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By Stanman63

Are there any stories where Siamese twins of different genders was ever created? If so, would they be intersexed?

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Not quite what you're looking for, but one of the mutants created by the evil guy in the horror comedy "Freaked" was a conjoined male/female pair. The only intersexed mutant was Mr. T as a Bearded Lady, though.

According to what I've read online...

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...there are no cases of hermaphroditic conjoined twins. Conjoined twins are almost always the same gender. The medical and genetic issues that would be present for what you've discussed would be so overwhelming that even if it was possible, the children wouldn't survive. Too many variables to overcome, I suppose.


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Percentages would not favor that at all!

1 in 200,000 to 250,000 true intersexed times 1 in 300,000,000 approximate true conjoined would be the likely formula, making it highly improbable for even a live birth, and even then the survival rate would be non-existent. Of course, in the world of Science Fiction, I suppose anything is possible, I suppose that begs the question, why? An anomaly of that sort really doesn't do the tg community justice, and seems to be just a bit indulgent for the sake of a story, but that's just my opinion.

About as close as I have seen in a story is this...

the following lines come from the second posting of "Don't Blame Me, I'm a Martin" by Bailey Summers.


“They said that you’re developing breast tissue, that after they took a few samples and stuff that they’re sort of…stumped. The best thing they can come up with is something called Chimeraism.”

“What the hell’s that?”

“Well it’s when there’s twins in the womb and something happens that one twin actually absorbs the other one or something and you get some pretty odd things that can and might happen.”

“Like What?”

“Well like the tests that they’ve done show that they think that different parts of your body are just that different. There’s some evidence that these parts are like if you had transplanted tissues from your identical twin sister. You’re a perfect match for these organs and parts but some of them are actually genetically female.”

“Oh, holy crap…”

Mom nods. “It’s really rare and usually comes with a whole lot of health problems but other than what you’ve started to go through you’re in really good health honey, it could be worse.”

“What I’m going through?”

“You’re starting to go through puberty and some parts of you are going to start to mature like a…”

I hang my head. “Like a girl.”

She nods and hugs me. Dad rubs my leg a bit soothingly. I look at them both. “So do I have like other girl bits?”

Mom shakes her head. “They just got some of the test results back and while you were passed out they did an ultra sound but they didn’t find any womb or ovaries or tubes or even a vaginal canal or anything that was out of the ordinary like that. Some of your bone structure is definitely female including your pelvis. So you’re going to have an unusual built to say the least and they have no idea how or why you’re producing the levels of female hormones that you are but they’re equally confused at the amount of male hormones you’re producing as well.”