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To: Texan5

One of my highschool friends was a hermaphrodite who chose female early on with no interference from her parents. When she became an adult she finished the process surgically.

She was always reasonably well adjusted because no one interfered with the direction she chose. She was just one of the hometown crowd to us.


55 posted on 06/23/2013 9:36:10 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

I’d never actually met anyone who was born a hermaphrodite until the 1980’s-when I was working as a workers comp case manager, I had a male client who had born so-he was in his mid-30’s, married and had a naturally-created child with his wife.

Since he had all the necessary male parts, internally and externally, and not a complete set of female ones, he showed a natural inclination to maleness, and had gender assignment surgery as a teen, when testosterone production confirmed what testing had already shown.

He told me about that part of his life in a very open manner, and he was completely comfortable with it, rather then treating it as a dark secret, or with any drama.

There are several famous/well known people who are rumored to have been born hermaphrodites, and been assigned the appropriate gender surgically...


62 posted on 06/23/2013 10:27:48 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: cripplecreek
Most real hermaphrodism is simply being of one main sex with vestiges of the counterpart sexual organs. In other words, they don't have both sperm-producing male gonads and egg-producing female gonads - only one, but with the superficial "appearance" of some of the other's exterior sexual organs. Not a hard decision for a doctor to make.
65 posted on 06/23/2013 10:57:42 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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