From: an2166@anon.penet.fi (Michelle)
Subject: gender swapping
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 23:00:00 GMT



I hereby repost an article I read almost two years ago, regarding the
swapping of genders on TV (television).  It was originally posted to
alt.sex.  I don't know if the original poster's address is still good
or if he still wants feedback.

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Awhile back I asked for responses on TV shows, Movies, books and stories that
contained gender swapping. I got allot of responses, and I THANK all who 
responded. Following is a list of what I received and/or new about myself. 
Some of the stories that I know about contain short descriptions. Others I 
describe something I remember, but not the title or author. This list is
definitely not 100% accurate, but for those interested it is a starting point.

Mark Phaedrus at about the same time also asked for response in a more general
arena (transformations in general). He posted his list to rec.arts.sf-lovers.
This list contains some of the titles listed there but not all. The listing
is divided into MOVIES, BOOKS, TV SHOWS.

Movies:
        Goodbye Charlie
	Switch
	Cleo/Leo
                 (All three of the above use the same theme. They are listed
		  in my opinion from sweetest to rauchniest(sp?). The theme
		  is Male chauvenist killed and brought back as women)

	Deathstalker (one scene, flunky turned into Barbi Benton)

        Frankenstein Created Women   (Movie had Peter Cushing I believe. It
	     had a man being hanged for a crime The doctor took his body 
	     after death and saved his soul in an electrical field. He then
	     waited for a person to die. It turned out to be the woman the 
	     guy had been with the night before. The person gets back enough
	     memory to avenge the people that were responsible for his death.
             The movie was set about the 1800's. No cars or electricity.)

       Dr. Jekyll and Miss Hyde. (Dr. is bent on finding the cure for aging
	    He develops a serum from dead females. He tests it first on a
	    fly. The fly lives at least eight times longer than normal. The
	    problem is he put a male fly in jar. But now there are eggs in
	    the sealed jar. The Dr. ignores this and experiments on himself.
	    He is transformed into a woman. But goes back to a man after awhile
	    , but the evil female side tries to be the dominant person. She
	    comes out and tries to kill more females for more serum.)

       Something Wicked This Way Comes (seem to remember in this movies that
	    a man went to the carnival and was transformed into the bearded
	    woman.)

       Myra Breckenridge (Capote. Book also. Starred Rex Reed, and Racquel
			  Welch as the post-op Myra)

       Ghost (Whoopi is twiced possessed by a man)

       All of Me (Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin)

       Turnabout ( B&W, saw on tv awhile back don't remember who was in it)

       Although not gender changing in the physical sense
         Victor/Victoria
         Tootsie

Books/Stories:
	Chalker books in general
          Idenity Matrix (This book has main character getting switch by
			  aliens that use this technique to invade earth.
			  They usually kill to victim after the switch,
			  but they failed with him)

          The Red Tape War (Chalker, Resnick, Effinger. Science Fiction comdey)

          Downtiming, The Night Side (Time travel story where when you go back
				      in time you get deposited in a body of
				      a person who had no effect history. The
				      longer you stay the more you become that
				      person.)
          River of the Dancing God series ( Over the four books the Male lead
				      character get changed into females due
				      to a were curse that changes him into
				      the closest living thing during the 
				      rising of a full moon. He also eventally
				      gets turned into the Goddess of the wood
				      nymphs)

	  Well Series

	  Soulrider Series

          Chalker' other books have it but not some much on the main character.
          It is usually a female being sexually enhanced in some way.

      I Will Fear No Evil (Heinlein. Most everyone agrees that this book
			     is not worth reading)

      Turnabout (Thorne Smith. Also made into movie and short tv series)

      To Live Again (Silverberg. Person's mind is read out regularly at
		       a central library. Once that person dies their person-
		       ality is read into one person. Most influentual people
		       of the time have multiple persons read into them.)

      Star Trek short story (Don't remember the title, I have lost the book.
		       it has Trek crew beaming down to a planet the has a
		       beacon inviting people to the planet. They get knocked
		       out and wake up with there X or Y chromosone switched.
		       This happens to all the main characters. The strongest
		       person of each ship gets a double YY chromosone. They
		       find a Klingon crew that also got trapped there. The
		       planet begins to beam down the crew after the landing
		       crew is changed. It also traps the ships there.)

      Beyond Rejection (Leiber. Peoples minds are read out regularly and if
			  your body gets destroyed you are put in a body of
			  someone else, I don't remember what happens to that
			  other person's mind. The main character get put in
			  the body of a woman. There is also the mention of
			  possibly some sequels, but no one has read them
			  that responded)

       Tanith Lee several books at least
         Don't Bite the Sun (Tanith Lee. It has been awhile, I seem to remember
			   the lead female character get changed into a male
			   for awhile so that she can use his sperm to im-
			   pregnate herself. Doesn't work, and I don't believe
			   it was the basis of the story, just a subplot)

         A Day in the Skin (or, The Century We Were Out of Them)

         Saphire Wine (?)

	 Book of the Damned

      Season of the Witch (G. Hank Stine)

      Tiresias (Greek myth. Man steps on mating snakes, changed into woman
		 for seven years, Steps on mating snakes again, changed back
		 to man)

      ?  (Clive Barker. Short story that has two men going into a abandon
	   bath house. They each in separate experience see a nude girl and
	   chase her. They end up making love a creature. This causes them
	   to slowly to start changing into females.)

      Cluster Series (Peirs Anthony. People transferred into living shells
		       not all human, but several dealt with female going
		       into male creature, and male going into female
		       creature)

      John Varley books in general
        Options
        Picnic on Far(near)side
        The Phantom of Kansas
        Ophiuchi Hotline
        The Persistance of Vision

      Triton (Samuel R. Delany)

      When Gravity Fails (George Alec Effinger)

      The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin)

      Octavia Butler Books deal with transformations
        Wild Seed

      Non transformation stories but have gender reversal
       No Woman Born (C.L. Moore)
       The Mystery of the Young Gentleman (Joanna Russ)
       What Did You Do During the Revoltion, Grandma?Joanna Russ)

      Mindswap (Robert Sheckley)

      Camelot 3000 (mini-series turned grapic novel)

      Guardians of the Galaxy (comic from Marvel)

      The Man Who Folded Himself (David Gerrold)

TV Shows:
	Gilligan Islands (episode where they go to mad doctors Island)

	Star Trek (2 episodes Turnabout Intruder, and one were spocks mind
		     is put in with nurse Chapels)

        Munster (Grandpa make formula to turn into beautiful women)

        Fantasy Island 

        Highway to Heaven (side kick and actress switch)

        Quantum Leap ( 4 episodes, 8 1/2 months, What Price Gloria, Another
		       mother, Miss Deep South)

        Flinstones (2 Episodes Fred gets bowling ball stuck on finger and
		      and doctor Frankenstone tries to remove it. Fred is
		      jealous of Wilma' old high school flame, so Cazoo?
		      changes Barney into women)

        Dobie Gillis (Maynard is changed into several people the last being
		      a beaufil girl)

        Turnabout (husband and wife getting switched by idol. There is also
		   a movie both based on a book by same title)

        Japanese have this theme in allot of there shows. Ranma 1/2 was 
          mentioned, I also seem to remember a tv special on American tv
          that was featuring forgien tv shows, one which had to do with a
          boy and girl running into each other on some steps and there bodies
          getting switch. They were in there early teens.
        
Again Thank you all who responded. If you have any input on missing titles or
descriptions please responde to:

bewoldt@sedona.intel.com

Prodigy: HJWK68A
 
Bob Ewoldt
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