' [[VanityIsFeminine vain]] about how his female form looks. He's complained about P-chan scratching his "perfect skin", gotten enraged at being called ugly, and [[BigBreastPride gloated about having bigger breasts than Akane]]. In one particularly ridiculous moment in the manga, a spirit imitating his female form says they both look ugly. Ranma tries to prove her wrong by taking the lead as they ''solict dates from random men off the street''.
53	** His [[CompetitionFreak hypercompetitive nature]] has repeatedly lead him to prove aptitude at things like cooking, women's gymnastics, selling things to boys via female sex appeal, and cheerleading. Even besides applying general physical abilities, he's quite good at all of them.
54	** Initially, Ranma completely hated wearing girls' clothes in female form, though he occasionally ended up in them anyway. Eventually, he becomes very quick to dress up and pretend to be feminine, either as part of a disguise or to take advantage of people who don't know his true nature. He [[OverlyStereotypicalDisguise typically overdoes it]], becoming a loud FakeCutie, implying that he's consciously trying to act out stereotypes.
55	** When he hits his head in one episode and thinks he was always a girl, he becomes the ''epitome'' of this trope. The formerly brash, violent, loud-mouthed, hot-tempered and coarse boy becomes very polite, even-tempered, claims to be a pacifist who hates violence, faints at the sight of blood, and is so submissive that she is willing to let [[DirtyOldMan Happosai]] grope her naked bosom because he starts throwing a tantrum when she initially refuses to let him do so and hides behind Akane when he tries his usual perversions. Everyone around Ranma comments that this behavior is completely unlike the normal Ranma.
56	* The Sailor Starlights in ''Anime/SailorMoon: Sailor Stars'' were originally female, but despite their male civilian identities nominally being disguises, they act masculine to various degrees whenever in those forms, even in private (more than in the manga, where they were just crossdressing women instead of physically changing sex). This could just be that their original personalities weren't conventionally feminine, but Seiya in particular seems rather enthusiastic about being a guy, even telling Usagi that a rivalry with a male football player is "something girls can't understand".
57	* ''Manga/SekainohateDeAimashou'': To begin with, Ryouma was a timid, [[DudeLooksLikeALady effeminate boy]] [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide skilled in domestic tasks]] since his mother died. After he was turned female, it's frequently emphasized that he would make a good wife, and he becomes much more emotional, [[ProneToTears especially when it comes to crying]]. Despite a brief initial attempt to pass as a boy, it's pretty much all skirts and dresses from then on, and everybody seems to accept it without comment.
58	* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'': Most of the time Rito is turned into a girl, he ends up being [[DraggedIntoDrag forcibly dressed]] in something feminine and/or revealing. The first time, Mikan and Lala [[MakeoverTorment try to dress Rito up in Lala's spare clothes]], and he runs away when Mikan pulls out a frilly bra. That eventually just leads to Saki, Rin, and Aya (who assume he's a stranger) [[UndressingTheUnconscious throwing away his male clothes while he's unconscious]], then shoving him in lingerie and a racy evening gown once he wakes up. In the following incidents, Lala puts him in a low-neck blouse with a miniskirt then a FrenchMaid outfit, Momo makes him join some girls dressed up as {{Hospital Hottie}}s, and Nemesis uses her shapeshifting powers to turn his school uniform into a girl's one.
59	-->''I... it's over... I held out as long as I could, but I'm in girly panties now...''
60	* An extremely subtle example in ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'': the character that displays the most blatant FemmeFatale[=/=]LadyOfWar body language is eventually revealed to be a gender-bent mole. She often looks like she's posing like a runway model because that's exactly what she's doing.
61	* In ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', during a FreakyFridayFlip, we see TheProtagonist start leaning to the "dark side of gaming" (playing {{Dating Sim}}s... [[SeriousBusiness for girls!]]) and behaving more and more feminine (thanks partly to the [[DemonicPossession Weiss]] that initiated the flip). We also see the girl he switched with start acting more like a boy, although in her case it's largely down to the {{Masquerade}} of maintaining his life. Later on in the story, however, she becomes a {{Bifauxnen}} because she is comfier looking and dressing up as a guy.
