Hermaphadites

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It seems as though society today only excepts male and female. Hermaphadites, pseudohermaphrodites, and pseudohermaphrodites are all unaccepted. Today’s society doesn’t accept anything that isn’t the ‘norm’. People can not help how they are born, before you are born you do not have the choice of what sex you will be, or in this case how many sexes you will contain.
The concept of intersexuality is rooted in the very ideas of male and female. In the ideal world, human beings are divided into two kinds. Males have an X and a Y chromosome, testes, a penis and all of the appropriate internal organs for delivering urine and semen to the outside world. They also have well-known secondary sexual characteristics, including a muscular build and facial hair. Women, on the other hand, have two X chromosomes, ovaries, all of the internal organs to transport urine and ova to the outside world, a system to support pregnancy and fetal development, as well as a variety of recognizable secondary sexual characteristics.
The term hermaphrodites, comes from the Greek name Hermes, known as the messenger of the gods, the patron of music, the controller of dreams, and the protector of livestock. Aphrodite, is the goddess of sexual love and beauty. These two gods parented Hermaphrodites, whom at the age of fifteen became half-male and half-female. A hermaphrodite is an individual which has the attributes of both male and female, or which unites in itself the two sexes. 55% of hermaphrodites are more masculine then feminine.
Intersex is all three major subgroups with some mixture of male and female organs. Pseudohermaphodites also known as merms have testes and some aspects of the female genitalia but no ovaries. These people who can not help how they are born aren’t excepted into today’s society due to gender difference, yet- other people who pay to be different from what they were born with are. Also, pseudohermaphrodites also known as f...