'''Basic Trope''': In fiction, people who change genders for any length of time tend to prefer their new gender.
* '''Straight''': [[GenderBender Alex becomes Alice]], and she decides her life is better now.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alex becomes Alice, and immediately swears off her old life.
* '''Downplayed''': Alex becomes a woman and gradually comes to accept and like her new life while still feeling a little nostalgic for her past as a man.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice was transgender even before she acquired a full-fledged female body. What would be a set-back for those unaffected by gender dysphoria, is actually an amazing blessing to her, as she now has a body that really reflects how she feels about herself.
** MenAreTheExpendableGender, and she's glad that she isn't expendable anymore.
** Alex's gender identity changes alongside the sex of the body, so Alice doesn't feel dysphoria, as if she was a cis woman the entire time.
** The transformation spell doesn't work unless the person transformed is ok with their new body.
** [[AttractiveBentGender Alex is much better-looking as Alice]], resulting in a massive boost to her popularity and self-esteem.
* '''Inverted''': Alex becomes a woman, and hates every second of it. "She" changes back at the first opportunity.
* '''Subverted''':
** Alex becomes Alice, and enjoys it. However, in the end, she still chooses to change back.
** Alternatively, Alex becomes a Alice, and doesn't like it, even though her life has changed for the better so much that she probably ''should''.
* '''Double Subverted''': Alex turns into Alice, but decides to change back... only to re-gender bend himself after spending a few days back in his old life.
* '''Parodied''': Alex becomes Alice, and swears she hates her new life... but she's protesting just a ''wee'' bit too loudly.
* '''Zig Zagged''':
** He becomes a she, and spends a few years switching back and forth, keeping up a double life. His/Her closest friends are fully aware of his/her situation. In the end, s/he finds love and picks an appropriate form... or finds a gender bending boy/girlfriend.
** Alice creates a male clone of herself so she can live both lives.
* '''Averted''':
** He turns into a she and simply does not like it. This may or may not depend on his opinion of women.
** Alternatively, He does not turn into a she at all, even though events in the story suggest that he should.
* '''Enforced''': "We intentionally picked tropes to play up his masculinity and Freudian issues in order to make his eventual decision to stay trans-gendered more powerful."
* '''Lampshaded''': "Let me guess. Now I'm supposed to go spend 3–4 days playing dressup and gossiping about boys, then decide I don't want to revert to my boring hairy self. Whatever, I'm going to go hang out in the locker rooms."
* '''Invoked''': Her new friends are aware of her new situation, and intentionally encourage her to explore her new gender.
* '''Exploited''': The [[BigBad villain]] transforms the fighter into a girl to make her physically weaker, [[BatmanGambit knowing him enough to know that]] she wouldn't want to transform back.
* '''Defied''':
** "Ah hell no, I'm not trying on that dress, those things are addictive!"
** Alex actively refuses to use any other name or pronouns, continues to present masculine, and identifies as a trans man rather than a cis woman.
* '''Discussed''': "He's a girl now, huh? Ten bucks says he doesn't want to change back."
* '''Conversed''': "Why is it that any character in Literature/{{Whateley|Universe}} who is turned into a girl for more than five minutes wants to stay that way?"
* '''Deconstructed''':
** He becomes a she, and discovers she likes her new life... but feels like she is killing her male self by changing. Alternately, she likes her new life at first, but then encounters obstacles like the glass ceiling, the alienation of all her friends who liked her better as a man, unwanted attention from the public and the scientific community, and [[AllPeriodsArePMS another unpleasant thing she hadn't considered.]] In the end she decides it's not worth it and changes back.
** She becomes a he, and life is better for him... except for the massive bouts of dysphoria he suffers from still having his opposite gender brain. Despite "improved" circumstances, he can't reconcile with the fact that he's not who he used to be, so even then he's not living the life he wanted.
** She sabotages all attempts to turn her back.
** She becomes a he, and discovers that MenAreTheExpendableGender.
** As would be indicated by our modern understanding of gender, Alex scoffs at the idea that he, a cis man, would ever accept being a woman just because of his physical change.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** He becomes a she, and discovers she likes her new life. She agonizes about how this means she is giving up on her old, male life, only to come to terms with it by talking through it with her parents and friends.
** The gender-bending also bends Alex's mind so that his gender identity switches to female, bypassing the dysphoria.
** Upon changing back to his male body, Alex's refusal to embrace this trope lets him gain a greater understanding of what transgender people go through regarding dysphoria. He swears to be a greater ally.
* '''Played For Laughs''': She creates a [[OppositeSexClone male clone of herself]] so she can live both lives.
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