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Intersex is a group of conditions where there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes and ovaries). The older term for this condition is hermaphroditism.
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Are there really shemales out there if so why do they have male organs is it Surgery are they Born with genetic diseases?
intersexuality, is the term for those with genital anomalies that many prefer to the term hermaphrodite or she male. This is a condition that does really exist however the slant that is put on it in the p*rn pages is definitely a lot of non sense. Have a read of the link below (Intersexuality) for more balanced information.
What has the author Heather Barbara Ward written?
Heather Barbara Ward has written: 'Intersexuality in mice carrying Searle's Translocation (T(X;16)16H) and sex-reversed (Sxr)'
What causes a hermaphrodite baby to be born?
uh, a few seconds on google is all that you needed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersexuality http://www.jax-inter.net/~help/sexdiff.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_insensitivity_syndrome
Do hermaphrodites really have both genitalias?
It is quite uncommon for them to have essentially two sets of genitalia. Much more common for them to have characteristics of the non-dominant sex. For more information see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersexuality
What is the percentage of hermaphrodite births in humans?
The percentage of hermaphrodite births in humans is estimated to be very rare, occurring in less than 1% of births. Hermaphroditism, or intersexuality, results in individuals having a mix of male and female physical characteristics.
Does Lady Gaga have a guy part?
No. She's bisexual, not transsexual or intersexed. An example of a transsexual would be someone born a man, who underwent surgery to live as a woman, or vice-versa. Intersexuality includes a number of different conditions, including hermaphroditism, aphallia, agenesis, Klinefelter syndrome, and several others. If you've heard a doctor refer to someone with "ambiguous genitalia"... that's a form of intersexuality.
What causes a person to be born a male or a female?
uh, a few seconds on Google is all that you needed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersexuality http://www.jax-inter.net/~help/sexdiff.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_insensitivity_syndrome
If a woman had the same type of cancer as Lance Armstrong what would it be called?
Ovarian cancer could be considered the female equivalent to testicular cancer, as they are essentially homologous organs. (that is, they share a "common ancestry" embyologically, and they are both gonads and endocrine glands) Depending on how one interprets it, it is theoretically possible for a woman to have to have testicular cancer. One suffering from intersexuality "disorders" like complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS) - genetically a male with undescended testes, but with a vagina and outward female appearance - or Klinefelter's syndrome - instead of XY (male) or XX (female) chromosomes, one has XXY - can get testicular cancer.
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What is a hemorphidite?
A hemorphidite is someone born with both male and female sex organs. The correct spelling is hermaphrodite--a combination of Hermes (a male god) and Aphrodite (a female goddess, in Greek mythology). There are very few true hermaphrodites among people; many more people are "intersexuals", with ambiguous genitalia that may be misinterpreted. (It's not easy for a doctor to say "I don't know" to "Is it a boy or a girl?") The ideas of intersexuality and ambiguous genitalia are easier to understand if one realizes that male sex organs are modified female sex organs. The "default" for a human embryo is female, XX. If the chromosome pair is instead XY, the changed genes together with the testosterone generated by the gonads create an "unauthorized field modification", as it were: the gonads go down and become testes instead of ovaries; the outer labia seal together to form the scrotum; the inner labia seal and grow to become the penile shaft, and a glans is a clit on steroids. These facts account for two things: the "seam" many men have on the underside of their penis and/or vertically through their scrotum (it really is a seam, where what would normally become the labia fused together), and why men have nipples. If something interrupts this modification process, or there is some other disruption in fetal growth and development, the result can be ambiguous genitalia. Sometimes the anatomy is such that the infant could "go either way"; in such cases, a simple DNA test will reveal whether the child is XX or XY (or XXY or XYY, each of which carries with it other problems). It is common for such children to be assigned their genetic sex and appropriate plastic surgery to be performed. Other times the child clearly looks like one sex but turns out, perhaps at puberty, to be the other. The novel "Middlesex" discusses one such class of children, who appear to be female but at puberty become male. In other cases, the genitalia appear to be either a mishmash or so severely malformed that exactly what is what is not clear. It used to be that such children were routinely turned into sterile females, as the surgery to do so was relatively straightforward. The book "As Nature Made Him" describes the tragic "natural experiment" that revealed why this is a bad idea. True hermphroditism is present in, for instance, snails, who each carry a full set of both male and female organs and who when mating each fertilize the other's eggs.
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What is the difference between 'text' and 'discourse'?
Text refers to written or spoken language in a specific form, such as a book, article, or speech. Discourse, on the other hand, encompasses not only the text itself but also the social context, interactions, and implications that surround it. Discourse considers how language is used to convey meaning within a particular cultural or social setting.
