History GenderBender / LiveActionTV

** In season 1 episode 1 (patch 1.1) Wizard Brendon saves a ChainmailBikini clad warrior maiden from (more than likely) being raped. Her initial main goal is to find pants. [[spoiler: In episode 2 (patch 1.3), we learn that her player's name is Steven. Later in episode 2 (patch 1.4) Steven explains that he thought if he's going to spend hours looking at an ass, it might as well be a nice one.]]
** Meanwhile, also in season 1 episode 1 (patch 1.2), we meet a male gnome named Maybel. [[spoiler: It isn't until episode 3 (patch 1.5) that we learn Maybel's player is a girl who created her male gnome avatar to avoid frequent propositions from male gamers.]]
** In season 2 episode 1 (patch 2.1) we meet a female member of the Devil's Cheerleaders. [[spoiler: Later in episode 1 (patch 2.2) we learn this is Steven again, in a different female avatar. He met a wizard and asked him to change his avatar. He'd meant for his new avatar to be male, but something was lost in communication.]]
** Also in season 2 episode 1 (patch 2.1) we meet male adventurer Quinn. [[spoiler: Later in episode 1 (patch 2.2) we find out that Quinn is an alt for female elf Q from season 1 (still extant). The sex of the real-world player has not been definitively determined, so exactly which one of them is gender swapped is unknown, but one of them must be.]]
* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'': We have a strange version of this trope in the ''Series/{{Elseworlds|2018}}'' crossover between three [[Creator/TheCW CW]] series. John Deegan (Jeremy Davies) has rewritten reality so that he is Superman. However, Kara (Melissa Benoist) soon realizes that technically he is not actually Superman, but rather a male version of herself, based on the scans that the AMAZO robot took of her. This is because she is from Earth-38, and the Book of Destiny that Deegan used to rewrite reality only contains information on things from Earth-1. Kara mocks him for being too scared to just go all the way and become her. The three different series and episodes are:
** ''Series/TheFlash2014'' "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S5E9ElseworldsHourOne Elseworlds Part 1]]" (season 5 episode 9)
** ''[[Series/{{Arrow}} Arrow (2012)]]'' "[[Recap/ArrowS7E9ElseworldsHourTwo Elseworlds Part 2]]" (season 7 episode 9)
** ''Series/Supergirl2015'' "[[Recap/Supergirl2015S4E9ElseworldsHourThree Elseworlds Part 3]]" (season 4 episode 9)
* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Delenn was originally [[WhatCouldHaveBeen supposed to have been]] male or neuter in the first season, before entering the chrysalis and becoming female, but the idea was dropped. Sources differ as to the exact details and reasons for this:
** They couldn't get Mira Furlan's (electronically altered) voice as "Male Delenn" quite right.
** Mira Furlan ''refused'' to play Delenn as a male.

** Invoked by [[CovertPervert Willow]], in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E18Earshot Earshot]]" (season 3 episode 18) who suggests this as one of the possibilities after Buffy touches a demon and is set to take on a part of it.
** The BigBad of Season 5 (from episode 4 to 22) [[spoiler: regularly transformed between the evil female demon Glorificus aka Glory (Clare Kramer) and the nice male doctor Ben Wilkinson (Charlie Weber). Ben first appears in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E4OutOfMyMind Out Of My Mind]]" (episode 4). Glory first appears in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E5NoPlaceLikeHome No Place Like Home]]" (episode 5), and it is revealed that the two are the same in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E13BloodTies Blood Ties]]" (episode 13).]]
** Almost happened in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E6Him Him]]" (season 7 episode 6), after an unpopular boy uses a magic jacket to make any woman who sees him wearing it [[LoveIsInTheAir fall madly in love with him]]; the magic takes effect on Willow, who (after being reminded that she's a lesbian) decides to turn him into a girl so that they can be together. Fortunately, Xander interrupts her before the magic ritual is completed.
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E13TheKillerInMe The Killer in Me]]" (season 7 episode 13), Willow (Alyson Hannigan) is briefly cursed with a {{Glamour}} that changes her into a double of Warren Mears (Adam Busch) [[note]](the man responsible for the death of her first girlfriend, Tara)[[/note]]. The curse also causes [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody Warren's personality to gradually override Willow's own]] -- and eventually influences her to try to re-create his attack on her friends.
* Occasonally used on ''Series/TheCarolBurnettShow''. It's PlayedForLaughs, of course. Notable skits include:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFg_hIVqvVY the Godfather Honeymoon skit]] (season 6 episode 9)
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnvzAyZIqRc the Star Trek Estrogena 7 Parody]] (1991 reboot episode 6).
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NL6IqubGzo deleted and lost before it could be identified]].
* ''[[Series/{{Charmed|1998}} Charmed (1998)]]'': Occurs in "[[Recap/CharmedS2E5ShesAManBabyAMan She's A Man, Baby!]]" (season 2 episode 5) as part of a spell to help the sisters trap a succubus. Prue makes [[AttractiveBentGender quite a handsome man]], the male version still portrayed by Shannon Doherty.

*** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End Of Time]]" (season 30/4 episode 18) The Doctor himself briefly ''thought'' he had become female when he regenerated into Creator/MattSmith, and noticed how long his new hair's bangs were.
*** An unseen character called the Corsair was known for this. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]] (season 32/6, episode 4), in which the Corsair is first mentioned, is the first confirmation in the TV series that a Time Lord can regenerate as the opposite sex:

*** Creator/NeilGaiman (who wrote the episode) also confirms the Corsair having a couple of female regenerations in ''The Brilliant Book 2012''. The Corsair also gets a reference in the 2012 novel adaptation of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada "Shada"]] (season 17 episode 6), in which the Fourth Doctor alternates between male and female pronouns while gossiping about them to Romana.

