what is the opposite of a hermaphrodite?
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Well, if a hermaphodite is both sexes, then the opposite would naturally be something with no sex. Asexual.
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A person born with the "opposite sex's genitals", or to put it better, who has mixed sex characteristics, is an intersexed individual.  'Hermaphrodite' is a more antiquated term, but 'intersexed' is the best right now.\n\nPeople who change their sex through surgery and hormones are called 'transsexuals'- not to be confused with 'transgenders', who are individuals who present mixed/opposite gender but do not intend to physically alter their bodies.\n\nHope that helps!
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For males or females?  My friend had his reversed, and he was able to have a little girl.  I believe a urologist can reverse it.
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Some examples of natural groups of animals in which hermaphroditism occurs:\nmollusks (e.g. garden snails)\nearthworms (annelids in general)\nnematodes\nechinoderms\nfish\n\nMost plants, especially angiosperms.\n\nPS: Seahorses are _not_ hermaphrodites. Males have a brooding pouch for their offspring, but they're males all the same.
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frogs!\nnaturally a partner is compelled to change sex in order to procreate!\n\nIn man evoloution, this could have exist since stone age!
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No they would be considered hermaphrodites not transvestites. A transvestite would be Clay Aiken while a hermaphrodite would be Dennis Rodman.
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Opposite:\n- situated on the other side;\n- facing;\n- completely different;\n- on the other side;\n- antithetical;\n- being the other of two complementary or mutually exclusive things: the opposite sex; an opposite role to the lead in the play
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yes there are all types my fav is the hermaphrodite this person has both penis and vagina from birth there are sex change operation as well need more look up hermaphrodite or sex change on yahoo
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Flower\nIf both sexes are in the same flower (and plant) then it is a HERMAPHRODITE\nIf not, then they will be female and male plants (of the same species)
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No, they are hermaphrodites, so the question does not apply, for obvious reasons.
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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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do you mean a hermaphrodite?\nA person with both male and female sexual parts.
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Congress. Using this logic though, the opposite of Constitution is prostitution. The opposite of protest is contest? The English language is tricky.
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The NO SeX chromosome.
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There are also children. *g* Now if you are talking about male and female genders, there are also hermaphrodites and others with genetic abnormalities.
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It's called intersex, and here's links that may help.\n\nIntersex Defined:  A person who is born between (inter) sexes, having partially or fully developed pairs of female and male sex organs.  Intersexed is prefered over the word hermaphrodite.  Also, intersexism should be used in place of intersexuality to try and be consistent in this distinction. It is purely a physical and gender thing and not a sexual one beyond the physical of the sex organs.  Otherwise, this is all about “sex” organs and not “sexual” organs. \n-\nOrigin of the Term:  Hermaphroditus, the merger of the mythological Greek god, Hermes, and goddess, Aphrodite, into one body. The term intersex came into being as early as 1949, and is the preferred term today. In fact most intersexed people do not consider themselves to be both sexes, which is what the term hermaphrodite implies.\n-\nThe Issue of Sexual Assignment at Birth...\n   From the moment of birth, everybody wants to know if it is a boy or a girl.  This question can be complicated when a third option is introduced.  One out of every two thousand children in America is born intersexual (125,000 living in the United States today--enough to fill a good sized city). There is a point in fetal development when the sex of the child could go either way.  The only reason you are not the opposite sex had to do with something called testosterone.  The fetus that becomes a male is bathed with it, whereas, it is absent in the development of a female.  In one case, the sexual organ extends itself into a penis.  Conversely, a fetus becomes female when there is no release of testosterone and the sexual organ extends inwardly.  The natural development from that moment on determines which sex we are to become.\n   However, sometimes biology malfunctions and children are born with mixed sexual characteristics in what is called an intersexual birth.  For some intersexuals, whether they are boys or girls is never really clear to them.  Many argue that the standard practice of sexual assignment by surgery in infancy should be discontinued giving the intersexual the right to choose or not to choose surgery once that individual reaches adolescence.  Whatever the choice, intersexuals show us that gender is infinitely more complex than the shape of our genitals.