Sex-changing characters
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
- 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