A woman with two reproductive systems shocked a city in southwestern China after having children with both a woman and a man.
According to a report by the Chongqing Morning Post, the anonymous 59-year-old woman, born in a village in Bishan County, Chongqing Municipality, was registered as a woman on her ID card.
However, she developed preferences and traits different from most girls in her childhood, such as liking to cut her hair short and wearing men’s clothing. At 18, the woman, surnamed Liu, married a man named Tang and had a child with him a year later.
But suddenly, her body began undergoing inexplicable changes. A surge of male hormones overtook her body, causing a beard to grow on her face and her reproductive organs to develop. This became so difficult for her husband to handle that they soon divorced.
Liu left her child with the father and moved to another county, where she started working in a shoe factory and began living as a man. There, a colleague named Zhou fell in love with him.
He initially rejected Zhou’s advances for fear that she would find his physical condition strange, but the two eventually became a couple. Later, they wanted to marry, but since Liu was still registered as “female” and same-sex marriage is banned in China, Liu asked her ex-husband for help.
She asked Tang to help register the marriage between her and Zhou, and in return, she promised to give more money to help raise their child. Tang agreed, and the two got married.
What’s surprising is that after living with Zhou for several years, she became pregnant. In the early 2000s, she gave birth to her first child with Liu. As a result, Liu now has two children, one calling her “mother” and the other calling her “father.”
Liu’s story was first reported by the newspaper in 2005. After the case gained popularity, she rejected offers from doctors to conduct detailed exams on her condition.
It’s worth noting that gender transition procedures are very expensive in China, so Liu is still registered as a “female.”
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