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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Jack Chalker]]'s ''[[River of Dancing Gods]]'' series literally has variation 2 written right into the physical laws of its universe. The one character who resists is desperately unhappy.
* Meanwhile, Chalker's ''[[Well World]]'' series invokes, justifies and otherwise [[Playing with a Trope|plays with]] this trope. A few examples:
** Ruthless businessman/drug dealer Datham Hain is transformed into a female of a species of sentient insects, and is promptly [[Mind Control]]led into being a proper female as defined by that society.
** Wu Julee is a woman who gets inserted into a man's body at the end of the first book, but other than retaining her sexual orientation toward women doesn't seem to change all that much personality-wise.
** Dr. Gilgram Zinder, once he masters and internalizes the Markovian equations that define and control the universe, spends several centuries being every type and gender of creature that strikes him, including a turn as a high-priced female courtesan. When we meet him (again) at the end of that experience, the only change to his personality is that he seems quite a bit more relaxed.
* Despite being a serial [[Gender Bender]] herself, Hildy Johnson, the protagonist of [[John Varley]]'s ''Steel Beach'' insists that there are still "girl things" and "boy things" when it comes to dress and behavior, because otherwise there would be little point in changing gender in the first place. This serves to underscore that [[Easy Sex Change]] has become so easy in Hildy's world (you can get a sex change in a beauty shop or a tattoo parlor) that some people are willing to change sex just to facilitate a relationship or even just to suit their clothes.
* Initially played straight in Justin Lieber's ''Beyond Rejection'' as required by a masquerade; justified later when it's revealed that the "masquerade" was actually part of an [[All Just a Dream|artificially-induced therapeutic dream]] intended to enable the protagonist to adapt to an involuntary [[Gender Bender]].
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