*** The first on-screen Time Lord example is Missy (Creator/MichelleGomez), the BigBad of the revival's eighth series (seasons 34/8 - 36/10), who is revealed to be a female incarnation of the Master. The trope is notably shown in a very positive way, and the character happily identifies and presents as female, without any kind of angst about the change (despite their previous male incarnations being somewhat disdainful of women).
*** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]] (season 35/9 episode 12), the commander of Gallifrey's armed forces (Ken Bones), a white man, regenerates into a black woman (T'Nia Miller), commenting afterward that her previous self had been her only male incarnation to date. The trope is again shown in a positive way, with no angst over the change.
*** The Doctor ''does'' become female in [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]] (season 37/11 episode 1), regenerating from the Twelfth Doctor (Creator/PeterCapaldi) into the Thirteenth Doctor (Creator/JodieWhittaker). [[spoiler:Her version of the Master has gone back to male after being Missy, played by Creator/SachaDhawan.]]
*** And, in the 2022 special [[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor "The Power of the Doctor"]], the Thirteenth Doctor (Creator/JodieWhittaker) regenerates back to male as the Fourteenth Doctor (Creator/DavidTennant).
** In the Creator/TomBaker-era story [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear "The Hand of Fear"]] (season 14 episode 2), the Kastrian Eldrad (Judith Paris) regenerates from a single hand into a female body, apparently based on Sarah Jane's. Upon being injected with a deadly poison, she regenerates, into a male body (Stephen Thorne). The Doctor is surprised, and Eldrad calls him out on his confusion, saying he should know all about regeneration and its possibility for changing gender (making this the first implication in the series that regeneration could produce a sex change).
** Zig-zagged in [[Recap/DoctorWhos28E1NewEarth "New Earth"]] (season 28/2 episode 1): the villainous Cassandra (Zoë Wanamaker), a UsefulNotes/{{trans|gender}} woman from the future (who surgically altered her body so often in the pursuit of beauty and immortality that only her eyes and a flap of skin remain), tries to stave off her death by [[BodySnatcher transferring her consciousness]] into Rose Tyler (Creator/BilliePiper). The Doctor quickly sees through the ruse, and orders Cassandra to leave Rose's body; she complies -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1convDWA_tE by transferring herself]] into ''his'' body. Cassandra (and the audience) are amused as she revels in her handsome figure and new "parts" ("And hardly ''used!''") with Creator/DavidTennant hamming it up like a campy Austin Powers (while Creator/BilliePiper [[{{Corpsing}} is unable to keep her composure]]). Circumstances force Cassandra to abandon the Doctor's body, however, and she spends the rest of the episode [[BodySurf jumping]] between Rose and several other female hosts before settling on the body of Chip, her male servant (and the only voluntary host of the episode).
** At the end of Part 1 of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]] (season 30/4 episode 18), the Master (John Simm) uses an AppliedPhlebotinum machine [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UszT_L4QWII to rewrite the genetic code of every human on Earth]] (save for Wilf and Donna), changing the world's population into [[MesACrowd clones of himself]] -- the women included. Which would be terrifying, if it weren't for the hilariously OTT resulting scenes, including an [[EvilGrin evilly-grinning]] Master clone in a [[PinkIsFeminine pretty pink dress]] and an entire White House press pool of Masters (many of them in female clothing) hopping and applauding excitedly for their duplicate (who's just overridden UsefulNotes/BarackObama).
* ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'': "[[Recap/EarthFinalConflictS5E8BoonesAssassin Boon's Assassin]]" (season 5 episode 8) has the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Atavus]] turn a revived Taelon (Taelons are a OneGenderRace descended from the Atavus) into a female Atavus. [[BigBad Howlyn]] even asks Zo'or how he (the masculine pronoun is traditionally used to refer to any Taelon due to humanity's male-dominated culture) would feel as a female. Zo'or doesn't care as long as he survives. After the transformation, ''she'' absolutely delights in being a female and a sexual being. One of the first things she does is have sex with a human... before sucking out his life force. Howlyn is not amused. For reference, Zo'or was always played by a woman (Anita La Selva), so the choice of sex as an Atavus was easy in RealLife. Of course, for the most part, Zo'or still acts like the same obnoxious {{Jerkass}} he/she always was.
* ''Series/EmeraldCity'': Tip, Mombi's ward, takes "medicine" to suppress an apparent illness. [[spoiler: In "Prison of the Abject" (episode 2) Tip escapes Mombi with help from Jack and Dorothy, Tip transforms into a girl overnight. It turns out the magic was to keep his identity safe. Later, he transforms back, relieved after struggling with having a girl's body. In "Lions in Winter" (episode 8) it is revealed that Tip is actually Ozma, the missing princess of the witches. In "The Villain That's Become" (episode 9) Tip takes on female form again to gain control of the witches' sisterhood as Ozma. Both Tip and Ozma were portrayed by Jordan Loughran.]]
* ''[[Series/FantasyIsland Fantasy Island (1977)]]'' has the episode "The Big Switch / The Hooker's Holiday" (season 7, episode 2) in which Laura Walters (Katherine Helmond) wants her husband George (Vic Taybac) to experience what it is like to be a woman. Rourke sees to it that both of them get a learning experience from the fantasy by swapping their bodies. Part of the time the audience is subjected to VoicesAreMental, with each of them retaining their own voice even in the body of the other. Rourke explains that this is only between the two of them, and their voices will match their bodies to the rest of the world. The audience only hears the voice mis-match when the two are alone together, or with just Rourke or Lawrence.
* ''[[Series/FantasyIsland Fantasy Island (1998)]]'' has the episode "Estrogen" (season 1, episode 6), in which Stan Rawlins (Stan Cahill) asks Mr. Rourke to give him a better understanding of women. You can guess [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpPAFWNhuvQ what happens]]. Rourke's assistant Ariel chooses to rename Stan's new for (Liz Vassey) to Brenda.
* ''[[Series/FantasyIsland Fantasy Island (2021)]]'' has the episode "His and Hers / The Heartbreak Hotel" (season 1, episode 2) in which a couple, Daphne Madden (Odette Annable) and Zev Randall (Dave Annable), want an ultimate adventure together which they hope will rekindle their romantic life. This fantasy winds up swapping their bodies.
* Briefly suggested in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' in "[[Recap/FriendsS7E15TheOneWithJoeysNewBrain The One With Joey's New Brain]]" (season 7 episode 15) for Joey's (Matt Le Blanc's) character of Drake Ramoray in ''Days of Our Lives''; after Drake has been in a coma for five years, a storyline sees "Drake" undergo a brain transplant (the science of which is criticised by Ross) which essentially transplants the character of Jessica Lockhart into Drake Ramoray's body. Joey spends the rest of the episode getting lessons in how to be Jessica from the Cecilia Monroe (Susan Sarandon) who portrayed the female Jessica. In subsequent episodes of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', this plot twist in the soap opera seems to have been totally forgotten. All dialog suggests that Joey is back to portraying Drake Ramoray with Drake's original brain.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Once Sylar (Zachary Quinto) acquired the shape shifting ability, we saw him shift to females often enough.
** In "Into Asylum" (season 3 episode 21) Sylar acquires the ability to shape shift, and his first transformation is into a female coroner (Bonnie Burroughs).
** In "Turn And Face The Strange" (season 3 episode 22), Sylar shape-shifts into the form of Sandra Bennett (Ashley Crow).
** In "The Fifth Stage" (season 4 episode 11), Sylar shifts to become Nurse Hammer (Carlease Burke).
* ''[[Series/HeroesReborn2015 Heroes Reborn]]'': In "Sundae, Bloody Sundae" (episode 9), the Evo named Henry (Mark Gibson) will use his shape-shifting ability to transform into Erica Kravid (Rya Kihlstedt).

