How are animals that can change their sex (oysters, certain fish, etc.) able to then reproduce as that sex?

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People can change their sexual characteristics with hormone therapy and surgeries, but having the reproductive capacity of the opposite sex is unfortunately not possible; while uterus transplants are theoretically possible, even then, a donor/IVF would be needed because the ovaries wouldn’t have eggs with the mother’s DNA. So how can some animals do what we with all of our technological advancements can’t?

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ELi5 – some organisms can be boys and girls at the same time, sometimes they make themselves babies. Some do asexual reproduction.

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