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===Film===
* {{spoiler|Angela}} in ''[[Sleepaway Camp]]''
* Marion Penrose from ''[[Unhinged (film)|Unhinged]]''.▼
===Literature===
* Calliope/Cal, the central character of ''[[Middlesex]]'', although being [[Wrong Genetic Sex|genetically male]], is born with [[Intersex|a condition that makes him look externally female]]. As neither the parents nor family doctor realised it until the child hit puberty, Callie was raised as a girl. Eventually, upon discovering his true nature he comes to terms with his male identity. Note that although Cal's parents specifically intended to have a baby girl (their first child was a boy), they obviously didn't intend to force her to fake her gender identity.
* 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.▼
===Live-Action TV===
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* 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.
* In the Brazilian soap-opera ''[[Chocolate Com Pimenta
* The ''[[True Life]]'' episode "I'm Living As Someone I'm Not" had a woman who was biologically a man. She was raised by her mother as a girl after her mother saw that she was transgender around the age of 13. This counts as this trope because she did not really see herself as transgender, just as a woman and in fact had lived as a woman so long that she had even perfected techniques so that it looked like she had breasts, and it was impossible to tell that she was biologically a man (she just looked like a skinny tall woman). The story follows her trying to come out of the closet, so to speak.
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===Real Life===
* In real life, David Reimer had his penis destroyed as a baby during a circumcision. John Money (a psychologist) then encouraged and oversaw David being sexually re-assigned to female and raised as such. John Money reported the case as a success, and used it as evidence that gender identity is environmental. However, it was later revealed that David had never identified as female, and began living as a male at age 15. He suffered from suicidal depression starting at 13, and eventually killed himself at 38.
▲* Marion Penrose from ''Unhinged''.
▲* In the Brazilian soap-opera [[Chocolate Com Pimenta|"Chocolate com Pimenta"]] (Chocolate with Pepper), there was a woman who suffered from a serious illness and promised to St. Bernardette she'd adopt a girl if she's cured. A maid working for the woman had a son and desired for him a better life so she passed the boy as a girl with no family and claimed the "girl's" name to be Bernardette. Not caring about her foster child more than required to keep good on her promise, she spent years unknowingly raising a boy until the truth came out and Bernardette renamed himself "Bernardo". The woman then started to think everything bad that happened to her was divine punishment for not keeping her promise.
▲* 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==
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