** Chile as ''Lola'' - 276 episodes
*** The titular character switches back to being a man, then back to a woman, then finally back to a man.
** Spain as ''Lalola'' - 160 episodes
** Turkey as ''Ece'', 26 episodes
*** The show was cancelled mid-season due to poor ratings.
** Greece as ''Lola'' - 202 episodes
** Belgium as ''Louislouise'' - 199 episodes
** Philippines as ''Lalola'' - 85 episodes
** Russia as ''Margosha'' - 240 episodes
** India as ''Bhaskar Bharti'' - 120 episodes
** Vietnam as ''Cô nàng bất đắc dĩ'' ("Reluctant Girl") - 100 episodes
*** The show was originally to have 150 episodes like the Argentine version, but ultimately concluded at 100.
** Portugal as ''Ele é Ela'' (“He is She”) - 28 episodes
*** The transformation was due to a chemical potion rather than witchcraft.
*** The audience telphone voted to decide if the series ended with the main character returning to male or remaining female. [[spoiler: He returned to male.]]
** United States as ''Eva Adams'' (2009) - 1 episode
*** A pilot was made, but never aired and wasn't picked up
** Indonesia as ''Pejantan Cantik'' ("Beautiful Stud") - 15 episodes
** Peru as ''Lalola'' - 145 episodes
** Mexico as ''Lalola'' - production just begun in 2023

* ''Series/LunaNera'': It isn't until "Light" (season 1 episode 6) [[spoiler: that Ade's little brother Valente transforms into a girl with the first dark moon (solar eclipse) since his birth. Afterwards, Valente is re-baptised as the girl Luxor. And, then Ade learns that immediately after his birth, his mother Antalia changed him into a boy hide his identity from the Benandante (an Inquisition patrol of sorts). He was raised as a boy, and neither Ade or Valente knew the truth. Both Valente and Luxor are portrayed by actress Giada Gagliardi.]]
* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': In "If Boys Were Girls" (season 4 episode 10) Lois, tired of her three boys constantly arguing, imagines them as girls instead, in a world where everything's better and they give her unconditional love. Malcolm, Reese, and Dewy (Frakie Muniz, Justin Berfiledl, Eric Per Sullivan) become Mallory, Renee, and Daisy (Lisa Folles, Mimi Paley, Jennette Mc Curdy). But, as the fantasy progresses, she realizes that girls would be bad in different ways -- bitchy and keeping all their secrets from her -- and that her boys love her in their own genuine way. (The episode is also funny to watch to see Hal in a fatsuit and Francis, the eldest son, as daughter Frances (both portrayed by Christopher Masterson) who mentions husband Pablo (presumably a male version of his wife, Piama (Emy Coligado)).
* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': In "Switching Places" (season 1 episode 16) , it happened to Kimberly and Billy when his machine went haywire, subjecting them to a FreakyFridayFlip. (Billy fixed it before the situation at the end of the episode, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot although some fans thought the plot could have been explored much further.]])
* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'': In season 3 episode 1, [[spoiler:Curtis (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett)]] gains the ability to change genders. Though he retains the ability until [[spoiler: his death in season 4 episode 4]], his ability and female form, [[spoiler: Melissa (Kehinde Fadipe)]], was only shown in season 3 episodes 1, 2, 5, and 6.

