Genderswap
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Genderswap or "Gender-fuck" refers to Fan fiction stories (or fan art) where the gender of a prominent character (or more than one character) is reversed. The most common is Male-to-Female conversion. The set up for Genderswap can be done as an entirely AU version (the character is posited to have always been the opposite gender from that established by canon), or the character can find themselves suddenly another gender by magical or supernatural means. Occasionally in more recent fics, a character may choose to undergo a sex-change operation as well, or may have been living as a transgendered person for years.
Genderswap occasionally brings controversy not because of the switch itself, but because of how any given author might handle (or fail to handle) the politics of gender identity. Accusation of feminizing male characters, of misogyny in female-to-male conversions, of homophobia for forcing female traits on a character rather than deal with the characters in a m/m slash relationship, have all been tossed out at one time or another.
Mostly, Genderswap is considered a form of Crack!Fic.
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- I Am a Patient Boy by onelittlesleep. Frank Iero/Girl!Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance)
- Last Man Standing by Hector Rashbaum (featuring The Police, Bon Jovi, Foo Fighters and Iron Maiden
- Venus as a Boy by flimsy. Jon/Spencer, genderswap (girl!Spence) for Panic! At the Disco
[edit] Stargate: Atlantis
- At the Violet Hour (Virgin) by linaerys. Something in an abandoned lab changes John. Genderf*ck PWP.
- Maybe Oracle by spike21. Teyla's not invisible.
- Tab A Slot B by fiercelydreamed. The men spend the entire meeting trying not to stare at each other's tits and failing miserably.
[edit] External Links
- But... what happens if Edy Blake and Eddie Blake meet?: seriousfic in scans_daily on March 12, 2009
- XXY: The Marvel Mutant Genderswap Project
