Sentence:  A few boys still playing ringolievio, haphazard and half speed, the clumsy fatboy trapped in the den, always caught, always "it", the slightly <WSD>epicene</WSD> butterfat bulk, the boy who's always reaching down to lift a droopy sock and getting swift-kicked by the witlings and sadists. Is that what being "it" means? Neutered, sexless, impersonalized. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of indeterminate sex, whether asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex; of a human face, intermediate in form between a man's face and a woman's face.