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65	* In a ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' story arc (playing off of ''The Metamorphosis''), Jason dreams of waking up transformed into a girl. He panics at first, but soon experiences desires to go shopping and enjoying the Music/BackstreetBoys. Justified, as we see that Jason has a childish view of girls (which makes sense, as he ''is'' a child).
66	** And, he didn't know it was Backstreet Boys music until after he'd started liking it; the realization made him do a CatapultNightmare.
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70	* Navarone tries to avert this which gender swapped in ''FanFic/DiariesOfAMadman'', but circumstances tend to conspire against him. Particularly when he gets taken captive by the monkeys and is forced into wearing various dresses.
71	* Zigzagged in the ''Series/HappyDays'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/HappyDaze'', where Fonzie turns into a girl named Francie. She still wears pants, but she also wears a scalloped blouse and changes into a dress and makeup when she's being formal. She does still [[WrenchWench fix cars]] and rides a motorcycle, but she's expected to be politer and more "ladylike".
72	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' fanfiction ''[[http://rugratonline.free.fr/rrfan45.html Tommy's Change,]]'' Tommy turns into a girl from eating a strange blue worm. Lil tells him to always wear a dress and play with only "girl toys", even though Tommy in the fanfiction itself points out that some females in the actual show wear pants, and (though this was not pointed out) ''Rugrats'' generally has the mentality that there's no such thing as girl and boy toys.
73	* In ''Fanfic/LostTogether'', Ranma gets locked in female shape then suffers amnesia so when the people met by "Ranko" encourage her to dress feminine and learn things such as cooking and sewing, she goes along because she cannot remember being anything else and wants to fit in. She first feels rather awkward -- and wonders what it could mean about her past -- but ultimately grows quite comfortable as a somewhat boyish young woman.
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77	* In ''Film/AllOfMe'', while the heroine is technically sharing a body with the male protagonist, when he falls "asleep" during a court scene, she has to pretend to be him during cross-examination. Her attempts to act male include, but are not limited to, widening her shoulders as much as possible, deepening her voice to ridiculous extents, and even pausing to spit into a non-existent spittoon.
78	* In the Italian movie ''Film/LeComiche2'', after a male individual accidentally undergoes an undesired breast augmentation, he is discovered wearing a rather provocative [[BlackBraAndPanties black bra]] under male clothing. After suffering an equally undesired sexual reassignment surgery, she becomes an odalisque, wearing typical skimpy clothing, performing belly dancing and sexually satisfying her master as favorite in the harem.
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82	* Initially played straight in Justin Lieber's ''Beyond Rejection'' as required by a masquerade; justified later when it's revealed that the "masquerade" was actually part of an [[AllJustADream artificially-induced therapeutic dream]] intended to enable the protagonist to adapt to an involuntary GenderBender.
83	* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': In ''Belgarath the Sorcerer'', the narrator/protagonist says that the one time he transformed himself into a female animal he found it rather disconcerting because of the "extra internal organs" and "those strange chemicals in the blood", but refused to go into any further details.
84	* In the novel ''Girl'' by David Thomas, Bradley Barker (the main character) goes into hospital to have his wisdom teeth removed and is given a sex-change operation by mistake. [[FirstLawOfGenderBending The change is permanent]] and the main character [[SecondLawOfGenderBending does get used to being a woman]] [[ThirdLawOfGenderBending through typical dress and actions]], but the novel is surprisingly respectful of the transgender topic despite the comedic plot set-up.
85	* ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'': After Tip is turned back into Princess Ozma, he instantly transforms from a fairly rambunctious boy to an exceedingly GirlyGirl. However, given the date of publication (1903), it's highly unlikely anything else would have been considered acceptable. FanFic occasionally explains this by making the Ozma personality into a mask that Tip put on for the sake of the people.
86	** Later writers in the Oz Mythos have also addressed this question in novels and short stories, including ''[[Literature/TheSevenBlueMountainsOfOz The Disenchanted Princess of Oz]]'' by Melody Grandy, ''Literature/TheMysteriousChroniclesOfOz'' by Onyx Madden, and ''Fanfic/OzmaSeesHerself'' by Edward Einhorn. These works all take advantage of the apparent time gap between ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'' and ''Literature/OzmaOfOz'' to insert an interquel that covers Ozma coming to terms with her transformation.
