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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''.
 
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===Live-Action TV===
* An episode of ''[[Law and& Order: SVUSpecial Victims Unit]]'' featured a pair of fraternal twins. However, you find out later that {{spoiler|they were born identical, and the sister was actually a boy who was given a sex change after a botched circumcision}}. This was [[Ripped from the Headlines]], oddly enough.
* 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 hisher village about having same -gender twins., with Hisher story mode actuallycentered hasaround himbecoming settinga offbounty tohunter becomeand arejecting bountyher hunteridentity to actually prove that heshe wouldn't be a curse on her loves ones. those he loved. As of ''[[Guilty Gear -STRIVE-]]'', however, Bridget has chosenundergone tosignificant [[Character Development]] since her last appearance, and [[Transgender|identifyhas chosen to embrace her identity as femalea girl]].
 
===Web Comics===