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To: zeebee
He is not a hermaphrodite.

There is no such thing and there has never been one documented case of a hermaphrodite mammal. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.

It is not phenotype that determines gender. Anyone with a Y-chromosome is male. A hermaphrodite, by definition, can produce both male and female fertile sex cells by meiosis.

The article is pushing a deliberate lie...

22 posted on 09/12/2009 6:52:24 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Various definitions...not being confined to a scientific definition....the term is appropriate for Caster....

one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

The Hermaphrodite is an incomplete novel by Julia Ward Howe about a hermaphrodite raised as a male, but whose underlying gender ambiguity often creates havoc in his life. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hermaphrodite

In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus or Hermaphroditos (Ancient Greek: ) was the child of Aphrodite and Hermes. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite_(mythology)

An individual or organism possessing both male and female organs, typically including both types of gonads; A person or thing possessing two ...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hermaphrodite

hermaphroditic - of or relating to monoclinous plants
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

a person born with both ovarian and testicular tissues and internal reproductive organs.
www.childrenscentralcal.org/HealthE/P01964/Pages/P01954.aspx

one plant having both male and female flowers: the breeding of hermaphrodites is hard to control.
www.ngoye.com/index.php

A hermaphrodite is an animal which possesses both male and female sex organs in the same individual.
www.genetic-genealogy.co.uk/Toc115570157.html

Self-pollinating plants, such as wine grape vines, containing both male stamens and female ovaries.
www.thatsthespirit.com/en/wine/wine_glossary.asp

An individual that produces both female and male gametes.
biology.usgs.gov/genetics_genomics/glossary_h.html

Animal that posses both sperm and ovaries. Able to release both eggs and sperm into the water for fertilisation. Eggs and sperm are released at different times to prevent self fertilisation. Many molluscs are hermaphroditic. ...
www.aquatext.com/list-h.htm

bisexual, bearing flowers with both androecium and gynoecium in the same flower. adj. hermaphroditic
florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/help/glossary

hermaphrodite is the form that can make both sperm and oocytes and can self-fertilize. C. elegans has both hermaphrodites and males. The male can mate with hermaphrodites to produce cross progeny.
www.wormclassroom.org/Modules/CellLineage/clGlossary.html

considered by many to be an outdated and pejorative term; see “intersex”
www.ftmguide.org/terminology.html

[from Greek Hermes + Aphrodite] The form and typical nature of both the god and goddess in one individual. Androgyne also relates to a dual-sexed human being. ...
www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/ha-hh.htm

24 posted on 09/12/2009 7:00:49 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

try this 19th century term

Amorphodite.....


27 posted on 09/12/2009 7:09:33 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

XY individuals who have lost the SRY (Sex-determining Region Y) gene develop as infertile females. They don’t make significant quantities of testosterone. XX individuals who have picked up an SRY develop as males, but infertile.

There are other XY individuals who have androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) - their bodies make testosterone but do not have the receptors for it. They develop as females, typically tall and slender, small-breasted, infertile, not heavily muscled. Partial AIS results in a devlopment more on male side of the spectrum, possibly what affects Semenya.


54 posted on 09/12/2009 9:52:20 AM PDT by heartwood
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