87	** ''Anime/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' Anime adaptation, on the other hand, takes a pragmatic approach by depicting Ozma as a rambunctious TomboyPrincess, allowing her to be comfortable as a girl without the unsettling LossOfIdentity implications of the original.
88	** Finally, the [[ComicBook/OzMarvelComics Marvel Comics graphic versions of the novels]] have the script hew closely to the original text, but take advantage of the graphic format to show Ozma tries to act feminine, [[DifferentForGirls but does not instantly know how]]. Some of her expressions are just priceless.
89	* Creator/PiersAnthony's works frequently include gender-bending, usually accompanied by this trope. He tends to write natural laws into his settings which force certain behaviors and responses onto characters based on their physical sexes. Several of his books also combine this with ImAManICantHelpIt. A female will turn into a male and learn that males are such virile creatures possessed with such strong libido they must constantly struggle to contain those urges and not turn into rapists. Some specific examples:
90	** In ''Literature/AndEternity'', Orlene is transformed into a man and immediately becomes an aggressive, misogynistic, testosterone-charged boor, attempting to rape her friend Jolie. Upon having her female form restored, she and Jolie are horrified and conclude that "Men have passions that women do not", and that the reason all men are not constantly overwhelmed with violent lust is that "they have learned control". However, this one is justified in-universe: The "goddess" doing this explains that she is demonstrating the effects of a HereditaryCurse which causes such bestial behavior in a male victim.
91	** ''[[Literature/{{Xanth}} Crewel Lye]]'' in which a male character and a female one switch bodies. The former woman is overcome by hormones and can't resist planting a kiss on her old body. She concludes that men just can't help their piggish instincts, and gains a new respect for the male character when she realizes how restrained he has been.
92	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Gladys the golem from ''Literature/GoingPostal'' and ''Literature/MakingMoney''. Golems are sexless beings but are normally addressed with male pronouns [[ItIsDehumanizing as a courtesy]]. The golem responsible for cleaning the women's restroom was renamed Gladys and given female clothing to ensure propriety. Over the course of the books she starts adopting more and more female traits.
93	* The depiction in ''Literature/PrincessHolyAura'' is very subtle, given this isn't the type of story to indulge in broad gender-based clichés or humor. However, even though Holly is at first uncomfortable at being in the girls' locker room during PE class, she's soon acclimated enough to act naturally feminine in such stereotypical situations as going on a date.
94	* Creator/JackChalker's ''Literature/RiverOfDancingGods'' series literally has variation 2 written right into the physical laws of its universe. The one character who resists is desperately unhappy.
95	* Despite being a serial GenderBender herself, Hildy Johnson, the protagonist of Creator/JohnVarley's ''Literature/SteelBeach'' insists that there are still "girl things" and "boy things" when it comes to dress and behavior, because otherwise there would be little point in changing gender in the first place. This serves to underscore that EasySexChange has become so easy in Hildy's world (you can get a sex change in a beauty shop or a tattoo parlor) that some people are willing to change sex just to facilitate a relationship or even just to suit their clothes.
96	* Creator/VirginiaWoolf had...strong but hard to codify opinions about gender expression, but they result in [[Literature/OrlandoABiography Orlando]] getting very feminine 'naturally' after his/her gender-bend.
97	** After leaving the gypsies, of course. Which is a research goof, since the Rom tend to have serious taboos associated with womanhood, and a Romany encampment is ''not'' the best place to be if you're menstruating for the first time at thirty.
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101	* ''Series/Charmed1998'' plays with this when Prue is turned into a man in order to track down a succubus. She dresses like a man and attempts to copy Dan's posture in order to appear masculine, which is a conscious choice on her part. But as the day goes on, she starts feeling more aggressive and has an instinctive reaction to the word "impotent," culminating in declaring herself a full man after she reflexively punches another man in the face. Piper chews her out for defining masculinity as aggressive and violent, pointing out that Dan isn't either of those things.
