User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Fanfiction Pains: annoying things I've noticed related to Merlin fanfics/@comment-5674726-20130721162518

Now, I know there are other stories in which Merlin is made a female character (which strikes me as weird, because I would have thought With All My Heart proved that even though Colin's a cutie, he does NOT make a good-looking woman, but hey to each their own!)

Fem!Merlin wouldn't be to my tastes, mostly because it's a recipe for a Mary-Sue, but I'd say that the idea could have potential as long as the author was able to resist the temptation to have Merlynne (or whatever they were going to call her) portrayed as a beauty and paired off with Arthur, and as long as they recognised the necessary plot differences that would follow if Merlin was female. For example, there is no way that Uther would appoint a woman as his son's personal attendant, and bodyguard would be completely out of the question.