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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

There are hermaphroditic humans. They are extremely rare and the condition is taken care of shortly after birth.


20 posted on 03/15/2023 9:08:28 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo
No.

You see this is what I am talking about when I rant about clarity of language. The condition you are talk is Intersex and is very sad but it does not a hermaphrodite make.

A hermaphrodite is an animal with both fully functional male and female genitalia. Because certain hormone levels are required for this to happen in mammals , it doesn't. If the intersex person is born with both sets of genitalia (usually by the absorbance of a fraternal twin in the womb) either one or more commonly both, will not be functional by which I mean they are not fertile. So not a hermaphrodite which is, in all ways, fertile.

24 posted on 03/15/2023 9:26:52 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ("EATING... BABIES.... IS NOT.... COOL!" -Rath)
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To: gitmo

“There are hermaphroditic humans.”

Not true functional hermaphrodites. A real hermaphrodite, like you might see in plants or amphibians, could both impregnate a female and be impregnated by a male. While there are some humans born with both sets of genitalia, they are never both actually functional to that degree.


27 posted on 03/15/2023 9:53:21 AM PDT by Boogieman
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