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'''==Girls (/Female-Bodied People) Raised as Boys'''==
 
* {{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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* 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.
 
'''==Boys (/Male-Bodied People) Raised as Girls'''==
 
* Daisy in the Christopher Durang play ''Baby with the Bathwater''.
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* In ''Perfect Peace'' by Daniel Black, the mother of a black Southern family raises her youngest son as a girl. She manages to get away with this for 7 years because she makes sure to be the only one who changes her clothes, helps her in the bathroom etc.
 
'''==Mixed Examples'''==
=== 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 the result learned to "switch" gender at will, becoming a dual [[Creepy Crossdresser]].
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' has {{spoiler|Shannon/Yasu/Kanon}}, though which way this goes depends on how the reader interprets which personality is dominant and what his/her original gender was. Note that a large reason that no one can tell due to secondary attributes is the fact that they were injured at a young age in a way that is implied to have made them infertile and would naturally mess with the way that they developed.
* ''[[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 [[Tomboy]] to [[Transsexualism]]) and North Italy being raised as a girl by Austria and the aforementioned Hungary.
 
* This happens to almost every transgender person ever. Usually not due to malice, just because their parents don't know yet.
===Literature===
* The Japanese classic ''[[wikipedia:Torikaebaya Monogatari|Torikaebaya Monogatari]]'' has a brother and sister raised in this way. They go on to careers at court in those roles, but eventually switch to match their birth genders.
** The story has been adapted as a manga under the title of ''The Change!''.
 
===Real Life ===
* This happens to almost every transgender person ever. Usually not due to malice, just because their parents don't know yet.
 
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