Quote Originally Posted by walrus View Post
@Andre while the church does not have specific teaching on hermaphrodite, it has been addressed. It is said the person should make a decision with medical and therapeutic help to best understand what sex they feel they belong to. They should also be medically evaluated to see which sexual organ functions properly. Are they capable of pregnancy etc. So no, you used your question to puzzle, for lack of a better word, some who believe, but the answer seems quite rational. I did find info that hermaphrodite are or have been stoned in Iran. Along with gays, although I hear that is not as frequent as it once was.
You missed the whole point and you meant to do so.

It was aimed at homophobic Christians who use the past old testament laws to attack and judge people in the New testament times. People who they believe God made that way.

You ignored the separate questions there and went for a false generalization to cover the fact you have no real answers.

They are not a generalization you attempted to scan it all with, they link to LGBT people directly and to the question of how a supposedly sane person can judge what they claim God has made or determine for God who those people are allowed to love.


"Hermaphrodite" properly refers to animals that have a functioning set of both male and female organs so that they may reproduce with or without a mate. "Pseudo-hermaphrodite" refers to animals that have the capacity to function as both males and female at various times in their lives depending on circumstance.

Snails and worms are examples of hermaphrodites and some fish such as "Groupers" are examples of pseudo-hermaphrodites. There are no human hermaphrodites or pseudo-hermaphrodites known to science. Natural variation and scientific discoveries may change this and our consideration of human rights might need to be revised in that event.

Also;

Hermaphrodite means has both working genitalia and can self produce off spring.

In 1901 Goldschmidt's objective was to find a word to describe differences in sex biology where both male and female features seemed to be present at the same time but not in an hermaphroditic way. His terminology also includes features that might be described as not quite male and not quite female and others that seem to be neither male nor female. Under this nomenclature an animal that has no sex characteristics at all would be intersex.

The accepted term is now inter sex due to the vast array of physical differences people are born with both externally and internally.

NV Semin has no right to judge any of them. That is who I was addressing.