History Main / AttractiveBentGender

* Vicious Whispers is a FTM example from SerenityRose. It helps when your a shapeshifter.

* Erica Moen, noted queer cartoonist, has said [[http://www.darcomic.org/2009/02/17/transmen/ "Transmen are ridiculously hot"]].

** She looked great when she had long hair too. On the other side of the spectrum, Tom (a [[{{Transsexual}} female-to-male) is MrFanservice at its finest. And he's not even on hormones.

* In ''[[OneHundredGirls 100 Girls]]'', a guy dresses up as a girl to gain access to the girls' dorm at a college and eventually must fend off a rape attempt from a guy.

* TildaSwinton has done [[AmbiguousGender this twice]]:
** As the title character in ''Literature/{{Orlando}}''. Orlando starts off as a rather attractive man in Renaissance England when, enamoured by his beauty, Queen Elizabeth I orders him never to age (so he doesn't). Roughly 150 years later, after seeing the horrors of war that he is expected to endure as a man, Orlando goes into a days-long sleep, only to wake and find himself transformed into a woman.
** She played the archangel Gabriel in ''Film/{{Constantine}}'' as a divine, genderless being.

* James is no stranger to cross-dressing in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' (so much so that in some fanfic universes it's considered to be part of Team Rocket's basic training), but in an episode that was banned for years in the United States, he enters a women's bikini contest wearing a particularly convincing full-body, flesh-tone bodysuit with inflatable breasts.[[hottip:*:The dubbed version, when it finally aired, had the breast scenes cut.]]

* As Sarah called out Jareth[[hottip:*:(It wasn't even his fault. Poor guy had a [[PowerIncontinence cold.)]] about it in ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'':

* [[Anime/Pokemon Ash's]] [[FanFic/NewLookSeries disguise]] is apparently good enough to make him a "beautiful fair maiden" in [[CasanovaWannabe Br]][[ChivalrousPervert ock's]] eyes.

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* Examples from ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'':
** The title character has this at times, most notably in "A Girl Worth Fighting For".
-->'''Yao:''' ''Bet the local girls thought you were quite the charmer.''
** When Mulan's friends sneak into the palace in disguise. "It's only Concubines." "Ugly concubines," says the second guard. But the first guard seems to have a more favorable opinion.

* In ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' when Iago's impersonating both Jasmine and a female flamingo, another actual male flamingo gets the goo-goo eyes for him, tongue hanging out and everything.

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This trope frequently leads up to the SecondLawOfGenderBending. SweetOnPollyOliver is a subtrope where a woman crossdressing is found attractive by guys. Frequently accompanies SomethingsDifferentAboutYouNow. See also RuleSixtyThree, which basically exists because of this trope. When they actually are ''both'' genders, it becomes EverybodyWantsTheHermaphrodite.

* Hazumu from ''KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'' gets a lot more more romantic attention after being transformed from a boy to a girl - mostly from other girls too. This causes problems with her male best friend who comically is conflicted about his undeniable attraction to her despite the fact [[SomethingsDifferentAboutYouNow he knew her as a boy until the gender switch]].

** There is a musical adaptation of ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' called ''AllShookUp''. The music is all ElvisPresley all the time. And lots of attractive gender bending.

* When Tim Drake from ''{{Batman}}'' [[http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g108/ladymirth/Batman626Pyrate-DCPpg10.jpg dressed up]] [[http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g108/ladymirth/Batman626Pyrate-DCPpg12.jpg like a girl]], "she" was almost immediately asked out on a date by someone that had no idea she was Robin, the ''Boy'' Wonder.

* ''Disney/{{Mulan}}
** The titular character has this at times, most notably in "A Girl Worth Fighting For".

** Averted/inverted later, when Mulan's friends sneak into the palace in disguise. "It's only Concubines." "Ugly concubines."
*** Though one of the two guards seems to have a more favorable opinion.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Dean Venture finds himself in [[{{Ruritania}} ?derland]] while wearing a Princess Leia slave girl costume (it was for a costume contest, the group theme being StarWars). The dictator of the nation, Dr. Venture's "official" arch-nemesis, hauls off the rest of the Ventures but falls instantly for Dean. (Cue all the jokes about how Dean is a pretty wimpy guy.)

* The titular character of ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' has this at times, most notably in "A Girl Worth Fighting For".

* Poor, poor Shika in ''VisualNovel/KiraKira''. He was forced into drag once in tenth grade and was ''so'' cute that a guy fell in love with him. His childhood friend brings this up to their fellow (female) bandmates, who decide to get out his wig and force him to dress up as a girl. Much hilarity is had. Shika swears never to crossdress again--but then he has to dress up as a girl to get into a friend's house because of her [[OverprotectiveDad overprotective grandfather]]. And [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Kirari]] continues to force him into drag for concerts and her general amusement. One thing leads to another, and Shika spends about a third of the game forced into women's clothing and a wig. Even in the sequel, for the return of the original d2b, his fellow ex-band members conspire against him to crossdress once more for their last performance.

* While it is unclear how attractive she was as a man (as she was very young then), [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenna_Talackova Jenna Talackova]] was attractive enough as a woman to get into Top 12 in Miss Universe Canada 2012... after a long legal battle when she was originally disqualified from the contest due to being born a man.

* This is inevitable in any story in the Transsexuals and Crossdressers section of {{Literotica}}, for [[ExplicitContent obvious reasons]].

* Poor, poor Shika in ''VisualNovel/KiraKira''. He was forced into drag once in tenth grade and was ''so'' cute that a guy fell in love with him. His childhood friend brings this up to their fellow (female) bandmates, who decide to get out his wig and force him to dress up as a girl. Much hilarity is had. Shika swears never to crossdress again--but then he has to dress up as a girl to get into a friend's house because of her [[OverprotectiveDad overprotective grandfather]]. And [[CloudCuckoolander Kirari]] continues to force him into drag for concerts and her general amusement. One thing leads to another, and Shika spends about a third of the game forced into women's clothing and a wig. Even in the sequel, for the return of the original d2b, his fellow ex-band members conspire against him to crossdress once more for their last performance.

* A G-rated version occurs in ''{{Rugrats}}'' when Tommy is crossdressed as a girl by Stu and Lou to enter him in a beauty pageant. The audiance and the judges all think he's adorabe, including Angelica, who calls him "The cutest little girl (other than herself) in the pageant". He even ends up winning the pageant until they're ratted out by Didi.