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To: WhiskeyX

My point almost ver batim is that the medical definition of hermaphroditism doesn’t exist

But for you it does even if incomplete

Ok

Give me an example of a human who is both male and female


131 posted on 05/03/2016 10:43:42 AM PDT by wardaddy (gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
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To: wardaddy

“My point almost ver batim is that the medical definition of hermaphroditism doesn’t exist”

Nowhere in the quoted medical and other dictionaries consulted does you definition appear. I have in front of me Human Sexuality: A Medico-Literary Treatise of the History and Pathology of the Sex Instinct for the use of Physicians and Jurists by J. Richardson Parke, Sc.B., Ph.G., M.D. (Late Acting Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Army), 1912. My great grandfather used this reference book in his medical and surgical practice at the time it was published in 1912. Although the book talks about sexual inversions, Sapphism, homosexuality, hermaphroditism, and much more, nowhere does it use your definition for an hermaphrodite. Neither has any other medical or non-medical dictionary. On the contrary, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, the Sixth Edition, 1885 defined:
HERMAPHRODITE [ . . . ] An animal uniting two sexes. HERMAPHRODITICAL. [ . . . ] Partaking of both sexes.

“But for you it does even if incomplete”

Why would anyone adopt your definition when the standard medical dictionaries, non-medical dictionaries from 1785 to the present year of 2016 only require partial testicular and ovular tissues and not fully functioning testicular and ovular organs as you have wrongly claimed?

“Give me an example of a human who is both male and female”

The same person you would deny entrance to the Women’s Restroom because of the presence of a penis and also deny entrance to the Men’s Restroom due to the wearing of women’s clothing and the need to menstruate into the toilet.


135 posted on 05/03/2016 11:32:10 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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