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Since all the monkeys were born from a stone I don’t think they had genitalia, of course they could pee and everything but there’s only a hole. The only way to change that is to shape shift their lower parts to anything they associate their gender with. Also they might be specific monkeys but they don’t even have any way to show that they’re male or female, I mean monkey king and macaque have eye lashes.
So when Mk was found Pigsy couldn’t tell what gender he was, so he assumed Mk was a little boy. He had short hair and masculine features but it was still hard to tell because he was a little kid, most little kids are hard to tell what gender they are unless their parents told you. They all look unisex until like 6 or 7. And Hc Mk was 5 when Pigsy found him.
So after eventually taking him to a doctor, to everyone’s surprise Mk had mostly feminine hormones and features from the tests showed by doctors. So from then on Mk was perceived as a girl for the majority of his younger years of his childhood. It wasn’t until he was 10 he confronted tang and Pigsy, saying he wasn’t happy after being called a girl since his first medical visit.
After a long conversation everyone agreed that Mk should be who he wants to be, so he started going by Mk until his legal name was changed. Eventually the nickname stuck even after his real name officially changed. Once in his teen years he started talking testosterone after saving up since the first conversation about his gender with his family. He couldn’t afford gender reassignment surgery which he didn’t want because it sounded terrifying.
I thought about his dead name as well, before being officially adopted he didn’t have a name, they just called him kid. But after his first doctors visit they gave him the name Qi Xiaowen (齐晓文), meaning little morning cloud. Which gave him inspiration for his current name Qi xiaotian, (齐小天) meaning together little sky. Also since his name is similar to monkey king’s mandarin name he also picked it from him using some of the characters to be like his idol.
and thus that is my overdramatic statement on my “Mk is intersex and Trans” head canon. Could even be a theory. If you liked it I plan on posting here a lot so you will see more of me