** Buddha, in order to become more "compassionate", appears in his female incarnation in "Monkey Goes Wild Around Heaven" (season 1, episode 1), "Monkey Turns Nursemaid" (season 1 episode 2), "Pigsy's Ten Thousand Ladies" (season 2 episode 1), and "Mothers" (season 2, episode 21).
** In "Monkey Turns Nursemaid" (season 1, episode 2), the bodhisattva Kuan-yin the Compassionate (a "goddess") is only seen in her "male incarnation", in pale blue robes and a lacy veil.
** In "The Most Monstrous Monster" (season 1 episode 16) Monkey disguises Sandy as the woman Chun Sha in order to trick the Unicorn King.
** In "The Country of Nightmares" (season 1 episode 25) the priest Tripitaka is a man (played by a woman) who when entering the City of Nightmares is magically transformed into a woman as a disguise. (And is promptly hit on by Pigsy).
* The Gumbies (voiced by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' briefly turn into girl-Gumbies at the end of "The Buzz Aldrin Show" (season 2 episode 4) for no particular reason. Their only reaction upon turning back is "OOH! THAT WAS FUN!"
* ''Series/MrQueen'': This is a Korean remake of the Chinese series ''Series/GoPrincessGo''. Bong-hwan, a man, [[MentalTimeTravel time-travels into the body]] of So-yong, a woman..
* ''Series/{{NTSFSDSUV}}'': Parodied. In Season 1 Episode 3 "Exes and Oh-No's!" we learn that Agent Trent Hauser used to be married to an attractive female agent whom he worked with on a mission. She later got a sex change that transformed her into an overweight guy. Cue UnresolvedSexualTension between the two. S/he wasn't even originally a woman, apparently [[RaceLift having once been a black man]].
* ''Series/OutOfThisWorld1987'': In "Evie/Stevie" (season 3 episode 11), Evie (Maureen Flannigan) turned herself into "Stevie" (also Maureen Flannigan) to provide a date for her chronically single best friend. Yes, this was real.

** "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS2E04WhatPriceGloria What Price Gloria?]]" (season 2 episode 4) - Sam leaps into secretary Samantha Stormer.
*** An abbreviated version of this episode's beginning was shown (erroneously) at the end of "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS1E09PlayItAgainSeymour Play It Again Seymour]]" (season 1 episode 9) as though this would be the next episode after it.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS2E13AnotherMother Another Mother]]" (season 2 episode 13) - Sam leaps into suburban mother Linda Bruckner
*** An abbreviated version of this episode's beginning was shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS2E12AnimalFrat Animal Frat]]" (season 2 episode 12) to tease the next episode.
*** The abbreviated version of this episode's beginning was also shown (erroneously) at the end of "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS3E11Runaway Runaway]] (season 3 episode 11)".
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS3E06MissDeepSouth Miss Deep South]]" (season 3 episode 6) - Sam leaps into beauty contestant Darlene Monte.
*** An abbreviated version of this episode's beginning was shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS3E05TheBoogieman The Boogieman]]" (season 3 episode 5) to tease the next episode.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS3E128AndAHalfMonths 8 1/2 Months]]" (season 3 episode 12) - Sam leaps into unwed mother Billie Jean Crockett.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS4E06Raped Raped]]" (season 4 episode 6) - Sam leaps into rape victim Katie Mc Bain.
*** An abbreviated version of this episode's beginning was shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS4E05PermanentWave Permanent Wave]]" (season 4 episode 5) to tease the next episode.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS4E15ASongForTheSoul A Song For The Soul]]" (season 4 episode 15) - Sam leaps into singer Cheree Watkins.
*** An abbreviated version of this episode's beginning was shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS4E14TheLastGunfighter The Last Gunfghter]]" (season 4 episode 14) to tease the next episode.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS5E13Liberation Liberation]]" (season 5 episode 13) - Sam leaps into feminist Margaret Sanders
*** An abbreviated version of this episode's beginning was shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS5E12ATaleOfTwoSweeties A Tale of Two Sweeties]]" (season 5 episode 12) to tease the next episode.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS5E14DrRuth Dr Ruth]]" (season 5 episode 14) - Sam leaps into Dr Ruth Westheimer
*** An abbreviated version of this episode's beginning was shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS5E13Liberation Liberation]]" (season 5 episode 13) to tease the next episode.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS5E17RevengeOfTheEvilLeaper Revenge of the Evil Leaper]]" (season 5 episode 17) - Sam leaps into female convict Elizabeth Tate, while female evil leaper Zoey leaps into male warden Clifton Myers.
*** An abbreviated version of this episode's beginning (Sam's leap into Elizabeth Tate) was shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS5E16ReturnOfTheEvilLeaper Return of the Evil Leaper]]" (season 5 episode 16) to tease the next episode.

** "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E4ADecentProposal A Decent Proposal]]" (season 1 episode 4) - Ben leaps into bounty hunter Eva Sandoval.
*** The beginning leap for this episode was also shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E3SomebodyUpThereLikesBen Somebody Up There Likes Ben]]" (season 1 episode 3) to tease the next episode.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E10PagingDrSong Paging Dr Song]]" (season 1 episode 10) - Ben leaps into Doctor Alexandra Tomkinson.
*** The beginning leap for this episode was also shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E9FellowTravelers Fellow Travelers]]" (season 1 episode 9) to tease the next episode.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E12LetThemPlay Let Them Play]]" (season 1 episode 12) - Ben leaps into male basektball coach Carlos Mendéz who has a trans daughter Gia.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E13FamilyStyle Family Style]]" (season 1 episode 13) - Ben leaps into cook Kamini Prasad.
*** The beginning leap for this episode was also shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E12LetThemPlay Let Them Play]]" (season 1 episode 12) to tease the next episode.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E15BenSongForTheDefense Ben Song For The Defense]]" (seasib 1 episode 15) - Ben leaps into public defender Aleyda Ramirez.
*** The beginning leap for this episode was also shown at the end of the preceding episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E14SOS SOS]]" (season 1 episode 14) to tease the next episode.
** "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E17TheFriendlySkies The Friendly Skies]]" (eason 1 episode 17) - Ben leaps into flight attendant Lois Mitchell