\n--\nFive Sexes...\n   What are herms, merms and ferms? \nThese terms were used by Anne Fausto-Sterling in her 1993 article in _The Sciences_ "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female are not enough". Herm refers to "true hermaphrodite"; a merm would be a person born intersexed whose karyotype was XY (nominally male) and a ferm is an XX intersexed person (nominally female). These delineations serve to educate people that sex is not a bipolar dichotomy, but they do not really classify intersexed people themselves in any meaningful way. \n   If abnormalities of cell division occur, a fetus with mosaicism may result. The baby may have both cells with 46 XY chromosomes and cells with 46 XX chromosomes. This is the condition referred to a hermorphoditism.  Because both male and female cells exist within the same fetus, both male and female structures develop. Typically, the penis is not completely virilized (hypospadias). One or both testes may not be palpable or they may be palpable, but undescended. Whenever you see an infant with both hypospadias and an undescended testis (cryptorchidism), the result is hermaphroditism. \n   Hydroxylase deficiency in female embryos causes androgenic stimulation and development of the genital tubercle and labio-scrotal folds just as normal production of testosterone does in male embryos. This can result in a female infant having marked enlargement of the clitoris to the degree that it takes the appearance of a penis and fusion of the labioscrotal folds into a scrotum-like structure.\n-\nUnderstanding the Complexities of Intersexuality...\n   Anne Fausto-Sterling wrote, "At birth, instead of hearing the i
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we are more similar than most realize, esp if we look at the embryological origins of these m-f tissues.\n\nInternally both genders started out with NON-differentiated gonads.  If the XX is present, this turns into an ovary in embryo USUALLY.  If XY is present, then it turns into testes USUALLY.  \n\nIn the embryo there are also BOTH sets of tubes: Wollfian ducts and Mullerian ducts.  Wollfian ducts will become vas deferens.  The Mullerian duct will become the oviduct-Fallopian tubes. Pseudohermaphrodites might not differentiate thoroughly.\n\nExternally we all started out as an anatomical female.  Essentially a guy is a closed up female.  During embryo-fetal development the genitals of the baby are very confusing if you don't know what you are looking at.  Essentially, the penis that grows is an enlarged clitoris.  It has 3 erectile tissues in it, where as the clitoris has 2 erectile tissues.  (clitoris does not have the urethra growing in it, so she does not urinate with a clitoris) Many people call the clitoris a small penis, but embryologically speaking it is the other way around.  Both genders have labia in utero....the labia stay and persist in the female, but if it is an XY, the labia are supposed to close up.  The seam seen on the underside of the scrotum (separating the scrotum into rt-lt halves-compartments to hold each testicle) and the underside of the penis (kinda looks like a scar, but it is NOT a circumcision scar, it is the seam where he closed up when his genitals were more female. \n\nOne of the most common birth defects found in the penis is hypospadius, where the underside of the penis has not closed up all the way and so the urine comes out the underside of the head of the penis instead of the tip of the penis where the normal urethral opening is, thus the penis is not completely masculinized and closed up. There is a rarer deformity called epispadius, but the urine hole is on the top of the head of the penis.\n\nThere are both true hermaphrodites and at least three kinds of pseudohermaphrodites in humans.  True hermaphrodites have both ovary and testis.  Pseudo have either or, but the other organs are all mix-match male and female combinations internally and externally.\n\nDuring embryo development there are critical hormonal changes that help to masculinize the brain of males.  If baby is an XX then the masculinizing hormones are not released and the baby's brain stays feminized.  Mothers who take masculinizing hormones during pregnancy can masculinize their daughter's brains.  They might also turn a normal genetic female into a anatomical male.  (Happins in animals too, can get a whole litter to be males if masc hormones given at critical time of embryo dev.)  \n\nAlso females transexuals who take testosterone as adults will go thru a male puberty and be very transformed a lot within 6 months.  They will grow a lot more hair (beards, body, etc) they will grow a bigger larynx, muscles will get leaner-muscular, voice will deepen, their clitoris will grow to be about the size of a thumb and their sexual aggression with be peaked.  Their family will not recognize them in 6 months.  \n\nThus, males and females are a lot a like.  It is easy to make a male to female transexual surgically because you are taking away the male structures that were ADDED at embryo development.  When you make a male from a female transexual, stuff has to be ADDED to make the female.\n\nThus everyone starts out with the feminized brain, feminized genitalia, and BOTH sets of m-f tubes internally. We have structural homologies of all our organs (in the opposite sex) If all goes well, however, the genetic sex and the internal-external m-f traits all match, PLUS the sexual-gender identity will match the chromosomes and the genitals-gametes-gonads.