102	* ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' features an [[InvertedTrope inversion]] when Adam, after briefly and uncomfortably de-transitioning, burns his last remaining girls' clothing with family and friends present.
103	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[spoiler:The Master]], after regenerating into a female incarnation, changes her name [[spoiler:to "the Mistress" (Missy for short)]] and insists on being addressed as Time ''Lady'' rather than Time Lord, explaining that she considers herself old-fashioned. She also proceeds to dress like a gothic Mary Poppins and plays up her high heels and frills for everything they're worth, including a {{Yandere}} attitude towards the Doctor that would make most yanderes blush.
104	* A demi-version: Chandler, of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' spends time quitting smoking using a hypnosis tape while he sleeps. "You are a strong, confident woman who does not need to smoke". Over the course of the episode, Chandler becomes more stereotypically feminine. He puts on chapstick like lipstick, blotting off the excess. He starts throwing like a girl. He interrupts himself to compliment Rachel on a "stunning blouse". Of course, Chandler was metrosexual and the stunning blouse wasn't entirely out of character even before the hypnosis.
105	-->'''Chandler:''' Well, don't we look pretty, all dressed up.
106	* Gene/Jean, the supposedly male/female "transmute" in ''Series/{{Quark}}'': the whole transition from "Gene" to "Jean" consisted entirely of a shift from masculine stereotypical behaviors to feminine stereotypical behaviors, since no visible physical transformation actually took place.
107	* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E23ProfitAndLace Profit and Lace]]", Quark (the male Ferengi bartender) has to be surgically changed into a female Ferengi. Soon after she completes the transformation, she finds herself taking on every stereotype of female behavior -- not as part of an act, but because her new hormones now rule her psyche. (Apparently, Ferengi females are ruled by the same emotions as ''human'' females -- although Ferengi do have a very sexist society.)
108	* Creator/DavidWalliams plays a transvestite in ''Series/LittleBritain'' who is compelled to take it very seriously and over-exaggerate femininity to the point where it becomes excruciatingly embarrassing to watch. It doesn't help he is also choosing to character-act a genteel Edwardian lady and wears styles which are quite a lot of decades out of date,
109	-->I'm a Lady!
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113	* Played with in ''VisualNovel/MaxsBigBustACaptainNekoraiTale''. Max gets turned into a girl and then gets forced to work in Coffee Shrine, but this is only because of her huge tab there. Her male partner is also forced to work there through the use of a temporary GenderBender potion. Other than that, Max is never really forced into any stereotypical feminine behavior. It probably helps that all of Max's female friends are nerdy lesbians.
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117	* A major driving point in the furry webcomic ''Webcomic/BeyondTheVeil'', in which the attractive, busty young rat girl is in fact the latest body for a deposed intergalactic '''emperor'''. "She" takes to her new body very well, more than happy to have her similarly [[GrandTheftMe body-riding]] male second-in-command as a lover, with a lot of privileges.
118	* ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'':
119	** Zig-zagged when Ace was turned into a girl for a few weeks, and was shocked to discover he had become been attracted to guys, wasn't even aroused at a girl kissing him on the lips, and enjoyed dressing up like a girl and getting a makeover. The school nurse explains that changing his sex also changed his sexual orientation. The rest? [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide That's all on him.]]
120	** When Ace's curse is transferred to Kade, he also becomes quite adept at women's fashion, not to mention high-strung and clingy.
121	---> '''Melissa:''' Fine. One date. We'll see where things go from there.\
122	'''female!Kade:''' Squeee! You've made me such a happy guy, Melissaaa!\
123	'''Melissa:''' If you still think of yourself as a guy, why are you wearing a dress?\
124	'''female!Kade:''' It matched these shoes that were just to ''die'' for! And it makes my butt look cute!
125	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has Grace's Birthday Party arc, part-masquerade where the various characters deliberately chose stereotypical outfits for each other in keeping with the 'walk a mile in my shoes' theme of the occasion.