** In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIBalanceOfPower Balance of Power]]" (season 1 episode 3), the hologram Arnold Rimmer changes his appearance to that of Lister's dead love interest, Kochanski. Even though he is a hologram he is quite able to... [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman touch himself]].
** In season 3, ship's computer Holly redrew himself after an encounter with his DistaffCounterpart. [[spoiler:And this lasted until became male again. Holly was male in seasons 1-2, female in seasons 3-5, did not appear in season 6 and most of season 7. Holly then reappeared male in the last episode of season 7, remaining male through season 8. After season 8, Holly only appeared in the final episode of season 12 and the 2020 special episode "The Promised Land", both times male]].
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': In "Sabrina The Teenage Boy" (season 2, episode 6), Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart), Hilda (Caroline Rhea) and Zelda (Beth Broderick) use a magical potion in the form of a soft drink called "Boy Brew" to become temporarily male, though Zelda only briefly. The regular actresses are made up to portray their male versions.
* ''Series/SecretGarden'': This is a major plot device of this Korean drama series, in which it turns out that [[spoiler: the female lead's dead father]] engineered a body swap between her and her soulmate, as a part of an elaborate plan to [[spoiler: heal her from grief caused by his death, which was caused saving the soulmate's life]]. This is a complex love story with many different plot elements beyond the GenderBender switch. They will be switched to the incorrect bodies three times over the 20 episodes, each iteration powerfully shifting the complex dynamics between them and with those around them. They first [[spoiler: drink the wine]] mid episode 5.
** The first period is from the end of episode 5 through the end of episode 8.
** The second time they are in each other's bodies lasts for the latter half of episode 14. [[spoiler: During this switch, Choi 'oska' Woo Young and Lim Jong Su discover the transformation.]]
** The third and final switch period occurs over the first half of episode 18 [[spoiler: when Kim Joo Won sacrifices his life so Gil Ra Im can have one.]]
* In ''Series/SecretGardenThailand'' (2019) there is something in the water. This Thai remake of the Korean television series ''Series/SecretGarden'' (see above) has a CEO and a stuntwoman have their bodies switched after they are given a bottle of water "to go" at a restaurant in Japan. This is a complex love story with plotlines beyond the GenderBender trope. They are in the other person's body three times after they [[spoiler: drink the water]] at the end of episode 6.
** The first time they are in each other's bodies lasts from the beginning of episode 7 through episode 11.
** The second time occurs for the last half of episode 17.
** The third period with their bodies swapped lasts the last half of episode 19, [[spoiler: when Thanat sacrifices his own life so that Vina can have one.]]
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': In "[[Recap/StargateAtlantisS02E04Duet Duet]]" (season 2 episode 4), due to a malfunctioning Wraith capture mechanism, Rodney Mc Kay (David Hewlett) and Laura Cadman (Jaime Ray Newman) wind up sharing the same body (Rodney's) for a while.
* Throughout ''Series/StargateSG1'', Earth's stargate teams must deal with a parasitic species known as the Goa'uld who have possessed human hosts and live as mythological people (mostly gods and goddesses) of Earth's past. The parasitic Goa'uld (and their more benign cousins the Tok'ra) are predominantly males but take either male or female human hosts. The few female "queens" seem to only take female hosts. In "[[Recap/StargateSG1S4E13TheCurse The Curse]]" (season 4 episode 13) the male Egyptian deity Osiris acquires a new female host Sarah Gardner (Anna-Louise Plowman). She is a recurring villain appearing in "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E4TheFifthMan The Fifth Man]]" (season 5 episode 4), "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E15Summit Summit Part 1]]" (season 5 episode 15), "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E16LastStand Last Stand Part 2]]" (season 5 episode 16), "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E21Meridian Meridian]]" (season 5 episode 21), and "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E22Revelations Revelations]]" (season 5 episode 22). In "[[Recap/StargateSG1S7E15Chimera Chimera]]" (season 7 episode 15) Osiris is finally removed from the unwilling host Sarah Gardner.

