Riley's fear of being true to herself on her school profile is a nod to Girl Meets Rileytown, where she is cyberbullied.
When Riley and Maya are standing in the hall where Riley announces that she is, in fact, Jexica, The sign behind them proclaims that the upcoming production for the Abigail Adams High Drama Club is Thornton Wilder's Our Town." In Girl Meets Gravity, Season 2, Episode 1, her father Cory tells his class that his favorite play is "Our Town."
Lucas mentions Butch Cassidy being his favorite movie. Cloris Leachman is in that movie as Agnes. She also played Mrs. Svorski in Girl Meets World.
There's a reference to the movie "Mean Girls" by doing interviews with individual students as they do in the movie.
When Riley becomes Jexica in her room, she climbs out the window. Maya follows her, and she has no shoes on.