Hermaphrodites are a type of people who are not often mentioned in daily life. They are naturally different from ordinary men and women. Many people do not understand them and often look at them strangely. In fact, this is a very wrong practice. We should have more understanding of hermaphrodites. Hermaphrodites refer to humans who have both male and female characteristics, and this group of people is not a minority. 1 In human society, there are some individuals who are neither like men nor like women. He is said to be a man, but he has feminine characteristics; she is said to be like a woman, but in fact she has masculine characteristics. In medicine, people who have both male and female characteristics are called "hermaphrodites". There are many people with hermaphroditic sexual characteristics. A survey in the United States shows that about 2,600 hermaphrodites are born in the United States every year. Due to the harsh social reality that only recognizes the two genders of either female or male, they will undergo surgery shortly after birth. An average of 5 such operations are performed every day in the United States in order to classify them into the socially recognized gender of either male or female. People with "hermaphroditism" can be divided into "true hermaphroditism" and "pseudohermaphroditism". The distinction between true and false is based on the main sex glands in the body. 2 People with "true hermaphroditism" have both male testicles and female ovaries in the same person. Both the ovaries and testicles in the body can have endocrine functions, that is, there are both estrogen and androgen in the body, but one of the hormones is usually dominant. The external genitalia are often of ambiguous sex and may appear female or male, while the development of secondary sexual characteristics often depends on the dominant hormone. If estrogen is dominant in the body, secondary sexual characteristics tend to be female. If androgens are dominant, secondary sexual characteristics tend to be male. This type of person has a smaller penis above the urethra on the vulva, and two separate labia majora below. There is a small opening between the two labia majora that seems to be the vaginal opening, but is actually the place for urination. 3 This type of true hermaphrodite will have both male and female characteristics, with full breasts, an erect penis, sometimes nocturnal emission, and no beard. If you are a woman, your vagina is shallow and small, and your uterus is very small, so you are infertile. However, there have also been reports of people with fertility problems. The difference between "pseudohermaphroditism" and "true hermaphroditism" is that in this type of person, there is actually only one type of gonad in the human body, either the male gonad or the female gonad. For those with male gonads, their external genitalia have female characteristics in appearance; for those with female gonads, their external genitalia have male characteristics in appearance. As a result, there are pseudohermaphroditic people who look like females but are actually males, or look like males but are actually females. |
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