** In a minor example, Dax by way of TheNthDoctor. Dax is a Trill symbiote who inhabits humanoid hosts. In the series, Dax first inhabits Jadzia. Later in the series Dax inhabits Ezri. Both of them are female, but Sisko knew her in her previous male Curzon incarnation and calls her "old man" throughout the series. In order, Dax's hosts were Lela (F), Tobin (M), Emony (F), Audrid (F), Torias (M), Joran (M), Curzon (M), Jadzia (F), Verad (M - temporary), Ezri (F), and Yedrin (M - alternate reality). In one way or another, all of these hosts are met in the series.
*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E01E02Emissary the pilot]]" (season 1 episode 2) we meet host Curson in a brief flashback.
*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E04InvasiveProcedures Invasive Procedures]]" (season 2 episode 4) a male Trill host steals Jadzia's symbiote to become Verad Dax.
*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E04Equilibrium Equilibrium]]" (season 3 episode 4), we meet Joran for the first time in a flashback.
*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E25Facets Facets]]" (season 3 episode 25) we meet all of Jadzia Dax's previous male and female hosts except Verad when their spirits possess various other ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' characters. The host spirits all possess persons of the same sex except for Audrid (female) who possesses Quark (male).
*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E22ChildrenOfTime Children of Time]]" (season 5 episode 22), we meet the alternate reality male incarnation Yedrin Dax.
*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E13FieldOfFire Field of Fire]]" (season 7 episode 13) we meet Joran for a second time in flashback, this time portrayed by a different actor.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E23ProfitAndLace Profit and Lace]]" (season 6 episode 23), Quark (for reasons having to do with a Ferengi diplomat) has to have a temporary sex change. Not only does he pop out of Sickbay as a physiologically complete Ferengi woman, his ''personality'' has [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody suddenly altered]] to be completely feminine. [[ThirdLawOfGenderBending Cue the parade of human female stereotype behaviors]].
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E22TackingIntoTheWind Tacking into the Wind]]" (season 7 episode 22), during an espionage mission against the Dominion, Odo (a shapeshifter) briefly assumes the form of the Female Changeling.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E23TheHost The Host]]" (season 4 episode 23), a symbiotic Trill diplomat named Odan and Dr. Crusher fall in love. The Trill symbiote's host dies, and the Enterprise must rendezvous with a Trill ship so that Odan can be implanted in a new host. On the Trill ship, it turns out the new host is female. The sex of the host is of no concern to the symbiote, but it makes the romance with Beverly Crusher untenable.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E24TurnaboutIntruder Turnabout Intruder]]" (season 3 episode 24), Dr. Janice Lester tricks Captain Kirk into a device that allows her to exchange bodies with him. She tries to take control of the ''Enterprise'', thinking she is just as capable of command as he is.
* In ''Series/TeenAngel'' "Date With An Angel" (episode 2), Steve decides to ask his crush Jessica, a popular [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders cheerleader]], on a date. Marty is afraid he'll be rejected, so he impersonates Jessica on the phone and agrees to the date. Rather than admit his deceit, he decides to morph into Jessica's double and go on the date in her place. The episode ends on a rather sweet note, as the date with faux-Jessica gives Steve the confidence to ask out the ''real'' one (who, as it turns out, has a great deal in common with him).
* ''Series/TomicaHeroRescueForce'': "Kyosuke Heartbroken: Who is the Number One Bro?" (Episode 44) has the BigBad, inspired by the sex-changing ability of clownfish (see the fish example under "Other"), create a virus to turn all men into women, thus robbing humanity of their ability to reproduce, and eventually causing our extinction. She's stopped, naturally, but not before she manages to transform the male heroes and many others. Rather than replace the male actors with female ones, transformed males were portrayed by the male actors dressed and made up as women.

** Another episode has Jay in drag (a supermodel with his voice).

* ''Series/{{Upload}}'': In "The Grey Market" (season 1, episode 5), Dylan attempts to update his avatar to his chronological age. The dead people are uploaded to the virtual world to look like optimized versions of what they did alive, and as he died at age eight he's stuck there despite being chronologically eighteen. Dylan has a black market "puberty hack" installed. It works, but because he didn't think to check what sex the patch was designed for it also turns him into a young woman. It's eventually reversed through emergency coding, but it leaves him with a renewed appreciation for women's issues over objectification... especially in the wake of strolling around topless before catching on to the change.

* ''[[Series/WeirdScience Weird Science (1994-1997)]]'':
** At the end of the pilot episode "She's Alive" (season 1 episode 1), after Wyatt (the cautious one) tells Lisa (hot computer-created genie) that he's happy and she disappears, Gary (slacker) is ticked and states he'd only be happy if Wyatt was a killer babe. At that point, Wyatt is turned into a hot blonde. [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome And then cue credits before anything interesting happens.]]
** In the episode "Feminine Mistake" (season 1 episode 5), Wyatt and Gary want to understand women better, but aren't satisfied with Lisa's help. So, of course, Lisa makes them look like girls. "Wynona" and "Garyette" get hit on by everyone including Wyatt's brother Chett. PlayedForLaughs as Wyatt and Gary see themselves as girls only in mirrors and the audience sees them as girls when they flirt with their minor friends (or have a hissy fit.) But when boys try to [[HoYay pick them up....]]
** In "Quantum Wyatt" (season 3 episode 13), Gary is accidentally zapped into a phone sex worker.
** In the episode "Grumpy Old Genie" (season 4 episode 6), an underage online thief steals Lisa's image, replacing it with Abe Vigoda. (Yes, TV's ''Fish''.).
** In "Bee in There" (season 5 episode 8), Wyatt asks Lisa to not only send himself and Gary back in time to 1987 but to leap them into their fathers a la ''Series/QuantumLeap'' so they can teach their younger selves how to throw a baseball. Gary, however, leaps into his mother. This leads his dad and Wyatt's mother to believe that their spouses are having an affair.

** "Third Wheel" (season 3 episode 14): Justin shape-shifts into Alex to trick Harper into helping him finish his float. The fact that he had no moral hesitation in willingly turning himself into his sister is surprising.
** "Three Maxes and a Little Lady" (season 4 episode 5): Max transforms thanks to a mutant spell cast by Alex and Justin. He remains female for five more episodes until "Back To Max" (season 4 episode 10) when the spell is undone. Overlaps with FountainOfYouth; as "Maxine" is much younger than Max is normally.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': We have the [[LampshadedTrope aptly titled]] "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E14GenderBender Gender Bender]]" (season 1 episode 14), which revolves around a community of humanoid aliens with the ability to change genders at will. Said aliens secrete unusually high levels of {{Pheromones}}, which enables them to easily attract human sex partners; unfortunately, it also has a tendency to make [[OutWithABang the act itself fatal]].

