Intersex is a group of conditions in which there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes and ovaries). The older term for this condition is hermaphroditism.
Intersex people were categorized as either having "true hermaphroditism", "female pseudohermaphroditism", or "male pseudohermaphroditism". These terms are no longer used, and terms including the word "hermaphrodite" are considered to be misleading, stigmatizing, and scientifically specious in reference to humans.
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.
The term intersexuality was coined by Richard Goldschmidt in the 1917 paper Intersexuality and the endocrine aspect of sex. The first suggestion to replace the term 'hermaphrodite' with 'intersex' came from British specialist Cawadias in the 1940s. This suggestion was taken up by specialists in the UK during the 1960s.
Abstract. True hermaphroditism is a rare form of intersex anomaly where both male and female gonads are present. True hermaphrodites diagnosed in the past have been preferentially reared as males.
In the literature, pregnancy cases that developed through self-fertilization were not reported in humans. However, autofertilization was detected in mammalian hermaphrodites such as domestic rabbit.
Background: There are 11 reported cases of pregnancy in true hermaphrodites, but none with advanced genetic testing. All known fetuses have been male. Case: A true hermaphrodite with a spontaneous pregnancy prenatally known to have a remaining portion of a right ovotestis, delivered a male neonate.
Being intersex is also more common than most people realize. It's hard to know exactly how many people are intersex, but estimates suggest that about 1-2 in 100 people born in the U.S. are intersex. There are many different ways someone can be intersex.
Molecules on the sperm and eggs of hermaphroditic organisms ensures that they mate with others.
True hermaphroditism is a rare cause of intersexuality in which both ovarian and testicular tissue is present in the same individual. We present the clinical findings, karyotype, gonadal histology and management of eight patients with true hermaphroditism.
There are extremely rare cases of fertility in "truly hermaphroditic" humans. In 1994 a study on 283 cases found 21 pregnancies from 10 true hermaphrodites, while one allegedly fathered a child.
True hermaphroditism is a rare intersex condition in which an individual has both testicular and ovarian tissue. The largest numbers of cases have been reported from Africa and Europe.
Intersex is a group of conditions in which there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes and ovaries). The older term for this condition is hermaphroditism.
The androgyne (from the Greek andros, "man," and gune, "woman") is a creature that is half male and half female.
Any child—intersex or not—may decide later in life that she or he was given the wrong gender assignment; but children with certain intersex conditions have significantly higher rates of gender transition than the general population, with or without treatment.
Intersex people are not “in-between” nor do they have intermediate gametes. Intersex humans are conceived to be either male or female, to produce male gametes or female gametes.
If a hermaphrodite self-fertilizes, will the offspring be identical to the parent? Explain. No, when a hermaphrodite self-fertilizes, it will not produce offspring identical to the parent. This diversity is because both the gametes are involved in fertilization and cause differences in the genes.
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, discovered that these so called hermaphrodites have shorter lifespans, with females frequently living over twice as long as closely related hermaphrodites.
hermaphroditism, the condition of having both male and female reproductive organs.
Abstract. True hermaphroditism, the rarest form of intersex, is usually diagnosed during the newborn period in the course of evaluating ambiguous genitalia.
All human individuals—whether they have an XX, an XY, or an atypical sex chromosome combination—begin development from the same starting point. During early development the gonads of the fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.
There have been 12 modern Olympic athletes widely known to have an intersex (disorders of sex development) condition. The 1932 Summer Olympics was the first instance of an athlete now known to be intersex competing, also winning a medal.
The gonads in a true hermaphrodite are asymmetrical having both ovarian and testicular differentiation on either side separately or combined as an ovotestis. In an ovotestis, the testis is always central and ovary polar in location [1].
Hermaphrodites self-reproduce through internal self-fertilization with their own sperm and can outcross with males.
Intersex variations come in many different types and are experienced in many different ways. Some common types are: congenital adrenal hyperplasia, Klinefelter syndrome, hypospadias, and androgen insensitivity syndrome.