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| - It's not unusual to see a same-sex couple with a child. This arrangement can happen in many ways: children informally looked after by two same-sex platonic friends, adopted children looked after by their parent's same-sex roommate, adopted kids of an actual same-sex couple, natural children of one (usually divorced) partner who view the other same-sex partner as a parent, etc... But what about the child who is born to two genetic parents of the same sex? For simplicity's sake, this trope turns a blind eye to the exact method of birth (People Jars, womb, etc.) and sticks to naming any kid who draws their genetic heritage from two individuals of the same sex, regardless of how they were incubated/born, and whether this was the result of magic, shapeshifting, DNA splicing, or Bizarre Alien Biology. Theoretically it should be possible even for two cisgender women to have a biological child by a process called haploidization, or through creating sperm cells from one of the two mother's bone marrow. This would theoretically mean that all of their children would be female due to the lack of a Y chromosome. For males, there is research being conducted on the creation of male eggs, which consists of removing the nucleus of an ovum and replacing it with the nucleus of a sperm. This new egg would then be fertilized by sperm from the other father. The process has been documented in mice and its viability in human reproduction is still being developed. Related to Has Two Mommies. Compare Truly Single Parent. Contrast Face Full of Alien Wingwong. Can result in Mister Seahorse. Often a necessity in a One-Gender Race. Not to be confused with Your Tomcat Is Pregnant. Examples of Homosexual Reproduction include:
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