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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''.
==Raised as Girls==
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