Was Ciara really a hermaphrodite or something at birth?
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No! That's a pretty mean rumor. It is absolutely not true, and I think she's really pretty. Read this article for more info:\n\nhttp://www.snopes.com/music/artists/ciara.asp\n\nThe rumor seemed to be started because there IS a person with a website named Ciara who had a sex change. It was not the singer, though. Here is that person's website:\nhttp://indigo.ie/~prospero/ciara.htm
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Hermaphrodites, and Michael Bolton fans
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There is a syndrome called Klinefelters.\nHere, a male will have chromosomes XXY,\nand more than likely will appear from the outside to be female.  The genitals don't develop as a normal males, sometimes looking like he has female organs.  Cases such as these usually end up with the biological boy to be raised by a girl, and may even grow breasts during puberty.  For some klinefelters people, their masculine characteristics can appear during puberty or adulthood.  These women, are now resembled as men, and even their genital areas can develop into that of typical males, thus a woman turning into a man.  So some of the stories about women turning into men in history are true in a sense, although these women were not completely biologically female to begin with.
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"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 transsexual, as true human intersexuals are rare."\n\nIntrasexuality is not necessarily chimerism and chimerism is not necessarily intarsexuality or hermaphroditism\n\n"Tetragametic chimerism is a less common cause of congenital chimerism. It occurs through the fertilization of two ova by two spermatozoa, followed by the fusion of the zygotes and the development of an organism with intermingled cell lines. This happens at a very early stage of development, such as that of the blastocyst. Such an organism is called a tetragametic chimera as it is formed from four gametes — two eggs and two sperm.\n\nAs the organism develops, the resulting chimera can come to possess organs that have different sets of chromosomes. For example, the chimera may have a liver composed of cells with one set of chromosomes and have a kidney composed of cells with a second set of chromosomes. This has occurred in humans, though it is considered extremely rare."\n\n"Affected persons are identified by the finding of two populations of red cells or ambiguous genitalia and hermaphroditism alone or in combination; such persons sometimes also have patchy skin or eye pigmentation. If the blastocysts are of the same sex, it can only be detected through DNA testing, which itself is currently rare, and it may be more common than currently believed. If the blastocysts are of opposite sex, genitals of both sexes are formed, either ovary and testis, or combined ovotestes, in one rare form of intersexuality, a condition previously known as true hermaphroditism. As of 2003, there were about 40 human cases in the literature, according to New Scientist.\n\n\n\n\nAccording to the New England Journal of Medicine, vol 338, p 166, physicians in the Western General Hospital of Edinburgh have reported on a child with a penis, one testicle, and an ovary and fallopian tube instead of a second testicle. Some of this child's body cells are XY (male), and some are XX (female). The child was conceived as the result of in-vitro fertilization, and it appears most likely that two embryos, a male embryo and a female embryo, fused before or soon after embryos were transferred to the mother's uterus.\n\nThis kind of condition, where there is more than one set of cell lines with different sets of chromosomes making up the body is known as chimerism. This kind of tetraploid chimerism can also occur naturally, without in-vitro fertilization (see New England Journal of Medicine, vol 346, p 1545).\n\nNot all cases of Chimerism involve intersexuality, however. There have been about 40 known cases worldwide of humans reproducing naturally and producing offspring with absolutely no genetic similarities between mother and child. Discovery Health Channel has produced a documentary on two families and their issues in dealing with chimerism. It was called "I Am My Own Twin.""
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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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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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"Is it true that Ciara is pregnant by bow wows baby?"\n\nI'd hope not, since given that bow wow is barely legal, bow wow's baby is most definitely not legal.
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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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According to Wikipedia, Ciara's birthday is actually October 25th. It just must be a coincidence or a special that shows her playing videos back to back. If you're watching it on FUSE, it could be a Loaded special where they play back-to-back videos of the same artist for a half hour :) If it's one of the other channels, I have no clue. Maybe it's Ciara Appreciation Day :-P :)
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1. it's CIARA\n2. learn to spell\n3. no; bow wow is not the finest boy ever.
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A person that is born with both male and female sex organs is called a hermaphrodite.   This is a very rare condition.  Before the discovery of the DNA molecule, surgeons would assign a sex to the person based on which set of organs were most prominent.  So if the penis was most prominent, they were assigned a male gender and all the female sex organs were removed, and vice-versa.  Since the discovery of the DNA molecule, all hermaphrodites tested so far, have tested genetically female.
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YES, as I was surprised to learn, the person is called a "chimera"...it's a REAL medical condition!\n\nshort, but informative article:\nhttp://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=23
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Do you believe everything you hear?  If so, I've got a bridge to sell you....\n\nRead this and educate yourself.\n\nhttp://www.snopes.com/music/artists/ciara.asp
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It depends.  If your "sister" was born with ambiguous genitalia, but had XY chromosomes, then, yes, "she" would be your brother, because "she" would be genetically male.  However, if your sister was born with ambiguous genitalia, but had XX chromosomes, she would still be your sister, because she would be genetically female.  It also depends on how your sister identifies herself.  She may have balls and be genetically male, but if she identifies and presents herself as female, then she would still be your sister.  However, "she" identified and presented as a male, "she" would be your brother.\n\nPeople are born with ambiguous genitalia all the time.  The only way to tell the sex of the child is to do a DNA test.  Some folks are born XXY or XYY, or even XXYY.  Some folks just don't feel like they were born the right gender, so they psychologically identify as the opposite gender.\n\nSelf-identity is the first determination of gender.  Chromosomes are the second.  Genitals are a distant third, and, considering the miracles modern surgery can render, really can not be relied on to determine sex.\n\nDidn't think this question would generate such a long response, did you?
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The term is Sequential Hermaphrodite.
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That Ciara was a man.  So little old bow wow didnt know how to handle it.
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He had "Hel", a half-living half dead woman who ruled Helheim (the underworld). In those three births, he was the father. However he had another child, Sleipnir, Odin's horse, and in that case he was the mother. Hence, he is often believed to have been vaguely hermaphroditic.