Raised as the Opposite Gender: Difference between revisions
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Can result in a lot of [[Angst]] if the child suppresses their desire to be themselves (until it can't be suppressed anymore, like when the child begins to show prominent secondary sexual characteristics, or when the child begins to love someone of their opposite sex), or when the child rebels against the parent's desire and the parent simply can't accept the child for who they are.
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=== 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''.
==Raised as Girls==
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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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