Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Intersex News

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Cool!

On a related note, I have an intersex character in my latest story project, a story that was inspired by a crossover fan fiction between Harry Potter and The Addams Family.
>>On a related note, I have an intersex character in my latest story project, a story that was inspired by a crossover fan fiction between Harry Potter and The Addams Family.<<

Go you!

I've written about characters who would be considered intersex in our culture, but are thought of differently than their own. I've got more than a few alien or fantasy races with different genetics -- my Hailen elves are all XXY (females) or XYY (males) because the elven sex chromosomes are a bit different, which means that a first-generation elf/human hybrid is effectively about 2/3 elven.

I could've sworn I had an intersex character in Polychrome Heroics, because I can remember looking up the details, but I can't find them in the character notes. I may not have put the character sheet in that file yet. Drat. I should probably just make another one.
Heck, aren't dogs like W and some other different letter rather than XY? Chromosomes vary a lot by species, and the letter designation goes by what shape the chromosomes look like. X looks like an X, Y looks like a Y, and W looks like a W.

The Goblins in my Ravenstone story (the same story with the intersex human character) have three sexes. Male, Female, and an incubator sex. The females and incubators get to go out doing things, it's the much smaller males that are kept like pets, confined mostly to the house.

The intersex character in my Ravenstone story is also part of a poly triad, BTW.