Janet Ogundepo Senior obstetricians and gynaecologists have stated that individuals with female external features who were born with both male and female sexual organs (intersex) could father children. The experts, however, clarified that this was possible in intersex females who have functional and developed male reproductive organs. They noted that although such cases were rare, they were possible and had happened in medical history.
Their statement is coming on the heels of a recent interview with an intersex female, Queen Obukoko, who after failed relationships with men impregnated two women. The report by Sunday PUNCH detailed how she had discovered a penile-like growth around her groin while growing up and had tried several things to ‘treat’ it. Although Obukoko looks and has a female structure, she stated that she began to urinate through the male genitalia when she was 15 years old.
Obukoko further noted that she had trouble maintaining romantic relationships with men as they abandoned her whenever they discovered her condition. After the failed relationships, the 30-year-old stated that she decided to have romantic relationships with women, which led to the birth of a son and daughter. Although details of whether Obukoko knew a family member with such a condition were unclear, she hinted at the possibility of her newborn daughter being intersex.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, people who are intersex have a sexual and reproductive anatomy that does not fit int.