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==Girls (/Female-Bodied People) Raised as Boys==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* {{spoiler|Akito}} in ''[[Fruits Basket]]'', due to
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* Lady Oscar in ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'' is an example of the "needed a male heir" subgroup. By the time she meets Andre at age 7, she already knows she is a girl. By the time Oscar joins the military at age 14, most people can tell she is female.
* 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.
=== 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.
==Boys (/Male-Bodied People) Raised as Girls==
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