Is There a Magical Element to This Transformation?

When achilles sees didomaea, he gives his mother consent to let her change him. The language is really ambiguous, because it says how she takes his strong shoulders and bows them. Is she physically bowing them so they look more feminine? Or is she just touching them and showing him how to hold himself? We don't know. So it is a little bit ambiguous, but you could interpret it that way. And there's even this beautiful moment in the achilead when achilles has been transformed and gone off to join the other dancing women of scyros.