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China factory worker with dual reproductive systems has kids with man and woman, shocks public

Nation amazed by condition which saw person spend first half of life as a woman, the second as man and now is called both ‘mum’ and ‘dad’

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The story of a factory worker in China with dual reproductive systems, who has had children with both a man and woman, has shocked the nation. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/Weibo
Alice Yanin Shanghai

A woman in southwestern China who has two reproductive systems has given birth to a wave of fascination across mainland social media.

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Her condition, coupled with the twists and turns of her life, has left her in remarkable position of being, all at once, a “mother” and a “father” to two sons produced from two different marriages, the first to a man and then to a woman.

The 59-year-old, born in a village in Bishan county of Chongqing municipality, remains a woman, according to her identity card, the Chongqing Morning Post reported.

She developed different preferences and dispositions from most girls in her childhood.

For example, she liked cutting her hair short and wearing male clothes.

The 59-year-old has two sons, one was conceived with a man and the other with a woman. Photo: Weibo
The 59-year-old has two sons, one was conceived with a man and the other with a woman. Photo: Weibo

When she used the girl’s toilet at school, the woman, surnamed Liu, was often told she was going to the wrong place because she looked so much like a boy, the report said.

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