what the heck is a HERMAPHRODITE??
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lookin at your avatar & reading this question is far to sweet & innocent...hermaphrodites are human like you & I except hermaphrodites have both a vagina & a penis...some may tend to lean on one gender more than the other i.e.choosing to be more female than male(dress & look like female)...or the other way around.Hermaphrodites go through tough trials & tribulations in life in/out of family relationships due to having both sex organs...sometimes leaving them abused/molested as children many times by family members & what not.
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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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A hermaphrodite is an animal born with both male and female sexual organs.
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A chick with a dick.\n\nSomeone who was born with both male and female parts.
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Wrong!\n\nThe word you are trying to say is: Eunuch (not unaque)\nhttp://m-w.com/dictionary/eunuch\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch\n\nIf you are talking about people with both genders you are thinking of: Hermaphrodite\nhttp://m-w.com/dictionary/Hermaphrodite\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite\n.
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People are born with both genitals.  They're called hermaphrodites.
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In zoology, a hermaphrodite is an organism of a species whose members possess both male and female sexual organs during their lives. In many species, hermaphroditism is a normal part of the life-cycle. Generally, hermaphroditism occurs in the invertebrates, although it occurs in a fair number of fish, and to a lesser degree in other vertebrates.\n\nSee below for use of the term in plants.\n\nNote: The term "hermaphrodite" has historically been used to describe people with ambiguous genitalia or biological sex. The broader term intersexual is often used and is preferred by many such individuals and medical professionals. The term is still used by the pornography industry, though often as a synonym for transexual, as true human intersexuals are rare.\n\n\nIn animals\nSequential hermaphrodite: The organism is born as one sex and later changes into the other sex. \nProtandry: When the organism starts as a male, and changes sex to a female later in life. \nExample: The seabasses (Family Serranidae). These are a highly sought food fish complex made up of primarily groupers. Since even a small male can produce more than enough sperm to fertilize a huge number of eggs, while a female's egg output increases greatly with an increase in size, this strategy makes sense for an organism (fish in general) where over 90% of the eggs laid will not result in a fish that reaches sexual maturity. It has been shown that fishing pressure actually is causing a change in when the switch from male to female occurs, since fishermen naturally prefer to catch the larger fish. The populations are generally changing sex at a smaller size, due to artificial selection.
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Hermaphrodite is the correct name...This person is both male and female...it depends which sex/genda is more domineering as to what stands out.\n\nFor example:  A person looks female, but has a penis, but also has a uterus and ovaries for baby production.\nOr u can have a person that looks male but has a vagina.\n\nTo correct it depends on what the person wants there sex to be.  If they look female and want to be male they can have a hysterectomy where they remove all the uterus and leave them with a penis if they have them.\n\nIf it looks male then they do the opposite and can do the same surgery as above and make them female.
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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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I've never heard of it, but it could happen. I mean, monocygote twins (identical twins) are exactly alike, their development is the same like any other baby, except for the company :) So I guess it could happen, I've never read a report case on it. The odds of an hermaphrodite are very very low combined with the chances of monocygote twins, the odds are almost impossible (just guessing).
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oh... i get it. s/he is a shemale, right?
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telophase...it's basically the reverse of prophase.
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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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Sounds like your friend hooked up with a transexual. Here a shemale is a person who might have had breast augmentation or hormone treatment but still has the male bits downstairs.
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I hope you don't mind, I saw your other question and also posted this response, so, this is cross posting with extra added ^_~\n\nYes, the institution of education should include proper information about human bodies, ALL human bodies.  I don't know about lower level education, except in biology, we learn that snails and worms are hermaphrodites, there are over 36,000 sexes of mushrooms..etc but intersexes are not "hermaphrodites" and mushrooms certainly aren't human ^_~ As far as post secondary education, I did attend one Sociology class that talked about intersexes briefly. As for resistance, I am in Student Govt. and recently proposed an event for International Intersex Solidarity Day (nov. th) before the Executive Counsil and was shot down faster than a nuclear missile heading to WA DC. because they didn't know what i was talking about. They suggested i hand it off to the rainbow club. I was livid!\n\nIntersexes are either genital shapes and sizes not congruent with current dominant standards of genital shape and size preferences.\n\nIntersexes are also people whose chromosome patterns might not be xx or xy (such as xxy or xxxy, or xxxo, or xo, or mosaic meaning a mix of chromosome patters across different cells)\n\nIntersexes are also a mix of both of the above two options.\n\nThe thing about labeling someone intersex, is that when people from the medical community are deciding whether or not to label someone intersex, they often fluctuate as there is not set standard of criterion across the board.\n\nSome use size standards, such as a phallus that is larger than .9cm is too large for a female, therefore if the doctor feels that the [infant] should have been female according to the doctors preferences looking at genitals and /or chromosomes etc the doctor might trim the phallus or remove it (social construction of the female sex)\n\nAnd if the phallus is smaller than 2.5cm and/or the doctor feels that the [infant] would be unable to stand while urinating as an adult, on an [infant] the doctor feels should have been male according to the doctors preferences looking at genitals and/or chromosomes etc, the doctor might choose to do genital reconstructions and possibly hormone replacement therapy to construct the [infant] as a female regardless of chromosomes etc.\n\nSex is on a spectrum, you see, where the categories of male and female are not static, meaning, not absolute categories, but rather made up of cultural preferences, they are invented labels put on varrying places on the sex spectrum in order to validate a cultures claims of categories of sex, to perpetuate the segregation of human beings.\n\nIntersexes are often marginalized or stigmatized by societies in order to preserve the western binary gender and sex systems which declare that there are only two sexes, and only two corresponding genders, that both are biological, and that the placement of certain sex and gender labels on human bodies mean something, signify something, often socially and religeously. For this reason, many intersexes are subjected to cosmetic surgery, isolation, shame, discrimination, invalidation, and less access to vital medical care and information about their bodies. And often when they are given medical care or information, it is in such a way that highlights cultural preferences/standards for "male" and "female" and downplays the validity of a natural human body which does not conform to these cultural preferences.
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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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They are individuals that have both male and female reproductive parts.  They are called hermaphrodites.