Victorian lesbians and Always a Girl fic.

I totally just scored a copy of Tipping the Velvet off my church's bookloan shelf. I've been meaning to get to this one since I read Fingersmith, which was basically the perfect gothic romance, so I am delighted. And proud of my church's library. (Yesterday phnelt won the Unitariannets by citing specific doctrinal support for printing bandfic on my church's printer. I am putting money in the tin for paper and ink, don't worry.)

OKAY, the actual point of this entry: I am fascinated with this subgenre of genderswap that is cropping up where a character who is canonically male is a girl, has always been a girl, was in fact born a cisgendered woman-type person, and the story explores how her life has been different because of her gender. See for examples:

Story of a Girl, Stargate Atlantis, John/Rodney, by seperis (NC-17)

Secret Cave, The Used/MCR (bandom), Gerard/Bert, by sinsense (NC-17)

Not a Pretty Girl, MCR, Bob gen, by idyll.

(That last one is not just a citation but a big flaily rec. I mean, they're all good, but that last one won my heart so totally I wished I was a Time Lord just so I had more than one to give. Some day I will get sick of Time Lord jokes, but not today.)

ANYWAY, I am completely fascinated with this always-a-girl genre, which seems to have arisen out of wakes-up-a-girl genderswap. I would love to know any and all thoughts on it (does it make you uncomfortable? Do you Not Read Het? Does it make you feel vindicated, or full of joy?), and I would also love links to any and all stories or meta, in any fandom, that fall into this category. I think, among other things, that I might be about to meta myself, and I'd love some discussion first.