Title: The Little King (小夫君)
Author: Amongst the Clouds (云间)
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Tensions between the Kingdom of Xia and the Northwest Barbarians rise as they continue to fight on the border. To maintain a fragile alliance, the 'Princess' of peace Xia Xi was gift...
«Intersex is a general term used for a variety of situations in which a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't fit the boxes of "female" or "male." Sometimes doctors do surgeries on intersex babies and children to make their bodies fit binary ideas of "male" or "female".» —www.plannedparenthood.org
2) Wait, so he's a hermaphrodite then?
No! These are two completely different terms with a rich history behind each. Here's a relatively simple explanation:
«Humans can only be intersex due to their inability to be viable with both eggs and sperm, while plants and some species of animals can be hermaphrodites too. Hermaphrodites are always viable for reproduction, while some intersex individuals are not always able to reproduce and may be infertile.»
—anunnakiray.com
3) Oh, so what kind of intersex is Xia Xi?
His biology leans more towards women.
4) What's his sexuality then?
Well, gay, I guess.
5) No, no— is he like, considered trans or something?
......
(I don't know)
6) What does his coochie look like?
You know, we would all know pretty much very soon, but I have a chart here if you're really curious (credits to the owner because I just found this on Quora).
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7) If Xia Xi and his twin looked alike, are they identical?
Yesss (kind of).
8) What do you mean, 'kind of'?
Well, the human body is full of mysteries, and a very quick googling brought me (and by extension you) this answer:
« In fraternal, or dizygotic, twins, two different eggs are fertilized by two different sperm. With semi-identical twins, an egg is fertilized by two sperm, forming a triploid, which then splits in two. The first sesquizygotic twins were identified in 2007. —www.newsweek.com
Such twins (the 2007 pair) are probably very rare. Their existence and discovery relies on three unusual, and possibly unlinked, events: first, that an egg fertilized by two sperm develops into a viable embryo; second, that this embryo splits to form twins; and third, that the children come to the attention of science.
"There's value in understanding that this can happen, but it's extremely unlikely that we'll ever see another case," says Charles Boklage, an expert on twinning who works at Eastern Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
Souter and her colleagues investigated the twins' genetic makeup because one was born with ambiguous genitalia. This twin turned out to be a 'true hermaphrodite', with both ovarian and testicular tissue. The other twin is anatomically male. » —www.nature.com
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