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Often this overlaps with [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] and [[Wholesome Crossdresser]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Romeo X Juliet]]'': Juliet gets to be a girl disguised as a boy disguised as a girl.
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* Played with in [[Family Compo]]: for Masahiko's entry ceremony, he asks his [[Crossdresser|crossdressing]] [[Nephewism|aunt and uncle/adoptive parents]] to dress according to their biological sex. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/family_compo/v01/c004/10.html The result] [[Hilarity Ensues|isn't what he expected]]. They look like genuine crossdressers, but are in fact Recursive Crossdressers.
* In ''[[Nononono]]'', Nono is a girl who pretends to be a boy to continue ski jumping. After she's caught in her underwear by the [[Alpha Bitch]] Kourogi but mistaken for a crossdresser, she's forced to be Lourogi's slave, including wearing a maid's outfit.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Minoru]] in ''[[AKB49: Ren'ai
== [[Film]] ==
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* In the final scene of ''[[The Birdcage]]'', the senator's wife and daughter must pretend to be drag queens to escape the drag club without being noticed.
* At the end of ''[[Mulan]]'', Mulan does this in order to fight [[Big Bad|Shan Yu]] and save China.
* ''[[Transamerica]]'', like many works where a non-TG actress plays a TG character, provides an example from the perspective of [[Real Life]]. Actress Felicity Huffman plays Bree,
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Similarly, there's a Black Lace "novel" about a young woman who wants to be an artist, so she disguises herself as a boy to enter the all-male art academy and is later picked to play a girl in a parade. Many, many interesting situations later she's no longer sure ''who'' she is.
* [[Discworld]]:
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* In ''[[Tipping the Velvet]],'' Nancy is deemed not to make a good male impersonator because she looks too much like an actual boy (this makes perfect sense in a setting where the point of male-impersonation acts is to be daring and transgressive rather than completely realistic). She becomes much more successful when her male costume is modified to look a little more feminine.
* [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s Lythande is a woman pretending to be a man, since women are not allowed to be Magi. At one point, she has to pose as a female dancer, prompting comments of how realistic the costume is.
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* Referenced when discussing Shakespeare in ''[[Horrible Histories]]'', describing Elizabethan casting as "women pretending to be boys pretending to be women pretending to be boys."
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[History Bites]]'', one episode has a fan of Shakespeare who dresses up as her favourite character. This means she's dressed as a boy, who was actually a woman, who is played by a man, while wearing her own clothes.
* A slight twist occurs in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "The Outcast'': an actress plays an androgynous alien who finds itself becoming female due to its attraction for Commander Riker, and has to cover this up because of societal taboo.
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* ''[[Glee]]'' has a rather odd example. Although Kurt does not have the same clothes, in the "Duets" episode he does "Le Jazz Hot" from ''[[Victor Victoria]]''. This makes him a man paying homage to a woman dressed as a man dressed as a woman.
▲== [[Theater]] ==
* Practically every [[Shakespeare]] comedy, as originally performed, has boy actors playing women who disguise themselves as boys.
** ''As You Like It'' goes even further: the female lead (Rosalind) disguises herself as a boy (Ganymede) who is then asked by Rosalind's lover Orlando to pretend to be Rosalind so he can practice courting her. Certain modern productions can be even worse. The epilogue to ''As You Like It'' is nominally spoken by Rosalind, but actually by the boy playing her (it contains the line "If I were a woman..."). Thus, if Rosalind is played by an actress and the epilogue included, we have: a modern actress playing a Shakespearean boy actor playing a woman disguised as a boy who pretends to be a woman (for ''five'' levels of recursivity).
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* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy6jgch8IVI The Friend Who Dressed]'' takes this to a ridiculous level, culminating in the main character being {{spoiler|a boy disguised as a girl disguised as a boy disguised as a ''[[Paper-Thin Disguise|dog]]''}}.
* This trope was very common in Spanish classic theatre (contemporary of Sir William), notably in Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca plays. Calderón's ''La Dama del Aire'' is possibly the best example.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Chris in ''[[Princess Waltz]]'' is a girl who dresses like the boy she intends to become. At one point she is forced to dress like a female cheerleader by the rest of her class. The main character expects Chris to be angered by this (as she normally blows her top when treated like a girl), but Chris explains she doesn't care that much because she's being treated like a cross-dressing boy.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Averted in ''[[No Need for Bushido]]'', when the main characters must substitute for kabuki actors. Ina is specifically told not to play the female lead, because she wouldn't be convincing as a man playing a female role.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* Sarah Edmonds was a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] who enlisted with the Union army during the American Civil War. She spent most of the war working for the intelligence division behind enemy lines, in various—mostly female—disguises.
* A recently-opened cafe in Tokyo features female staff dressed as young men in maid costumes. It caters to the [[Yaoi Fangirl|fujoshi crowd]].
* If the [[Shakespeare]] example above
* Then there's the 'biologically-challenged' drag queens or [[wikipedia:Faux queen|faux queens]], women who purposefully adopt the mannerisms of drag queens - in music, [[Scissor Sisters|Ana Matronic]] presents herself this way, as did [[Lady Gaga]] in her first few months in the spotlight.
* Chevalier d'Eon was a French spy who lived as a man but frequently posed as a woman in the line of duty, and claimed to have been born a woman; eventually, it was demanded that d'Eon wear proper women's clothing, which d'Eon did until death, where the physicians examining him (or her) discovered he (or she) was anatomically male... making him/her a man claiming to be a woman but living as a man until ordered to live as a woman.
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