126	** Susan starts acting macho and aggressive immediately after becoming male. It's transient, however: losing an arm-wrestling contest with the still-female Nanase is enough to snap her out of it. Sarah [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-10-17 points out]] that Susan's reaction was more her being ''herself'', just over a different subject.
127	*** Tedd does note that the first time gender-bending, their new genders' thoughts are exaggerated, which played a part in everyone's storyline during the event, but the only one whose gender-bending mental state was a major plot point was Susan, as it helped her recognize her hangups with men.
128	** Later, when Elliot develops the power to morph his clothes and appearance along with his gender his female forms tend to end up wearing girly outfits because he apparently just can't help visualizing them that way.
129	*** Possibly(?) Justified. It's later suggested that Elliot might be some form of non-binary (indifferent to gender), as he doesn't personally recognize the difference between "man" and "woman" as gender identities beyond the fact that other people say they exist, and thus his definitions of genders are largely shaped by media representation and the behavior of others.
130	** Grace has fewer dresses and skirts in her wardrobe than Tedd does despite most of her first clothes being selected by OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Sarah. He even [[TheTease prides himself on how sexy he looks]] transformed, and claims he [[FeminineWomenCanCook cooks better while female]] out of habit.
131	*** Justified to some extent with the revelation that [[spoiler:Tedd is [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} gender-fluid.]]]]
132	** {{Exaggerated}} with [[spoiler: Ellen Magus, who comes from a much higher-magic world where, among other things, permanent gender-change spells are readily available. One effect of this is that people who wish to pursue an occupation stereotypically associated with the opposite gender will often switch genders. Ellen himself, for example, was born female, but was interested in a career as a KungFuWizard and so decided to switch to male for the enhanced physical strength.]]
133	* ''Webcomic/TheGoodWitch'': Playing with the third law is just one of the ways Angel torments her victims. Examples include making sure all of her older brother's transformations include uber-girly clothes, turning one classmate into a cheerleader (complete with outfit) and possibly turning another into an [[WholesomeCrossdresser enthusiastic transvestite.]] However, the third law is also played straight with Angel herself, who, as a former male-to-female transgender person, is absolutely thrilled to finally be able to buy the dress she always wanted. Since she can (and does) magically create any clothing she wants at will actually buying the dress appears to have been an act of affirmation on her part.
134	* Played with in ''Webcomic/IDreamOfAJeanieBottle'': Jean's ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie''-inspired powers means her clothing reverts to the iconic ''I Dream Of Jeannie'' harem girl outfit whenever she reverts to her base genie form and circumstances always seem to be forcing her to "girlify" her outfit even when she changes it into something else. However, she's also shown experimenting with stereotypical female outfits (Franchise/SailorMoon, WesternAnimation/KimPossible, and [[ComicBook/XMen Rogue]]) in a G-rated ManIFeelLikeAWoman sequence.
135	* The T-Girls of the ''Webcomic/JetDream'' RemixComic, being [[ActionGirl Action Girls]], retain many traditionally "masculine" traits. But because the T-Girls are often [[FemmeFataleSpy covert operatives]], they have been extensively trained in all aspects of "feminine behavior." It's not purely professional, however -- for the most part, the T-Girls seem to ''enjoy'' their new female roles.
136	* ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'': Ash hates acting feminine, generally only making minimal concessions that are either enforced biologically (periods, bras) or culturally (bathing suits, a bridesmaid dress). He doesn't hesitate to complain about it, either, in ways that make it plain it fuels his fear of assimilation, and he maintains his interest in his main "masculine" pursuits, electronic gaming and amateur street racing. Ash's mother, however, [[WantedAGenderConformingChild is doing her utmost to enforce this trope]], including roping Ash into a modeling event. Ash referred to seeking her help picking out a bridesmaid dress as "a deal with the powers of darkness."
137	* Both averted and played straight in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. When Roy dons the Belt of Gender Bending, he is almost immediately hit on by both the dwarf assassin sent to kill him and by Belkar (who knows it's actually Roy but hits on him anyway to make him uncomfortable), and even Haley makes wisecracks at his expense. However, when offered the chance to either change back or stay a woman, he admits that it wasn't as bad as he'd expected going into it.
