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==Boys (/Male-Bodied People) Raised as Girls==
===Anime and Manga===
* Daisy in the Christopher Durang play ''Baby with the Bathwater''.▼
* 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.▼
* The singer in [[The Who]]'s song "I'm a Boy":▼
* An obscure manga called ''Princess Prince'' had Lawrence raised as a girl named Lori, due to a prophecy that if one of the twin sons born to the king was raised as a 'child of the moon' (read: a girl), there would be prosperity in the kingdom. (It doesn't help that of the two, he resembles his dead mother more.) [[Hilarity Ensues]] as Lawrence has a crush on a girl, is constantly hit on by men, and wonders what will happen when he hits puberty.▼
{{quote|I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but my ma won't admit it; I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but if I say I am, I get it.}}▼
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===Comic Books===
* 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.
* In ''[[Finder]]'', Lynne was raised as a girl because her mother was from the Llaverac clan, where everyone, regardless of functional gender, has breasts and dresses and acts female. Lynne grew up to be an odd mixture.▼
===Film===
* {{spoiler|Angela}} in ''[[Sleepaway Camp]]''
===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.▼
===Live-Action TV===
* 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 from the Headlines]], oddly enough.
* 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.
* 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.▼
* 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.
===Manhwa ===
* Marion Penrose from ''Unhinged''.▼
▲* An obscure manga called ''Princess Prince'' had Lawrence raised as a girl named Lori, due to a prophecy that if one of the twin sons born to the king was raised as a 'child of the moon' (read: a girl), there would be prosperity in the kingdom. (It doesn't help that of the two, he resembles his dead mother more.) [[Hilarity Ensues]] as Lawrence has a crush on a girl, is constantly hit on by men, and wonders what will happen when he hits puberty.
* In the manhwa ''[[Angel Diary]]'', Ee-Jung is raised as a girl because he is the Red Phoenix.
▲* In ''Finder'', Lynne was raised as a girl because her mother was from the Llaverac clan, where everyone, regardless of functional gender, has breasts and dresses and acts female. Lynne grew up to be an odd mixture.
===Music===
▲* The singer in [[The Who]]'s song "I'm a Boy":
▲{{quote|I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but my ma won't admit it; I'm a boy, I'm a boy, but if I say I am, I get it.}}
===Theatre===
▲* Daisy in the Christopher Durang play ''Baby with the Bathwater''.
===Video Games===
▲* 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.
===Web Comics===
* Canadian superhero Green Gables from the ''[[Spinnerette]]''
===Web Original===
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]]: "Granted, I didn't grow up as a girl. At least, not for long. *[[Beat]]* I-I have a history."▼
===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.
===UNSORTED===
▲* 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.▼
▲* 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.
▲* 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.
▲* [[The Nostalgia Critic]]: "Granted, I didn't grow up as a girl. At least, not for long. *[[Beat]]* I-I have a history."
▲* Canadian superhero Green Gables from the ''[[Spinnerette]]'' webcomic may possibly be an example. While he has not made mention of his childhood, he stated that the Green Gables persona is a matriarcal legacy in his family, leaving his origin hanging somewhere between this trope and [[Wholesome Crossdresser]].
▲* 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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