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{{trope}}
A couple has a baby that's the opposite gender from the one they [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?|wanted]] or [[Heir Club for Men|needed]]. For whatever reason, they decide that rather than keep trying, they're going to raise the existing child as if the child were the desired gender.
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.
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Beware of inherent spoilers in the examples.
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'''Girls (/Female-Bodied People) Raised as Boys'''
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* {{spoiler|Angela}} in ''[[Sleepaway Camp]]''
* Lord Fanny in ''[[The Invisibles]]'' is born as a boy into a family of powerful female witches, and s/he is raised as a girl so that s/he can continue the family tradition (which is forbidden to men). Her/his grandmother even chastises her/his father for producing a male child instead of the preferred female one. Fanny quite easily accepts the gender she is given and grows up to be a transgendered woman with magical powers.
* An episode of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' featured a pair of fraternal twins. However, you find out later that {{spoiler|they were born identical, and the sister was actually a boy who was given a sex change after a botched circumcision}}. This was [[Ripped
* 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 ''[[
* Bridget from ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' was raised as a girl because of a superstition in his village about having same gender twins. His story mode actually has him setting off to become a bounty hunter to actually prove that he wouldn't be a curse on those he loved.
* In the h-manga ''Boy Soprano'', Akira is raised as a girl by his adoptive mother. Well, sort of — she makes him wear nothing but girls' clothing but openly acknowledges the fact that he's a boy in private. She's just very controlling; all this was a lead-up to him being enrolled in the all girls' school of which she's the principal, so she could keep a constant eye on him.
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