Quote Originally Posted by Drascin View Post
Yeah. There are masks that allow you to change your sex and appearance at will in D&D too, normally used for disguise. Those are magic items with money costs and such. The Girdle is cursed because it springs on you even if you don't want it and can't be removed short of a Break Enchantment spell.
Ah, I didn't know those were a thing. ^^;

Well, I will try and salvage my position by saying that although benign sex-changing magic exists in D&D, the Girdle is probably better-known and more iconic, and that it's probably a D&D player's first introduction to such within the game.

And it does portray sex-change as something snuck upon the player that they want to get rid of as soon as possible, also as something lulzy.