History Main / RaisedAsTheOppositeGender

* ''Manga/BinbogamiGa'': When Rindou Ranmaru shows up, people specifically bring up this trope (the very title of the chapter/episode is "Is This That So-Called Girl-Raised-As-A-Boy Pattern?"). It's actually not ''quite'' the same thing -- Ranmaru has never been told she ''is'' a boy, just forced to live like one.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has Konatsu the Kunoichi, who is revealed to be a [[UnsettlingGenderReveal man]] (and has no problems identifying as one), but dresses and behaves as a woman because his abusive step-family forces him to live as a female.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer David Reimer]] had his penis destroyed as a baby during a botched circumcision. John Money, a psychologist, then encouraged and oversaw David being sexually reassigned 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.

* ''Film/SleepawayCamp'': In the notorious ending of the film, [[spoiler:the serial killer Angela is revealed to be a boy when the survivors find "her" naked and bloodstained with the severed head of a victim. "Angela", who originally went by Peter, was raised as a girl by an obsessive aunt after his father and sister were killed in an accident. She already has a son and "another one simply would not do", so she forced him to take on his dead sister's name and was implied to be emotionally abusive towards him, causing Peter to lash out during the movie's events.]] Fortunately, later movies in the series indicated that the aunt received her comeuppance for this, even if it didn't amount to much considering the events of the film.

* ''Film/SleepawayCamp'': [[spoiler:Angela]] is revealed to be a boy raised as a girl by an obsessive aunt who already has a son and "another one simply would not do".

* ''VisualNovel/YourTurnToDie'': The Convict/[[spoiler:Alice Yabusame]] has a GenderBlenderName and speaks in a way where he seems to be deliberately affecting a "masculine" tone despite being more used to speaking in a "feminine" one, slipping into it while panicked (and having apparently had it more consistently while younger in a flashback), yet still seems to identify as a man (even quite angrily and defensively) when asked about it. As he explains in the side game ''Your Time to Shine'', his mother raised him as a girl until he confronted her about it. Whether this qualifies as him being {{transgender}} or having an AmbiguousGenderIdentity is still vague, and the translator has said that it can be interpreted in different ways.

* ''VideoGame/MatryonasLastNight'': The titular character was raised as a girl by his parents mainly because the mother wanted a daughter. She gave him a girl's name, made him wear girls' clothing, forced him to grow his hair out, and taught him generic feminine hobbies. This led to Matryona being bullied and rejected by his classmates. When his cousin was adopted by his family, his parents were content to finally have a girl. The stress of being replaced by Sasha and being told by his parents to "go back to normal" caused him to snap and to kill his family. [[spoiler:The True Ending subverts this by having Matryona, called Matvey, be raised as a boy in another life.]]

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* There is a rare genetic disorder found in some African villages that causes male children to be born with genitals that look female until puberty, whereupon they start to grow a penis. The discovery that they were male all along often comes as a relief to these children, who in many cases felt that they fit in better with boys.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Penny has many tomboysih traits. Her father wanted a son. Lampshaded by Leonard's mother multiple times:
->'''Beverly Hofstadter:''':Oh, yes, the waitress-slash-actress with the unresolved father issues. Has he finally come to terms with his little slugger growing breasts?
->'''Beverly Hofstadter:''': If you want to have intercourse with that girl, find out what kind of cologne her father wore.

* Afghan girls raised as boys are referred as "[[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/22/girls-boys-afghanistan-daughters-raised-as-sons-puberty-bacha-posh Bacha Posh]]", which means "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin dressed like a boy]]". In Afghanistan, where a mother of a newborn girl was considered as a disgrace for [[HeirClubForMen not being able to bring an heir into the world]], this practice was to give the girls a higher survival rate. When the Bacha Posh hits puberty, they are required to revert back to a ProperLady.

* ''[[Theatre/BabyWithTheBathwater Baby with the Bathwater]]'': Daisy.

