In Swordsman II, Brigette was sort of transgender. She was male being converted to female by some sort of weird Taoist immortality practice.

In the one I'm thinking about, she was cast as a male all the way through, just like Linda Hunt in Year of Living Dangerously. There were three heroes and it started at this inn, where they were serving human buns, akin to the old Dragon Inn story (actually out of Outlaws of the Marsh for those of you who are literate). But it wasn't Dragon Inn; that was my mistake. Maybe it'll come to me. It wasn't that great of a movie and I saw it a very long time ago.