From Hawai'i we have the story of Kapaemahu, which is the story of four mahu, or transgender travelers from Kahiki, who came to O'ahu as guests and were healers. Under the guidance of their leader, Kapaemahu, the four who were said to have appeared to have been male in stature, but female in appearance and mannerism, being They/She in pronouns.
The four of them had traveled over a year, healing those who were injured or sick, and teaching others in the art of healing. They taught for each of their own magic, Kupuni who had a great strength of mana could heal through it enveloping those, Kionohi who could accurately divine the source of the sickness or injury, and Kahaloa who could through their breath restore life and heal. The four of them had spent a year traveling, teaching, and healing, returning to the location that they had arrived in the end.
Knowing that their magic would be important, the four of them worked with the people over the course of a month, moving four large stones to the site, and infusing the stones with their magic, so that any could pray to the stones to draw power to be able to heal themselves. The stones still exist to this day.
Norwegian folklore has a couple of such tales. One of them, which I published in translation in Erotic Folktales from Norway (2017), is called "The Girl Who Served as Soldier and Married the King's Daughter."
This folktale tells of a girl who cross-dresses so that she may fight for the king.
She does bravely and is promoted, the king's daughter falls in love with her, and they are married. But the captain cannot satisfy the king's daughter in bed, so the king gives his captain other duties – travel away to collect a difficult tax.
On her way back, the captain needs to take shelter on a farm, but the farm folk feign not to be at home, so the captain soils their door handle (as one does).
The farmer and his wife take their revenge by conjuring a change of sex on the captain.
The captain goes home and satisfies his wife – and then some.
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