138	* ''Webcomic/SailorSun'': Bay is forced to dress as a MagicalGirl for her acting job and later forced to act as a surrogate mother for two successive [[KidFromTheFuture Kids From The Future]]. It's worth noting that Bay was turned into a woman ''because'' the production crew wanted him/her [[EnforcedMethodActing to play a boy turned into a magical girl.]]
139	* ''Webcomic/{{Spiderwebs}}'' uses variation one: After an ill-considered wish turns the protagonist into a girl she returns home to discover her bedroom redecorated and all of her clothes replaced by a "helpful" pooka.
140	* ''Webcomic/TheWotch'': It's made explicit in the case of the four {{Jerk Jock}}s who got turned into cheerleaders (''[[Webcomic/{{Cheer}} The Wotch, Cheer!]]'') where it's flat-out stated that the four primarily acted like macho jerks to repress their fundamentally kind and gentle (i.e. "feminine") inner natures
141	** Although ''Webcomic/{{Cheer}}'' does at least expand their personalities and shows that Alex retains a rather masculine love of war, guns, and battle strategies and Lita is if anything even more of a diehard gamer, which implies that Sam's and Jo's primary interests (cooking and MagicalGirl anime) carried over as well. The cheerleaders in ''The Wotch'' appeared to simply be stereotypical girly-girls.
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145	* It happens in most of the stories on the TG-transformation fiction site [[http://www.fictionmania.tv Fictionmania,]] willingly or not.
146	* This happens a ''lot'' in stories in the Transsexuals and Crossdressers section of erotic fiction platform Literotica, though it's usually superficial stuff like buying dresses.
147	* Explored in enough depth to constitute an entire subplot in ''Literature/MagicalGirlPolicy''. The need to maintain the {{Masquerade}} and go undercover as a cheerleader means Robynne gets dragged kicking and screaming (figuratively, anyway, she's too introverted to actually be that demonstrative) into a crash-course GirlinessUpgrade involving shoes, clothing, lingerie, and makeup. Fortunately, her fellow Spirit Guards are largely sympathetic to her desire to tone down her [[AttractiveBentGender spectacular looks]] to avoid unwanted male attention, though her UnwittingMuggleFriend Stacy has other ideas. She also has to learn to live with the permanent waist-length bangs hairstyle that comes part and parcel with her MagicalGirlWarrior powers but is at least spared the cost and effort of maintaining it.
148	* In the ''WebOriginal/{{Paradise}}'' setting, humans are randomly, permanently changed into {{Funny Animal}}s (with some experiencing a gender-change at the same time). Some of these stories feature involuntarily feminized characters receiving a GirlinessUpgrade (because TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody) and throwing themselves into it all the way.
149	* ''Take a Lemon'' actually combines variation 1 and 2: not only do the circumstances of his GenderBender force Marsh to adopt a masquerade it turns out his alternate universe DistaffCounterpart ''doesn't own any pants'' as unlikely as that seems.
150	* The GenderBender characters of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' display the full range of this trope. They are expected to keep up a HideYourGays masquerade while at the titular school for the safety of the LGBTI students at Poe cottage, which the school justifies as a sensible precaution after an MTF student was murdered by her homophobic boyfriend. However, the degree to which individual students actually participate reflects the degree to which they were (knowingly or unknowingly) transgender before their change, the degree of their change, their degree of acceptance afterwards, and/or their confidence in their ability to defend themselves.
151	** Chaka, Generator and Lancer (who were all transgender before they changed) are all examples of the trope played straight.
152	** Fey (who has a female spirit in her head helping her to become feminine) is an example of the justified version of the trope.
153	** Bladedancer is a double subversion: She is fully female but dresses as close to boyish as she can get away with in what amounts to a SuperheroSchool with prep school clothing rules. On the other hand, she now listens to some of the music her girlfriend Molly likes (in addition to still liking what she listened to as a boy) and appears to be gradually (if not enthusiastically) adjusting.
