He definitely is an exception to the rule. I've seen a lot of things on the internet that I cannot now unsee. I have seen Wonder Woman using her Willy to cornhole Superman, get cryin' out loud.
Not my fetish, but shit I see looking for other shit. No shit.
I have the first four seasons of the series and just ordered season 5 last night.
He was knocked into a cursed look by his father, who had just gotten out of one Ranma had knocked him into. The curse is that if you fall in one of the cursed pools, you assume the shape of the last thing that drowned in it. Ranma fell into the pool of the drowned girl, his dad into the pool of the drowned panda.
This is def the exception to the rule, especially as it is canon in both the manga and anime. All other gender bender is non-canon, with the possible exception of Superboy who had an illusion that he was a girl in a story back in the 50s.