* Briefly suggested in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' in "[[Recap/FriendsS7E15TheOneWithJoeysNewBrain The One With Joey's New Brain]]" (season 7 episode 15) for Joey's (Matt Le Blanc's) character of Drake Ramoray ''Days of Our Lives''; after Drake has been in a coma for five years, a storyline sees "Drake" undergo a brain transplant (the science of which is criticised by Ross) which essentially transplants the character of Jessica Lockhart into Drake Ramoray's body. Joey spends the rest of the episode getting lessons in how to be Jessica from the Cecilia Monroe (Susan Sarandon) who portrayed the female Jessica. In subsequent episodes of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', this plot twist in the soap opera seems to have been totally forgotten. All dialog suggests that Joey is back to portraying Drake Ramoray with Drake's original brain.

* Briefly suggested in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' in "[[Recap/FriendsS7E15TheOneWithJoeysNewBrain The One With Joey's New Brain]]" (season 7 episode 15) for Joey's (Matt LeBlanc's) character of Drake Ramoray ''Days of Our Lives''; after Drake has been in a coma for five years, a storyline sees "Drake" undergo a brain transplant (the science of which is criticised by Ross) which essentially transplants the character of Jessica Lockhart into Drake Ramoray's body. Joey spends the rest of the episode getting lessons in how to be Jessica from the Cecilia Monroe (Susan Sarandon) who portrayed the female Jessica. In subsequent episodes of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', this plot twist in the soap opera seems to have been totally forgotten. All dialog suggests that Joey is back to portraying Drake Ramoray with Drake's original brain.

* ''[[Series/FantasyIsland Fantasy Island (1998)]]'' has the episode "Estrogen" (season 1, episode 6), in which Stan Rawlins (Stan Cahill) asks Mr. Rourke to give him a better understanding of women. You can guess [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpPAFWNhuvQ what happens]]. Ariel chooses to name the new her Brenda (Liz Vassey).

* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': In "Sabrina The Teenage Boy" (season 2, episode 6), Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart), Hilda (Caroline Rhea) and Zelda (Beth Broderick) use a magical potion in the form of a soft drink called "Boy Brew" to become temporarily male though Zelda only briefly. The regular actresses are made up to portray their male versions.

* ''Series/OutOfThisWorld1987'': In "Evie/Stevie" (season 3 episode 11), Evie turned herself into "Stevie" to provide a date for her chronically single best friend. Yes, this was real.

* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': In "Sabrina The Teenage Boy" (season 2, episode 6), Sabrina, Hilda and Zelda use a magical potion in the form of a soft drink called "Boy Brew" to become temporarily male. Though Zelda only briefly.

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': In "[[Recap/StargateAtlantisS02E04Duet Duet]]" (season 2 episode 4), due to a malfunctioning Wraith capture mechanism, Rodney Mc Kay and Laura Cadman wind up sharing the same body for a while.
* Throughout ''Series/StargateSG1'', Earth's stargate teams must deal with a parasitic species known as the Goa'uld who have possessed human hosts and live as mythological people (mostly gods and goddesses) of Earth's past. The parasitic Goa'uld (and their more benign cousins the Tok'ra) are predominantly males but take either male or female human hosts. The few female "queens" seem to only take female hosts. In "[[Recap/StargateSG1S4E13TheCurse The Curse]]" (season 4 episode 13) the male Egyptian deity Osiris acquires a new female host (Sarah Gardner). She is a recurring villain appearing in "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E4TheFifthMan The Fifth Man]]" (season 5 episode 4), "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E15Summit Summit Part 1]]" (season 5 episode 15), "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E16LastStand Last Stand Part 2]]" (season 5 episode 16), "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E21Meridian Meridian]]" (season 5 episode 21), and "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E22Revelations Revelations]]" (season 5 episode 22). In "[[Recap/StargateSG1S7E15Chimera Chimera]]" (season 7 episode 15) Osiris is finally removed from the unwilling host Sarah Gardner.

** In "The Most Monstrous Monster" (season 1 episode 16) Sandy disguises as the woman Chun Sha in order to trick the Unicorn King.

* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'': In season 3 episode 1), [[spoiler:Curtis (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett)]] gains the ability to change genders. This lasts until [[spoiler: his death in season 4 episode 4 (unnamed)]]. This ability was only shown in season 3 episodes 1, 2, 5, and 6. [[spoiler: Melissa (Kehinde Fadipe) was his female form.]]

* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'': In season 3 episode 1), [[spoiler:Curtis]] gains the ability to change genders. This lasts until [[spoiler:his death in season 4 episode 4 (unnamed)]]. This ability was only shown in season 3 episodes 1, 2, 5, and 6.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Once Sylar acquired the shape shifting ability, we saw him shift to females often enough.
** In "Into Asylum" (season 3 episode 21) Sylar acquires the ability to shape shift, and his first transformation is into a female coroner.
** In "Turn And Face The Strange" (season 3 episode 22), Sylar shape-shifts into the form of Sandra Bennett.
** In "The Fifth Stage" (season 4 episode 11), Sylar shifts to become Nurse Hammer.
* ''[[Series/HeroesReborn2015 Heroes Reborn]]'': In "Sundae, Bloody Sundae" (episode 9), the Evo named Henry will use his shape-shifting ability to transform into Erica Kravid.

* The Gumbies on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' briefly turn into girl-Gumbies at the end of "The Buzz Aldrin Show" (season 2 episode 4) for no particular reason. Their only reaction upon turning back is "OOH! THAT WAS FUN!"

* Briefly suggested in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' in "[[Recap/FriendsS7E15TheOneWithJoeysNewBrain The One With Joey's New Brain]]" (season 7 episode 15) for Joey's character of Drake Ramoray ''Days of Our Lives''; after Drake has been in a coma for five years, a storyline sees "Drake" undergo a brain transplant (the science of which is criticised by Ross) which essentially transplants the character of Jessica Lockhart into Drake Ramoray's body. Joey spends the rest of the episode getting lessons in how to be Jessica from the Cecilia Monroe who portrayed the female Jessica. In subsequent episodes of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', this plot twist in the soap opera seems to have been totally forgotten. All dialog suggests that Joey is back to portraying Drake Ramoray with Drake's original brain.

