What are the odds of a true hermaphrodite? 1 in 1,000,000?
Other than that it’s pretty darned simple to know what sex, AND GENDER, you are by feeling around the groin area.
“Other than that it’s pretty darned simple to know what sex, AND GENDER, you are by feeling around the groin area.”
Yeah, but if you greet people that way they tend to get a little defensive :(
As far as they know a true (human) hermaphrodite is beyond rare.
Here is what would have to happen.
You would have to have fraternal twins. One twin would have to absorb the other in the womb leaving their sexual organs totally intact.
Chances of that are slim but possible.
Here is where the problem arises.
For those organs to develop properly and be fully functional you would have to have your body secrete the proper hormones and what would help one set develop would retard the development of the other. But let us assume that happens somehow.
To produce viable sperm you need more testosterone then a normal female reproductive system could deal with.
To produce viable eggs you need more estrogen then the normal male reproductive system could deal with.
So one side could not be fertile.
Now you might be able to switch which side is fertile with hormone therapy but you would do major damage to the body.
So even with medical help a true hermaphrodite (both male and female at all times) is simply not possible.