Hermaphrodite,
Hermaphroditos, Hermaphroditus, Hermes, Hermetic,
Hermetical, Hermit (Aka: Androgynous / Half
and half)
Accepted
definition: A person born with both male and female
sex organs. This is a vague, confusing and inaccurate
definition. There are 3 labels of Hermaphrodites:
True, Male pseudo and Female Pseudo. All are equally
genuine. The term "hermaphrodite" is derived
from the ancient Greek myth of Hermaphroditus, son
of Hermes and Aphrodite. While bathing, he became
united in a single body with a nymph.
Protandry: When the organism starts as a male, and
changes sex to a female later in life. Example:
The seabasses (Family Serranidae).
These are a highly sought food fish complex made
up of primarily groupers. Since even a small male
can produce more than enough sperm
to fertilize a huge number of eggs, while a
female's egg output increases greatly with an
increase in size, this strategy makes sense for
an organism (fishes in general) where over 99%
of the eggs laid will not result in a fish that
reaches sexual maturity. It has been shown that
fishing pressure actually is causing a change
in when the switch from male to female occurs,
since fishermen naturally prefer to catch the
larger fishes. The populations are generally changing
sex at a smaller size, due to natural selection.
Protogyny: When the organism starts as a female,
and changes sex to a male later in life. Example:
Wrasses (Family Labridae)
are reef fishes that tend to have three distinct
sexual types. Small females, immature males and
supermales. The small females and the immature
males have identical colorations. The supermale
is usually brightly colored, and there is only
one in a given area of the reef. This supermale
dominates the other wrasses of the species, having
the choice of females to mate with. When the supermale
dies, the largest wrasse in the area, male or
female, becomes the new supermale.
'Simultaneous
hermaphrodite:
The organism has both male and female sexual organs
at the same time as an adult. Usually, self-fertilization
does not occur. Also called synchronous
hermaphrodites.'
Examples: Earthworms. Hamlets (Family
Haemulidae) are a type of fish that are curious
for many reasons, including that they seem to be
evolving into different species quite rapidly. Unlike
other fishes, hamlets seem quite at ease mating
in front of divers, allowing observations in the
wild to occur readily. They do not practice self
fertilization, but when they find a mate, the pair
takes turns between which one acts as the male,
and which acts as the female, through multiple matings,
usually over several nights --- wikipedia
TRUE
A person born with both ovary and testicular tissue,
this could be 2 seperate gonads ( one of each) or
a combination of both in one (an ovotestes). The
genitalia can vary from completely male or female,
to a combination of both or even ambiguous looking.
The chromosome (karotype) compliment can be XX (female),
XY (male), XX/XY (mosiac) or even XO (extremely
rare). Those XX with female genitalia are raised
female ( some have even given birth). Those XY with
male genitalia are raised male ( a few have fathered
children). The children born XX/XY or XO (with genitalia
male or female are raised in the sex they look most
like) ,Those born with ambiguous genitalia have
many medical tests for the doctors to determine
which sex they should be assigned. Doctors then
recommend early surgery to make the child look physically
like the sex assigned to them.
CAUSES
The causes are not known, The medical community
does know this is a very rare condition but do not
have accurate figures to how many people have this
condition (depending on the literature between 350-450
known cases).
FEMALE PSEUDO
A person born XX with normal female internal organs
but with "masculanized" genitalia. They
can appear more male then female or a combination
of each.
CAUSES
The most common is Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
(CAH) it occurs approximately 1:14,000 births.This
is when the adrenal glands overproduce testosterone.
It also has been recorded that some persons with
this disorder had been exposed to progesterone-like
drugs before they were born.
MALE PSEUDO
A person born XY with testes (usually in the abdominal
cavity). The external genitalia are usually female
but can be ambiguous.
(An
intersexual is a person with genitalia of indeterminate sex,
or which combine features of both sexes. Intersexuals
include both "true hermaphrodites", those with equally
male and female genitals, and "pseudo-hermaphrodites",
those with genitals which are closer to one sex
or the other, while combining features of both;
but many dislike these terms as being overly medical.
It is estimated [1] that perhaps 1.7 percent of
live births are actually intersexual. -wikipedia)
CAUSES
The most common cause is Androgen Insensitivity
Syndrome (AIS). This is when the body doesn't
respond to the androgen being produced. There
are different variations: Complete (CAIS) , and
Partial (PAIS). This condition has a variety of
names and occurance rates..
