Entry for Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person had a long paragraph of analysis and context when every other line item on this index is just a trope, a work, and a date. I deleted the paragraph and quote. I have included it below for ease in cutting and pasting, should anbody want to make a work page for the short story.
Romanian folk tale "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 Gender Bender.
- "But punishments are things about which people do not always agree, and when the princess suddenly felt she was really the man she had pretended to be, she was delighted, and if the hermit had only been within reach she would have thanked him from her heart."
- Trainstopping: Superman did it.
When? That is, what issue of what year did this happen? Superman is certainly Older Than Television, but of course is still going.
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