* ''Literature/{{Middlesex}}'': Calliope/Cal, although being [[WrongGeneticSex genetically male]], is born with a [[{{Intersex}} condition that makes him look externally female]]. As neither the parents nor family doctor realized 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. Although his parents specifically intended to have a baby girl -- their first child was a boy -- they obviously didn't intend to force him to fake his gender identity.

* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': Ryuunosuke's father [[HeirClubForMen wanted a boy to carry on his family seaside shop]] and decided to raise his only daughter as one. Ryuunosuke knows she's a girl and wants to be more girly, but fails due to her father's meddling.

* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': [[spoiler:Akito Sohma]]. Due to a [[MindRape complicated]] sort of reverse {{Oedip|usComplex}}al power struggle, [[JealousParent her mother]] [[spoiler:[[EvilMatriarch Ren Sohma]]]] is to blame for it. She was always aware of her true gender, but other than that, only some of the old family servants and the oldest Zodiac members--Ayame, Hatori, Shigure and Kureno--know about it [[spoiler:until she goes through a HeelFaceTurn and then willingly reveals herself as the girl she is, via showing up in a very feminine kimono instead of the manly ''yukata'' robes she usually wears]]. It's probably the main reason why she hates her mother so much.

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%%* ''[[Film/ChildrenOfTheLivingDead Children of the Living Dead]]'': As an explanation for a zombie outbreak.

* ''Videogame/DarkSoulsI'': Gwyndolin was born with an affinity for the moon even though he's the child of the Lord of the Sun. As such, he was raised as a female.

* ''[[VideoGame/MatryonasLastNight Matryona's Last Night]]'': The titular character was raised as a girl by his parents mainly because the mother wanted a daughter. She gave him a girl's name, made him wear girls' clothing, forced him to grow his hair out, and taught him generic feminine hobbies. This led to Matryona being bullied and rejected by his classmates. When his cousin was adopted by his family, his parents were content to finally have a girl. The stress of being replaced by Sasha and being told by his parents to "go back to normal" caused him to snap and to kill his family. [[spoiler:The True Ending subverts this by having Matryona, called Matvey, be raised as a boy in another life.]]

* ''[[Manga/StrikeWitches Noble Witches]]'': Isabelle was disguised and raised as the male "Isaac" in order to hide her identity as a witch and have her forcibly conscripted into the military. She resented this and voluntarily joined the RAF anyways, still hiding her true gender. Eventually she was discovered and to avoid punishment she was forced to join the titular Noble Witches.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJoJolion'': Firstborn sons of the Higashikata family are raised in girls' clothing until a certain age due to a superstition to ward off evil spirits. The tradition is actually caused by an unknown hereditary disease that slowly turns them to stone unless someone else is willing to take on the disease for them. Currently this is done with Tsurugi Higashikata, as only family members and close family friends refer to him as a boy.

* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': [[spoiler:Raised as a HumanPet by a sadistic Ghoul, she regularly dressed Juuzou Suzuya up as a girl and molested him. When she began worrying that puberty would ruin his angelic looks, she castrated him so that he would "remain a girl" forever]]. It was only after CCG rescued him that he started living as a boy again, though his looks and unconventional gender expression continue to confuse others when they first meet him.

Can result in a lot of {{Angst}} if the child suppresses their desire to be themselves (until it can't be suppressed anymore, like when the child begins to show prominent secondary sexual characteristics, or when the child begins to love someone of another sex), or when the child rebels against the parent's desire and the parent simply can't accept the child for who they are.

* Yena from ''Manga/SetonAcademyJoinThePack'' grew up thinking that they were male because, due to being a hyena, they have a false penis and they somehow never figured out why their family members called them female. They also somehow completely missed the fact that in this universe, female animals look LittleBitBeastly, while males are {{Beastmen}}.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJojolion'': Firstborn sons of the Higashikata family are raised in girls' clothing until a certain age due to a superstition to ward off evil spirits. The tradition is actually caused by an unknown hereditary disease that slowly turns them to stone unless someone else is willing to take on the disease for them. Currently this is done with Tsurugi Higashikata, as only family members and close family friends refer to him as a boy.

