what do you think about hermaphrodites? have you ever seen one?
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Hermaphrodites don't have some kind of "mark". They are normal human beings and you will never know of their 'difference' unless they choose to reveal it to you. \n\nWhat do I "think of them"? Nothing different than what I think of anyone.
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do you mean a hermaphrodite?\nA person with both male and female sexual parts.
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You might want to do a little reading about hermaphroditism before you start asking such silly questions. \nHermaphrodites are people who have the external sexual characteristics of both sexes. They can choose which they prefer to be, and have surgery to remove the excess organs. But they are rarely fully developed. Most often they are almost vestiginal and in some cases their condition is overlooked in childhood and doesn't become evident until they hit puberty. \n\nCan't you find something better to do than pose such stupid questions as these?
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Yes, if she is born a hermaphrodite.  It is rare in it's occurrance, but it does happen. To men too! As a fetus we are all female. It just takes the right hormone at the right time to create a male.
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Transsexuals only have one type of genitalia--either the one they were born with, or the one created by sexual reassignment surgery.  You are thinking of hermaphrodites or intersexed people.
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How come people show concern about it this much?  Like some other person said, for a big number of the world male population this is normal.  I think this is one of the things that have been recorded on people's mind, I swear.  Why there is not a lot of repulsion toward the female reproductive organ.  As I see it, there are more opportunities for it to be of concern.  A lot more of skin goin this way and the other.  A cavity for breeding of all kind of nasties.  But you know, I am not concerned, because I was not taught in that belief (maybe I should)
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Hermaphrodite is an outdated word for those born with an indiferentiated Physical sex (i.e. cannot be immediatly labeled as male or female by looking at birth).  The new word is: Intersex  If you do a web search on that word you will find information that is easier to digest.   "She Male" is not used excusivly by any community (that I know of), it could be a transgender person (who is not neccessarily intersexed).
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In humans, hermaphrodites are infertile. They are often called the 3rd sex or intersex. There are various kinds of the 3rd sex due to the type of genetic abnormality. At birth, the baby could have an ambiguous genitalia such as an enlarged clitoris that looks sort of like a penis (for something weird look up spotted hyenas...) or a small penis or non-descended testes. There are also cases where you look externally like a girl, then at puberty you suddenly grow a penis due to surge of testosterone. Very common in the Dominican Republic. \n\nRegardless, to be pregnant, a human needs ovaries and uterus (internal) and a vagina (external). The ovaries need to release an egg that a sperm can fertilize. Hermaphrodites are often a mix of the two sexes, and/or missing the "appropriate" organs.\n\nOther species can be hermaphrodites and sexually or assexually reproduce just fine. Some species of fish actually switch their sex (think Jurassic Park movie). Some species actually only are female. Other species that reproduce sexually but in the hermaphrodite capacity do not create idential copies of themselves as that would be asexual reproduction. Those species mate...it's very complicated and depends on a variety of genetic, physical, hormonal, and social factors.
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I have never heard of anything that can change gender (or sex) unless through operation as for human beings. And moreover a frog is from a tadpole hatched from an egg.
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A eunuch is a castrated male. A hermaphrodite is a person which can have both male and female genitals.
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They're a mammalian characteristic.  Gender differentiation doesn't override the basic template for mammals.  Male/female is chromosomal.  Other physical differences are mainly hormonal.
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if you find one, tell me about it!
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So what will they do, I know there are people born with both organs of male and female.. How will you do this? Very interesting...
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The medically preferred term for "hermaphrodism" is "intersexuality". In many cases of intersexuality, the individual is neither XX or XY - in Klienfelter's Syndrome, the child has one or even two extra X chromosomes (XXXY or XXY) - in Turner's Syndrome there is a single X (XO). You are probably referring to the rare type of intersexuality known as Chimerism, where some of the body's cells are XY and others are XX. Studies of chimeric animals have demonstrated the ability to give birth, but the gender of the resulting children are apparently determined by which of the mother's cells are involved in the fertilization.\n\nYou may want to read up on Chimerism, but I don't believe it is conceptually possible for an intersexual to give birth to its own child.
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A hermaphrodite is an animal born with both male and female sexual organs.
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for the most part, no.  i couldn't say where they DO come from, but it's not human, that much is obvious.  i've seen the ones people claim, and there are definite differences in appearance between the manmade ones and the unexplained ones.  the unexplained tend to be more perfect and symmetrical than the manmade ones.
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In most cases, a hermaphrodite will have one sex that is more dominant than the other.  The recessive sex organs are usually altered or removed leaving the person with only one set of sex organs.  In that case, the point of whether a hermaphorodite is gay or not depends on their choices later in life.