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"On the Word Hermaphrodite
The word "hermaphrodite" is a stigmatizing and misleading word.
There is growing momentum to eliminate the word "hermaphrodite"
from medical literature and to use the word "intersex" in its
place. While some intersex people do reclaim the word "hermaphrodite"
with pride to reference themselves (like words such as "dyke"
and "queer" have been reclaimed by LGBT people), it should be
generally avoided except under specific circumstances.
Victorian doctors believed that the gonads were the seat of "true
sex," and thus created a system of nomenclature -- in the absence of
any knowledge of genetics, endocrinology, or embryology -- which categorized
people as "male pseudohermaphrodite," "female pseudohermaphrodite,"
or "true hermaphrodite." It's time to eliminate this quaint Victorianism
from modern medical practice.
The word "hermaphrodite" implies that a person is born with
two sets of genitals -- one male and one female -- and this is something
that cannot occur.
The qualifiers "male" and "female," because they
are based only upon the gonadal histology, frequently contradict the sex
of assignment, and thus are very misleading and disturbing for parents and
patients.
The qualifiers "pseudo" and "true" are even more
harmful, because they imply a sort of authenticity, or lack of same, that
carry powerful emotional baggage"
This is taken directly from ISNA the intersex society of North America
I noticed a lot of people tagging "hermaphrodite" in the tags, and I just wanted to let people know that, technically speaking, having female & male parts is called being intersex. it is a thing that happens in real life (although it hardly involves magic drugs and the parts are generally a lot less... cleanly separated then they are here) and the term "hermaphrodite" is actually very insulting. Yes I know this is literally just hot, dumb porn but hey, free info.