154	** Fully subverted by Phase, who receives a girl's figure and proceeds to fight tooth and nail against it (despite his guardians' insistence that he embrace the change). Phase still has male genitalia and goes out of his way to announce his still-a-male-ness to everyone he meets, even though events [[DraggedIntoDrag tend to conspire to force him]] to [[DisguisedInDrag pretend to be a girl]]. Phase's mutation got him thrown out of his KnightTemplar family of [[NobleBigot Noble Bigots]] and [[HeteronormativeCrusader Heteronormative Crusaders]] so it's possible he doesn't reject the change so much as he just hates himself.
155	** Jobe Wilkins plays the biological imperative concept straight. He designed his current female form as a [[AllMenArePerverts fantasy girlfriend]] intending to inflict it on somebody else. While Jobe still ''claims'' to want the GenderBender reversed it's also apparent that "she" is also [[HoistByHisOwnPetard gradually falling prey]] to the biological imperatives "he" programmed into herself.
156	** Ribbon deliberately follows this trope - mostly - especially regarding clothing, on the belief that if she's going to start over fresh, she may as well make the most of it.
157	** Finally there's Tennyo, who is bound to a TimeAbyss [[HumanWeapon Humanoid]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction Weapon of Mass Destruction]]; she just doesn't seem to care (and is so powerful she doesn't really have to). Similarly, there is Carmilla, a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]], half-EldritchAbomination demigoddess whose original male form was a disguise imposed on her at birth. Neither of them really have a human viewpoint anymore, so they do just follow gender expectations enough to avoid drawing unwanted attention.
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161	* Inverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' where Batwoman switches her mind with Batman's. Being transferred into a ''man's'' body makes Batwoman go from somewhat feminine to ''absurdly'' {{Camp}}y and effeminate. Batman, meanwhile, acts the same in either body.
162	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', when Timmy wishes to be a girl to be able to hang out with Trixie and find out what she wants, he gets the irresistible urge to watch soap operas and buy shoes--although he already did that first one ''before'' the gender-bend. He maintains his urge to read comic books like "Skull Squisher". ...because of the FanService. "Muscular guys in spandex fighting crime, cool!" Timmy also makes Cosmo and Wanda switch sexes while he's out: Wanda changes from a stressed-out OnlySaneMan into a surly FatSlob. Cosmo goes from a careless idiot to a [[VanityIsFeminine vain]] HystericalWoman.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
164	** Zig-zagged in "Bend Her": fembot!Bender embraces ''his'' [[OverlyStereotypicalDisguise idea of what a woman should be]]--basically, [[MyGirlIsASlut slutty]]--but Calculon recognizes this as making her "one of the boys." Interestingly, he finds this attractive and falls in love with "her". Later, it's stated the robot equivalent of sex hormones are making Bender more "feminine" (demonstrated when he insists on putting a coaster under a drink), which mostly makes him [[WomenAreWiser empathetic enough to worry that his scam will hurt Calculon]].
165	** In the episode "Neutopia", the guys eagerly act girly and giggly when their genders get flipped by a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien. When the girls-turned-guys force them to make a swimsuit calendar, they enjoy it a lot more than the real girls did when the real guys forced ''them'' to take cheesecake pictures.
166	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', in the episode "Trading Faces", Jimmy and Cindy trade bodies through a freak accident. After they're stuck that way long enough, [[TheMindIsThePlaythingOfTheBody their bodies start making their minds more like the one original in them]], which manifests in an unusually "girly" outburst from Jimmy-in-Cindy's body.
167	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "One of the Boys", Lincoln has a dream where his sisters have turned into boys. The boys are all mean and [[{{Gasshole}} fart a lot]], even though only three of his real sisters fart a lot and only three of them are a bit abrasive (and even those three aren't really ''mean''). Then, in the dream, Lincoln turns into a girl and is seen wearing a dress and hairclip, having long hair, and having a pink-decorated room.
168	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' centered on a purely psychosomatic example: A faulty DNA test convinces Skipper he's a female. At first, he thinks it won't interfere with his job, but then he does things like wait for the others to open the door for him and - horror of horrors! - ask for directions. So he quits the team, [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics puts on a pink bow]] and moves in with Marlene, who is not amused with his outdated ideas of femininity.
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