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Once the kid is a little older, this usually leads to conflict between the child and the parents and/or inner conflict for the child, who has to weigh the desire to be themself against their desire to please their parents (or keep their inheritance or what have you). In a few cases, though, the child turns out to identify just fine with the gender they were raised to be. When the child's gender identity does match their physical sex, they may still retain some [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] tendencies.
Can result in a lot of [[Angst]] if the child suppresses
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==Raised as Boys==
=== Anime and Manga ===
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* {{spoiler|Chiyomaru/Kiyone}} in ''[[Genzo]]''. Princess Kiku is a variation: while her gender wasn't concealed at all, her father raised her like a boy and a warrior {{spoiler|in order to defeat [[Evil Weapon|Yasuke and the Yamiganemaru]]}}.
* {{spoiler|Shintarou Inoue}} in ''[[Sumomomo Momomo]]'', and it's not entirely clear if this happened because {{spoiler|the head of the clans that the Inoue clan were aligned with had to be male to fit into an [[Arranged Marriage]]}}, if it's because {{spoiler|Shintarou's dad is an [[Unknown Rival]] to the main character's dad, and Shintarou's dad wants revenge by proxy}}, or if it's because the character's dad is just a bit crazy.
* Ukyou Kuonji of ''[[Ranma ½]]'' was forced to live as a boy after Ranma's father took off with him for parts unknown after engaging Ranma to her.
=== Literature ===
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* In ''[[The Metamorphoses]],'' Iphis's mother raises her daughter as a boy on divine orders to avoid exposing her at birth. Iphis falls in love with another girl named Ianthe, so the goddess Isis turned Iphis into a man and the two got married.
=== Real Life ===
==Boys (/Male-Bodied People) Raised as Girls==▼
* The sworn virgins of the Balkans, specifically in Albania, Montenegro, southern Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia. They were women who were raised as male when a family was left with no male heirs, going as far to adopt a stereotypically male appearance as well as a second male name. The arrival of communism and the emancipation of women in the region eradicated the practice wholesale, with only a few elderly virgins, still being sworn never to marry, remaining in the mountains of northern Albania. During the 2010s there has been a debate whether sworn virgins are a form of a third gender, but most locals, conservative and progressive alike, argue against them being included in the LGBT spectrum, stating that sworn virginhood was always ''imposed'' rather than ''voluntarily adopted''.
===Anime and Manga===
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===Live-Action TV===
* An episode of ''[[Law
* On ''[[CSI]]'', The [[Freudian Excuse]] of a serial killer is revealed to be a gender identity issue: His father raised him as a boy, his mother as a girl.
* On ''[[30 Rock]]'', it's mentioned as a [[Noodle Incident]] that Josh was raised as a girl for 10 years.
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===Video Games===
* Bridget from ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' was raised as a girl because of a superstition in
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=== Anime and Manga ===
* ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' has Ryuunosuke, a girl raised as a boy, and Nagisa, a boy raised as a girl.
* Hansel and Gretel in ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' were raised to role-play whatever sick scenarios their owner created for them, and as
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' has
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' has [[Nations as People|Hungary]] growing up living as a boy (although it's also mentioned that she thought she really was one and thought that "we all get one when we get older anyway"; fandom opinions on Hungary's gender range from [[
===Literature===
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