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(obligatory comment regarding the fact that gender isn't necessarily a dichotomy) How about both (hermaphrodites) or neither?
by niggler 14y ago
(obligatory comment regarding the fact that gender isn't necessarily a dichotomy) How about both (hermaphrodites) or neither?
- publicfig 14y agoJust a note, "hermaphrodite" is a wildly inaccurate term to define those with an indeterminate sex within the dichotomy of male/female and can be quite offensive as well, especially when used outside of specific cases (none of which I've ever heard to be identified accurately as strictly hermaphroditic)
- niggler 14y agoHermaphroditism is incredibly rare, but there are recorded cases (including cases of births involving hermaphrodites: according to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394621 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394621 there were 11 reported cases of fertility in true hermaphrodites)
- ctdonath 14y agoThe POCT-1A data protocol includes six possible values for "gender".
- niggler 14y agomy duckduckgo-fu is failing me: could you enumerate the possible values?
- itsybitsycoder 14y ago"Hermaphrodite" isn't a gender.