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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.
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 his/her desire to be him/herself (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 he/she is.
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.


Beware of inherent spoilers in the examples.
Beware of inherent spoilers in the examples.


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==Girls (/Female-Bodied People) Raised as Boys==
==Raised as Boys==


=== Anime and Manga ===
=== Anime and Manga ===
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* 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.
* 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==
==Raised as Girls==


===Anime and Manga===
===Anime and Manga===
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=== Anime and Manga ===
=== Anime and Manga ===
* ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' has Ryuunosuke, a girl raised as a boy, and Nagisa, a boy raised as a girl.
* ''[[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]].
* Hansel and Gretel in ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' were raised to role-play whatever sick scenarios their owner created for them, and as a result learned to "switch" gender at will, becoming dual [[Creepy Crossdresser]]s.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[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 their original gender was. Note that a large reason that no one can "tell" is the fact that they were injured at a young age in a way implied to have made them infertile, andwhich would naturally mess with their development.
* ''[[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 [[transgender]]) and North Italy being raised as a girl by Austria and the aforementioned Hungary.
* ''[[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 [[transgender]]) and North Italy being raised as a girl by Austria and the aforementioned Hungary.


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