Blackcat101 wrote:Let's see...
Powerful magical vampires (Death Apostles)
Reality Marbles...
Wish granting evil device...
Alternate realities...
Plus is part of a larger universe were shape-changing magic is slightly more common.
And is heavily hinted any magic considered dangerous is heavily suppressed unless is in control of the Clock Tower.
You misunderstood my point... it is not that you cannot have gender changing magic in Fate/Stay Night (or Type Moon in general for that matter)... It is actually far, far more likely and even easier to accept to have it in that than say, 'You're Under Arrest', which does not really lend itself well to magic in it of any kind...
Nor is it that such cannot exist, as we have a couple now in this thread to prove me wrong were that the point.
No...
It is that while we actually have the summoning of heroes of gender that are opposite of public belief (aka Saber), that issue can be explained away in any number of methods, (including history simply being wrong and she having been successful in hiding her identity). We do not actually see any evidence in mainline canon of any such thing being possible.
So... while it is not that you cannot find such stories, it is that they would be far rarer than in a series that *does* specifically have transformational means, be it magical or otherwise.
Shrugs, I am not really against it or for it in a story (I actually have read that one with Shirou that had one chapter of him in ZNT as female), though I fail to see it as a plot point in and of itself being strong enough for me to want to read something on that alone.