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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 ===
* {{spoiler|Akito}} in ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', due to
* Tsukasa Shuro in ''[[Ceres, Celestial Legend]]'', according to the tie-in novel focusing on her backstory, didn't even realize she was a girl until she was about 8 years old. She was raised as a boy to {{spoiler|protect her from the curse of the Hagoromo, since she's one of the Celestial Maidens.}}
▲* {{spoiler|Akito}} in ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', due to {{spoiler|her [[Complete Monster]] mother's irrational jealousy towards her that made he ''demand'' for Akito to be raised as a boy. Akito herself has always known she's a girl, but almost everyone except the oldest members of the Souma clan (and later Tohru) ignore it, until she willingly reveals it after her [[Heel Face Turn]].}}
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* In the [[Land of Oz|Oz series]], Princess Ozma was magically disguised as a boy for most of her childhood. Even she didn't know the truth. She seemed to adjust to being a girl very easily, however.▼
* One of the stories from ''[[Arabian Nights]]'' had a groom reveal to the bride on their wedding night that he was actually a woman raised as a man due to her father [[You Have Failed Me...|putting pressure on her mother]] [[Heir Club for Men|for a son]].▼
* Tamir (a.k.a. Prince Tobin) from Lynn Flewelling's ''Tamir Triad'' was magically transformed into a boy at birth (long story short, the people currently in power required a male heir, but certain groups wanted a return to the country's old matriarchal ways). She didn't know she was a girl until puberty hit and weakened the spell, and had some awkwardness adjusting to being female later.▼
* ''[[Gintama]]'''s Kyuubei was raised as a boy so that she could succeed her family's clan.
* [[Nasuverse|Type Moon]] seems to like this — Saber from ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' is a standard "needed a male heir" example, and Shiki from ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:]]'' may also count, though it's honestly a lot more complicated than that.
* Princess Sapphire from ''The [[Princess Knight]]'' - again raised as a boy due to a law that only male heirs could rule, and further complicated by the fact that she had the "hearts" of both a boy and girl due to a mistake in heaven.
* 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.▼
* Features in Mark Twain's ''A Medieval Romance''.▼
* Kellen in ''The Dream-Maker's Magic'' was raised as a boy by her mother, who was convinced she had actually given birth to a boy and couldn't handle having a daughter instead. Kellen started occasionally dressing as a woman around the time she hit puberty. When she left to go to Wodenderry, she switched back to pretending to be a man for her own safety, but was eventually forced to admit the truth to her friends. {{spoiler|It turned out her mother really had given birth to a boy, and the babies were [[Switched At Birth]].}}▼
* Penny in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''▼
* Robin "Charles" Scherbatsky in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''▼
* Celeste in the ''Gemini'' books by [[V. C. Andrews]].▼
* "Prince" Igam in ''[[Hikari Sentai Maskman]]''▼
* {{spoiler|The narrator, Frank,}} in ''[[The Wasp Factory]]'' as it turns out {{spoiler|her father wanted to experiment and see if it would work}}.▼
* {{spoiler|Genki Saotome}} in ''[[Getter Robo]] Armaggedon''. When we meet her as an adult, {{spoiler|she actually identifies as a female, and has become the [[Action Girl]] Kei Kuruma.}} Brilliant plot twist, or an [[Ass Pull]] for the ages? [[Internet Backdraft|Who knows.]]
* {{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 ===
▲* In the [[Land of Oz|''Oz'' series]], Princess Ozma was magically disguised as a boy for most of her childhood. Even she didn't know the truth. She seemed to adjust to being a girl very easily, however.
▲* Tamir (a.k.a. Prince Tobin) from [[Lynn Flewelling]]'s ''
▲* Features in [[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[A Medieval Romance]]''.
▲* Kellen in ''[[The Dream-Maker's Magic]]'' was raised as a boy by her mother, who was convinced she had actually given birth to a boy and couldn't handle having a daughter instead. Kellen started occasionally dressing as a woman around the time she hit puberty. When she left to go to Wodenderry, she switched back to pretending to be a man for her own safety, but was eventually forced to admit the truth to her friends.
▲* Celeste in the ''Gemini'' books by [[V. C. Andrews]].
▲* {{spoiler|The narrator, Frank,}} in ''[[The Wasp Factory]]'' as it turns out
=== Live-Action TV ===
▲* Penny in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''
▲* Robin "Charles" Scherbatsky in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''
▲* "Prince" Igam in ''[[Hikari Sentai Maskman]]''
=== Oral Tradition ===
▲* One of the stories from ''[[Arabian Nights]]'' had a groom reveal to the bride on their wedding night that he was actually a woman raised as a man due to her father [[You Have Failed Me...|putting pressure on her mother]] [[Heir Club for Men|for a son]].
=== Poetry ===
▲* 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 ===
* 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''.
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===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
===Web Comics===
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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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