I don't know about y'all, but our discussion and discoveries in class the other day about hermaphrodites was extremely interesting and intriguing to me. From the reactions of everyone else, I took it that most of us were being introduced to something very new. I mean, I knew what a hermaphrodite was and knew that they actually existed, however I did NOT know that about 4% of live births can be classified as hermaphrodites! Obviously, this happens way more often than we think.
Of course, there is the moral issue of what to do if you are a parent or physician who delivers a child who possesses both male and female genitalia. Then one step close to our potential situations: What do we do when a parent has decided to leave a hermaphrodite as they were born, they are in our class, and the teacher is very aware of it? I'm thinking more at an elementary level...simply, what do you do when it's time for a bathroom break? Do you let the child decide where to go?
I was just wondering what everyone's thoughts were on any of the questions mentioned above.
Also, I did a little google search on this. As expected...there are not many pictures of this. haha However, I did find an interesting story of how this affected one individual and his story. It can be found at
http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/BornHermaphrodite/ if you're interested.