* ''Film/SleepawayCamp'': [[spoiler:Angela]] is revealed to be a boy raised as a girl by an obsessive aunt who already has a son and "another one simply would not do"

* ''[[Manga/TheWindowOfOrpheus The Window of Orpheus]]'', by Creator/RiyokoIkeda: [[spoiler:Julius is a girl forcibly raised as a boy by her BigScrewedUpFamily as a condition to be considered as a worthy inheritor. Julius desperately wants to live her life as she sees fit, though, and both her hate for her cruel relatives and her love for her friends and her abused mother drives her to a massively tragic life.]]

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'':
** North Italy was raised as a girl by Austria and Hungary. Though it's implied that everyone ''but'' [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Austria]] [[spoiler:(and the Holy Roman Empire, but that's another bag of cats)]] knew that he was a boy, simply going along with his crossdressing until Italy reached physical puberty and started openly presenting himself as a male.
** South Italy/Romano dressed up as a girl when living with Spain, but everyone treated him as a boy from the beginning likely because [[BrattyHalfPint he was much more brash and kinda bratty]].

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'': [[NationsAsPeople Hungary]] grows up living as a boy, then identifying as a female as she grew up -- the trick is that, as a child, she thought she really was a boy and thought that "we all get one when we get older anyway".

Compare and contrast WantedAGenderConformingChild and WantedASonInstead. Beware of inherent spoilers in the examples.

* ''[[Literature/BeastsInVelvet Beasts in Velvet]]'': [[spoiler:Viscount Leos von Liebowitz]] is raised as a boy because [[spoiler:his elder sister, Countess-to-be Emmanuelle von Liebowitz, declared she didn't want a sister taking the attention from her]]. ''He'' was repeatedly beaten if he showed any signs of femininity, including an awareness that he had girl parts. [[FreudianExcuse As a result]], he became a serial killer, targeting whores, while wearing his sister's green velvet cloak and dress. The truth of his gender was only discovered after his death.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': [[spoiler:Sayo Yasuda]]'s original gender is unknown and the narration and dialogues do nothing to help. A large reason that no one can tell due to secondary attributes is that [[spoiler:Sayo]]'s body didn't develop correctly [[ScarsAreForever due to a severe injury received as a baby]]. However, the manga heavily implies that [[spoiler:Sayo was actually a boy.]]

Compare and contrast WantedAGenderConformingChild. Beware of inherent spoilers in the examples.

* Yena from ''Manga/SetonAcademyJoinThePack'' grew up thinking that they were male because, due to being a hyena, they have a false penis and they somehow never figured out why their family members called them female.

* Their is a rare genetic disorder found in some African villages that cause male children to be born with genitals that look female until puberty, whereupon they start to grow a penis. The discovery that they were male all along often comes as a relief to these children, who in many cases felt that they fit in better with boys.

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* ''VisualNovel/YourTurnToDie'': The Convict/[[spoiler: Alice Yabusame]] has a GenderBlenderName and speaks in a way where he seems to be deliberately affecting a "masculine" tone despite being more used to speaking in a "feminine" one, slipping into it while panicked (and having apparently had it more consistently while younger in a flashback), yet still seems to identify as a man (even quite angrily and defensively) when asked about it. As he explains in the side game ''Your Time To Shine,'' his mother raised him as a girl until he confronted her about it. Whether this qualifies as him being {{Transgender}} or having an AmbiguousGenderIdentity is still vague, and the translator has said that it can be interpreted in different ways.

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* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': "Granted, I didn't grow up as a girl. At least, not for long. [{{beat}}] I-I have a history."