[andysandmikesmom]

I think what you say here, about birth-defects, is important......there are, everyday, children born, and the doctors are unsure as to what gender they actually are...because at birth its not clear....and as the child growns over months, its still not clear...often the doctors will tell the parents that it is in the best interest of the child to assign it a gender and stick with it....

The doctors will usually tell the parents what they believe would be the best for a particular child...depending on the birth deformities...there have been a few documentaries done about these children, tho not many, I must admit...

Some of these children grew up, and altho they were assigned a gender while still very young, and had corrective surgeries to complete that assignment, the child, once grown felt that he/she was the wrong gender..some have even had corrective surgery to become the other gender...

I am not sure how often this happens, but it does happen...trying to believe that it does not happen, is just burying ones head in the sand...

I dont buy into this line about God not making mistakes, and that all babies are born perfect...good grief, not every baby is born perfect...many are born with all sorts of birth defects, some minor, some major and life threatening...

I am not taking any side one way or another...just pointing out, that sometimes babies are indeed born so badly deformed that even the doctors dont know if to say, :"Its a a boy", or "Its a a girl"...

[Houmatt]

I think what you say here, about birth-defects, is important......there are, everyday, children born, and the doctors are unsure as to what gender they actually are...because at birth its not clear....

I don't buy into this line about God not making mistakes

But it is clear you have no idea what you are talking about. Hermaphroditism is extremely rare, and at least in the latter case, the gender that physically manifests is the one that child is.