Hmm, it seemed Ranma had been a girl for most of the early part of Mystique's pregnancy, but had then been subjected to some aspect of Mystique's own shifting power. Xavier switched over to where he detected Mystique's mind, scanning carefully as she was trained to avoid his probing, using her recent focus on Ranma to refine his search.
Ah yes... it seemed that Mystique had an ultrasound and discovered that she was going to have a daughter, but knew that Genma would never care for one, and at the time had not known of a way to contact Wolverine and knew she'd have to leave her child behind in a couple years as Magneto's plans started in earnest. Somehow, not realizing she'd done it or been able to do it, she had used her shifting power on the unborn child through the umbelical chord in order to transform the unborn baby into a boy, and the doctors and Mystique herself had merely believed the initial ultrasound had been mistaken when the truth was revealed, she'd even managed to imprint some of Genma's traits upon Ranma. Without a shifting power of his/her own, or mutant power activating to wipe away the transformation, Ranma's normal body remained male, at least in shape and attitude in the same way Mystique could mimic various personalities, a simple DNA test would have proved that Ranma was really a girl, although not how Ranma had taken a male form.
Unfortunately, this complicated things immensely for when Ranma came to the Mansion, if the curse wasn't removed, Ranma would one day die only to have his soul consumed by Jyuusenkyo, although Ranma would be able to continue to pretend to be at least half boy for the remainder of his life, if the curse was removed, it would likely pull Ranma's male form away with it, leaving Ranma fully female, and would likely be heavily insecure and distrust Xavier, blaming him for her loss of manhood because he'd have been the one to reveal the truth she doesn't want to her, and convince her to have the curse removed.
What could he do?
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