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*[[Kelley Eskridge]], "[[And Salome Danced]]" (one character, Jo(e) Sand, changes sex and gender at will) | *[[Kelley Eskridge]], "[[And Salome Danced]]" (one character, Jo(e) Sand, changes sex and gender at will) | ||
* [[Thomas T. Thomas]], ''[[Crygender]]'' - Protagonist is a shapeshifter | * [[Thomas T. Thomas]], ''[[Crygender]]'' - Protagonist is a shapeshifter | ||
; Transgender identity | |||
* "Amante Dorée" by [[Sarah Monette]] (in ''[[Somewhere Beneath Those Waves]]'') | |||
[[Category:Gender and sex themes]] | [[Category:Gender and sex themes]] | ||
[[category:Themes and tropes by name]] | [[category:Themes and tropes by name]] | ||
Latest revision as of 17:39, 22 April 2012
Novels in which only a few or exceptional characters change sex / are transgender. May involve the study of a single character who changes sex; may involve the story of a character who can change sex at will.
- Permanent sex change
- Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign (1999) (a minor female character undergoes a sex change in order to get around primogeniture)
- Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve
- Jack M. Chalker - many novels include some sort of sex change
- Wraeththu by Storm Constantine when infected change sex to a male-looking hermaphroditic sex; this is a species-wide change but focus can be on transformation of an individual
- "The Travails of Princess Stephen" by Jane Lindskold (2007), in Pandora's Closet, pp.126-144 - Stephanie, born Stephen, starts passing as a woman and eventually marries in her great grandmother's wedding gown, without ever telling her fiance that she is a man; on the wedding night, she discovers that her great grandmother's wedding gown transformed her into the woman she believed she was.
- Temporary one-time sex change
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch - episode in which several characters are transformed to male by drinking "Boy Brew"
- Lynn Flewelling, The Bone Doll's Twin and Hidden Warrior
- Geoff Ryman, The Warrior Who Carried Life (magical transformation of female to male body; eventually transforms back)
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1928) (and see Sally Potter's film adaptation, (1993)) - a man decides not to grow old; one day he wakes up as a woman
- Changes sex repeatedly
- Ranma 1/2 - Protagonist, Ranma, a male, is cursed to change to female periodically
- Can change sex repeatedly at will
- Samuel R. Delany's Triton (sex changes are possible; among other references, a male character grows functional breasts to nurse a child)
- Kelley Eskridge, "And Salome Danced" (one character, Jo(e) Sand, changes sex and gender at will)
- Thomas T. Thomas, Crygender - Protagonist is a shapeshifter
- Transgender identity
- "Amante Dorée" by Sarah Monette (in Somewhere Beneath Those Waves)