HEMOPHRODITES IN ANIMALS
By
Bijal P. Trivedi
National Geographic Today
April 16, 2002
Atrazine,
a top selling weed killer in the United States and
the world, has been found to dramatically affect
the sexual development of male frogs, turning them
into hermaphrodites -creatures with both male and
female organs- at concentrations 30 times lower
than those deemed safe by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
"What struck us as unbelievable was that atrazine
could cause such dramatic effects at such low levels,"
says Tyrone Hayes, an associate professor of integrative
biology at the University of California, Berkeley,
who led the frog study.
"If
you take five grains of salt, divide this weight
by five thousand, that is the amount of atrazine
that causes these abnormalities," added Hayes.
The
EPA has set the limit for atrazine contamination
for drinking water at 3 parts per billion (ppb).
Hayes' and his colleagues found that concentrations
of 0.1 ppb caused abnormalities.
The
scientists exposed tadpoles of the African clawed
frog, a popular research organism, to atrazine at
concentrations as low as 0.1 ppb. When the tadpoles
reached adulthood, Hayes found that between 16 and
20 percent had abnormal reproductive systems.
"Some
had three ovaries and three testes, some had ovaries
on one side and testes on the other, one animal
even had six testes," says Hayes. The male
voice box also shrunk, resembling the female version.
And, when males were exposed to levels as high as
25 ppb of atrazine, the frogs showed a ten-fold
decrease in testosterone levels.
Based
on work done in other laboratories, Hayes' team
suspects that atrazine feminizes the frogs by increasing
production of an enzyme called aromatase, which
converts testosterone to estrogen.
These
results are published in the April 16 issue of Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences.
All
kinds of stress induce plants to become hermaphrodites.
These include irregular light cycle, water stress,
and some chemicals. Hermaphroditism is also a genetic
trait that indicates even without stress. --- Ed
Rosenthal
First 'test tube hermaphrodite' reported
January
18, 1998
Web posted at: 10:59 a.m. EDT (1059 GMT)
ATLANTA (CNN) -- The odds of a human being
naturally having both male and female sexual characteristics
are slim, both in the general population and for
so-called "test tube babies" conceived
through in vitro fertilization. In fact, in 20 years
of in vitro fertilization, it has never happened
-- until now.
In the latest issue of the New England Journal
of Medicine, Scottish researchers reported the first
known case of a hermaphrodite found in an in vitro
fertilization.
The researchers say couples using the process
should be warned of this possible outcome, though
it is unlikely to happen to them.
More than 100,000 babies have been born
through IVF since Louise Brown, the world's first
test tube baby, was born in 1978.
The hermaphrodite case, the only one of
those thousands to develop this irregularity during
conception, arose due to an error in the fertilization.
During the IVF process, a male embryo, with an x
and y chromosome, and a female embryo, with two
x chromosomes, fused.
"In combination, the genetics or chromosomes
were mixed to become one fetus," explained
Dr. Dorothy Mitchell-Leef, a reproductive biology
associate, who says the true hermaphrodite condition
is found in nature "maybe one in every 25,000
deliveries."
The condition is not life-threatening. It
can be surgically corrected
Is
hermaphrodite a proof of evolution?
Hermaphrodites do not have any new information,
but in humans are the result of an abnormality in
embryonic development. Human embryos are sexually
dimorphic at first (i.e. contain characteristics
of both sexes), because they all have basically
the same genetic information, and this information
is expressed as efficiently as possible as the embryo
develops. This is design economy. For example, in
all human embryos, at first both the müllerian
duct system (female) and the wolffian duct system
(male) develop, because both sexes have the genetic
information for these structures. Incidentally,
this refutes the urban myth that human embryos 'start
off female'. The subsequent differences are the
result of designed chemical signals that control
the expression of the information. E.g., a gene
set usually found on the Y chromosome controls the
levels of testosterone and dihydroxytestosterone
(DHT) secretion. Above a certain level, these hormones
suppress the development of the müllerian duct
system and promote the wolffian duct system, so
the embryo takes on masculine characteristics. Below
a certain hormone level, the opposite happens, and
the embryo takes on female characteristics. But
if for some reason the genetic information for one
sex or the other is not switched off, then a hermaphrodite
results. This hasn't the slightest thing to do with
evolution from goo to you via the zoo.
In short, the hermaphroditic state arises
because of a defect in development. Such defects
happen in our fallen world. It does not involve
any new genetic information, so it has nothing to
do with Evolution. A lesson is: if readers are faced
with a 'proof' of evolution, just ask whether any
new genetic information arises, i.e. whether it
really has anything to do with real molecules to
man evolution, and how this 'proof' refutes the
Biblical creation framework. -((Dr) Jonathan Sarfati
Research scientist, author and editorial consultant
AiG (Australia))
CONCLUSION:
I
find it kind of strange with all the advance technologies
that we posses that we can't seem to find to cause
of hermaphrodites existence. Yet in plants and other
animals it is so easy. Plus, when it occurred in
the test tube humans we could account for it. I
don't buy it.
