Individual Sex Change

Works in which the protagonist or major character has changed their sex ... (to male, female, or something else altogether ... ) ... Includes FTM, MTF, MTFTM, FTMTF, and any other permutations that might come up; and sex-switching (when people switch bodies with one another, of different genders)

see also
Mutations & Evolution for species-wide change in sex ...

• Bujold, Lois McMaster. A Civil Campaign (1999) (minor character, FTM)
• Carlson, William. "Dinner at Helen's" (1972) in Scortia anthology, Strange Bedfellows: Sex and Science Fiction (1972)
• Carter, Angela. The Passion of New Eve (1977) (separatists capture a man and surgically change him into a woman)
• Carter, Raphael. "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" (1999)
• Storm Constantine's Wraethu books - Well, it's about a species change, but the character undergoes the process in the first of the books.
• Delany, Samuel. Triton
• Diesbach, Ghislain De. "The Chavalier d'Armel's Wedding" in The Toys of Princes, translated by Richard Howard, New York, Pantheon, 1962. Originally published as Iphigenie en Thruinge: Nouvelles Paris: R. Julliard, 1960). [woman changes into a man]
• Eisenstein, Phyllis. Sorceror's Son (1979) [sex-changing demon]
• Gardner, James Alan. Commitment Hour
• Grae, Camarin. Stranded (1991, Naiad) (3 women from a hermaphroditic species are sent as "disembodied minds" to Earth to stop a villain. They end up identifying as lesbians and fighting a fundamentalist movement led by the villain. The chief protagonist, as a DM, is often in the bodies of men.)
• Heinlein, Robert. I Will Fear No Evil (1970). Sigh. A dirty old man is switched into the body of his nubile young secretary, and straightaway begins to have "female" longings (to have a child, etc.). Oh well. Robert tried, he really did.
• Tanya Huff's No Quarter - female carries her male twin's personality in her body; a lot of switching of personalities from body to body
• Lee, Tanith. Death's Master (1979) (one character can change sexes)
  --. Don't Bite the Sun (1976) (all people can change sexes easily)
  --. Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977) (all people can change sexes easily) (prequel to Don't Bite the Sun)
• Lumley, Brian. "Aunt Hester" in The Horror at Oakdeene, and Others Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1977. [Aunt Hester can change places with her twin brother.]
• MacBeth, George. The Transformation (1975) (protagonist changes sex)
• Merwin, Sam. Chauvinisto (1976) [a man unwillingly changed into a woman]
• Mixon, Laura J. Proxies.
  --. Glass Houses
• Moorcock, Michael. The End of Time stories: people can change sex at will.
• Nik [pseudonym]. "The Prince's Predicament: A Fairy Story," in Ladder [San Francisco, California], v. 4, no. 3 (Dec. 1959). [various princes & princesses have sexes changed]
• O'Driscoll, Mike. "The Future of Birds" [surgical alterations]
• Scott, Melissa Shadow Man - Some characters in this 5-sexed world have themselves surgically altered to be traditionally male or female.
• Sheckley, Robert. Mindswap (1966)
• Smith, Thorne. Turnabout (1931) (characters switch)
• Springer, Nancy. Larque on the Wing [a woman is able to change herself into other genders]
• Stein, Hank. Season of the Witch (1968) [trashy soft porn]
• Sturgeon, Thodeore. Venus Plus X
• Thomas, Thomas T. Crygender
• Varley, John. "Options" [and other stories in Eight Worlds series] (1980)
• Watkins, Jeff. "A Second Eden," In Touch for Men [Los Angeles], no. 39 (Jan-Feb 1979)
• Woolf, Virginia. Orlando (1928)
• Zelazny, Roger. Lord of Light (1967) (a lesbian character who keeps taking the bodies of men to seduce women)

Films & Videos
• "All of Me" (Lily Tomlin & Steve Martin)
• "Frankenstein Created Woman" (1967)
• "Goodbye Charlie" (1964) (Debbie Reynolds)
• "Myra Breckenridge" (1970) (based on Gore Vidal's novel)
• "Orlando" (Tilda Swinton)
• "Sexual Chemistry" (1999) (Mike Sedan, Dir.) (soft-core p*rn; the male protagonist takes a drug that makes him switch genders every time s/he is aroused. and yet, the movie manages to remain completely straight despite this.)
• "Switch" Blake Edwards, Director. Ellen Barkin. A sexist man dies and comes back in the body of Ellen Barkin. He redeems himself by dying in childbirth. Ugh. I hated it. However, there was a teeny-weeny bit of lesbian action between Ellen Barkin & JoBeth Williams, and apparently more in a scene that was cut out.
• "Turnabout" (1940 - based on the Thorne Smith novel) Hal Roach, Director.

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