** In season 2 episode 1 (patch 2.1) we meet a female member of the Devil's Cheerleaders. [[spoiler: Later in episode 1 (patch 2.2) we learn this is Steven, who met a wizard that changed his avatar. He'd meant for his new avatar to be male, but something was lost in communication.]]

* ''[[Series/FantasyIsland Fantasy Island (1977)]]'' has the episode "The Big Switch / The Hooker's Holiday" (season 7, episode 2) in which a wife (Katherine Helmond) wants her husband (Vic Taybac) to experience what it is like to be a woman. Rourke sees to it that both of them get a learning experience from the fantasy by swapping their bodies. Part of the time the audience is subjected to VoicesAreMental, with each of them retaining their own voice even in the body of the other. Rourke explains that this is only between the two of them, and their voices will match their bodies to the rest of the world. The audience only hears the voice mis-match when the two are alone together, or with just Rourke or Lawrence.
* ''[[Series/FantasyIsland Fantasy Island (1998)]]'' has the episode "Estrogen" (season 1, episode 6), in which a man (Stan Cahill) asks Mr. Rourke to give him a better understanding of women. Guess [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpPAFWNhuvQ what happens]]. (actress: Liz Vassey)
* ''[[Series/FantasyIsland Fantasy Island (2021)]]'' has the episode "His and Hers / The Heartbreak Hotel" (season 1, episode 2) in which a couple (Daphne Madden and Zev Randall) want an ultimate adventure together which they hope will rekindle their romantic life. This fantasy winds up swapping their bodies.

** Discussed in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E6Him Him]]" (season 7 episode 6), after an unpopular boy uses a magic jacket to make any woman who sees him wearing it [[LoveIsInTheAir fall madly in love with him]]; the magic takes effect on Willow, who (after being reminded that she's a lesbian) decides to turn him into a girl so that they can be together. Fortunately, Xander interrupts her before the magic ritual is completed.

** "Three Maxes and a Little Lady" (season 4 episode 5): Max transforms thanks to a mutant spell cast by Alex and Justin. He remains female for five more episodes until "Back To Max" (season 4 episode 10) when the spell is undone. Overlaps with FountainOfYouth; as "Maxine", he's much younger than he is normally.

* ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'': This sequel series has Ben Song leaping into men and women of the past much as Sam Beckett did in the original series. Regardless of who Ben has leapt into, the audience sees Raymond Lee in the role, only getting a glimpse of the person's real appearance in a reflection or photograph. So far (The series is ongoing.), there have been five female leaps, and one male leap that included trans character. In most cases, the an episode's initial leap is shown at the end of the preceding episode, effectively doubling the number of gender-bending episodes.

** In "Into Asylum" (season 3 episode 21) Sylar acquires the ability to shape shift, and his first transformation is into a female agent.

** In "The Most Monstrous Monster" (season 1 episode 16) Sandy into a woman Chun Sha in order to trick the Unicorn King.

** In "The Most Monstrous Monster" (season 1 episode 16) Monkey transforms into a woman in order to trick the Unicorn King.

*** And, in the post-season 13 special [[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor "The Power of the Doctor"]], the Thirteenth Doctor (Creator/JodieWhittaker) regenerates back to male as the Fourteenth Doctor (Creator/DavidTennant).

*** And, in the post-season 13 special [[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor "The Power of the Doctor"]], the Thirteenth Doctor (Creator/JodieWhittaker) regenerates back to the male Fourteenth Doctor (Creator/DavidTennant).

*** And, in the post-season 13 special [[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor "The Power of the Doctor"]], the Doctor regenerates back to a male form portrayed by David Tennant.

* ''Series/TomicaHeroRescueForce'': "Kyosuke Heartbroken: Who is the Number One Bro?" (Episode 44) has the BigBad, inspired by the sex-changing ability of clownfish (see the fish example under "Other"), create a virus to turn all men into women, thus robbing humanity of their ability to reproduce, and eventually causing our extinction. She's stopped, naturally, but not before she manages to transform the male heroes. Rather than replace the male actors with female ones, transformed males were portrayed by the male actors dressed and made up as women.

* ''Series/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVsKeisatsuSentaiPatranger'': In Episode 11, the Patrangers find themselves forcibly changed into the opposite gender by a Gangler, with Keiichiro and Sakuya changed into women (temporarily renamed Keiko and Sakumi) and Tsukasa into a man (she retains her name, [[GenderBlenderName since it's unigender]]). Thankfully, they manage to return to their proper genders by the episode's end.

* ''Series/TomicaHeroRescueForce'': "Kyosuke Heartbroken: Who is the Number One Bro?" (Episode 44) has the BigBad, inspired by the sex-changing ability of clownfish (see the fish example under "Other"), create a virus to turn all men into women, thus robbing humanity of their ability to reproduce, and eventually causing our extinction. She's stopped, naturally, but not before she manages to transform the male heroes.

** "Third Wheel" (season 3 episode 14): Justin shape-shifts into Alex to trick Harper into helping him finish his float. The fact that he had no moral hesitation in willingly turning himself into his sister is surprising.

*** An abbreviated verion of this episode's beginning was shown (erroneously) at the end of "[[Recap/QuantumLeapS1E09PlayItAgainSeymour Play It Again Seymour]]" (season 1 episode 9) as though this would be the next episode after it.

** In "An Invisible Thread" (season 3 episode 25), due to some feedback, Sylar is stuck constantly shifting through all his past bodies until he's tranquilized.