They
are two train of thought:
One, from the above statements from leading
sources, a chemical imbalance had been found in
the plant/animal cases. Therefore, it could be a
chemical 'mis-up' in our environment, through fertilizers,
processed food etc and even tracing back to the
dawn of man since we begun to progress. Progression
usually has drawbacks too. Continue eating those
microwave dinner and see if you don't develop some
abnormalities. And it doesn't take much progression
too; remember what Hayes said about the animals,
"If you take five grains of salt, divide this
weight by five thousand, that is the amount of atrazine
that causes these abnormalities." Ed Rosenthal
also said, 'All kinds of stress induce plants to
become hermaphrodites. These include irregular light
cycle, water stress, and some chemicals. Hermaphroditism
is also a genetic trait that indicates even without
stress.' Many of these spin offs of progression
could be the factor as seen in the plants and animals;
and though the number of hermaphrodites reported
are low, I believe they are many more who are afraid
to let it known.
Two, which is the side I'm more leaning to
for present times, it could be a deliberate action
to mock God, discredit his word, advocate homosexuality
and help provide the catalyst for the new age (do
what thou will.). When I was speaking to someone
in a cyber group on transgendering after she was
cornered, see exclaimed, 'what about hermaphrodites,
God made mistake [haha, because that's not in his
book - bible].' From this I could see the underline
agenda satan's plot. Similar to when an incurable
STD's was deliberately injected into black males
in Los Angeles; which Bill Clinton, president at
the time, openly apologized. No one would have known
it was deliberate if it wasn't exposed. They would
have thought the 'good-for-nothing' black males
are so promiscuousand irresponsible with their sexuality.
Do
you know what they will be able to do because of
the completion of the genetic mapping? You can literally
have a custom made baby the natural way. Choose
the color of the hair, skin etc and more other remarkable
things. Imagine an Afro-American baby born with
green or purple hair. We will see what is called
in X-men, mutants, as scientists continue to play
God. One could then put these and the current cases
hermaphrodites under the category, "man shall
do great things".
Therefore,
hermaphrodites could be results of our ever advancing
chemical achievements and/or the deviant scientific
minds that couldn't resist to experiment. These
abnormalities are not rare, scientist have being
doing these thing in secret for years. I could show
you pictures of many abnormalies in the world and
many are due to scientific involvement and the rest
to demonic intervention; things
you wouldn't begin to believe.
I
could go on with this, but since the number of hermaphrodites
are growing, and they're been notice, I think it
wise not to uncover other truths. They are human
beings too and my suggestion to any is that you
choose the sex that you are more incline to, have
a corrective surgery to that end, then live your
normal life. The stances that God has on any human
being are the same stance he has for hermaphrodites.
Homosexuality is still homosexuality, transgendering
is still transgendering, fornication is still fornication
and sin is sin across the boards; once you have
the capacity to think and reason (intelligence).
After you've made the decision to be a man/woman
continue in that path, though many change later,
reason being that choice was made for them at birth
or as a child.
But
if this choice was made by you given all factors
involved, then stick with it and don't plan to do
anything God does approve of. It's kind of a complex
situation. But they're still humans and should still
be born again. God loves them and he still cares
for them and wants them to be save as well. Sex
doesn't really matter in the new kingdom (heaven)
for the scripture teaches us that in this new kingdom
there is neither male nor female. Therefore, though
you might be abnormal physically, your soul is not
and it must be accounted for. God is more concern
with your heart and that it be inclined to him.
If you're a hermaphrodite, don't follow 'some' who
go about being transvestives, posing for porn movies
or any such thing. Don't use your situation to justify
sinning. For instance, you choose to be a man by
all factors involved, but later on you decide you
want to sleep with a man and have anal sex. To support
this you would use the 'herms card' to justify it
because you have a femining side. No! That's sin
and the consequences you will reap [the same can
be said about cross dressing or unwed sexual activities].
If I felt like robbing the national bank, being
that my father was an ardent thief, do I use genetics
to justify 'wiping out' the national reserve? Saying,
"I have a theifing genetic make up so it's
okay, besides I'm destitute and an ex-vietnam soldier."
No! I'll be punished by God and man.
If you're a hermaphrodite, God loves you, he wants
you to be saved and like any human being, anyone
who is not shall inherit an unhappy eternity.
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