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[–]Tea_Or_Coffee[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

There are intersex people with underdeveloped uteruses, and penises. How is that not something wrong with their genitals?

[–]MarkTwainiac 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

You are talking about males with Persistent Mullerian Duct Syndrome. There is nothing wrong with the genitals of males with PMDS. Please stop spreading lies.

Persistent Müllerian duct syndrome is a disorder of sexual development that affects males. Males with this disorder have normal male reproductive organs, though they also have a uterus and fallopian tubes, which are female reproductive organs. The uterus and fallopian tubes are derived from a structure called the Müllerian duct during development of the fetus. The Müllerian duct usually breaks down during early development in males, but it is retained in those with persistent Müllerian duct syndrome.

Affected individuals have the normal chromosomes of a male (46,XY) and normal external male genitalia.

https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/congenital-adrenal-hyperplasia/

[–]Tea_Or_Coffee[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

They have underdeveloped female genitalia such as uterus, etc, why wouldn't that be considered as something wrong with their genitals? Is it right for a male to have female genitalia such as a uterus? I fail to understand why you don't want them to be called a disorder, do you think it's normal for a female to have underdeveloped testes, or for a male to have underdeveloped female genitalia and there's nothing wrong with those cases?

[–]MarkTwainiac 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

They have underdeveloped female genitalia such as uterus, etc, why wouldn't that be considered as something wrong with their genitals? Is it right for a male to have female genitalia such as a uterus? I fail to understand why you don't want them to be called a disorder, do you think it's normal for a female to have underdeveloped testes, or for a male to have underdeveloped female genitalia and there's nothing wrong with those cases?

Most people use the term genitals consistent with the way Oxford dictionary defines the word:

a person or animal's external organs of reproduction

And as Merriam-Webster does:

the sexual or reproductive organs located on the outside of the body

And as Cambridge dicitonary does

the outer sexual organs, especially the penis or vulva

The uterus is not on the outside of the body. Most women do not think of, or call, our uteri - or our Fallopian tubes, ovaries - genitals. Most women who use the anatomically correct terms also don't call our vaginas genitals, either. Most of us consider the female genitals to be the vulva - labia, clitoris, urethra and vaginal opening.

Again, males with PMDS do not have anything wrong with their male genitals. They have vestiges of organs from the internal female reproductive tract coz of a DSD, but their DSD does not affect the function of their male genitals.

Is it right for a male to have female genitalia such as a uterus?

I don't see where "right" comes into is. Some people are born with extra toes or fingers, or with body parts missing, or with body parts that look deformed and/or don't function properly. But that's not an matter of morality.

do you think it's normal for a female to have underdeveloped testes

No, it's not normal for females to have any kind of testes. But which specific condition are you referring to here? Meaning, what is the name? I can't tell from the way you are describing it. I think you are mixing up different conditions and talking about one that doesn't actually exist.

The views you are expressing make me really hope you don't have children.

[–]Tea_Or_Coffee[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If vagina, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries are not genitals, then what are they? And in intersex cases where males have uteruses, fallopian tubes, ovaries, vaginas, etc, does it mean uterus, vagina, fallopian tubes, ovaries, etc are not female organs but organs that both male and female can have?

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If vagina, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries are not genitals, then what are they?

They're reproductive organs. Just as female breasts are. Not every female reproductive organ, or part of the female reproductive tract, is called genitals. Thinking they are is something only guys tend to do.

And in intersex cases where males have uteruses, fallopian tubes, ovaries, vaginas, etc, does it mean uterus, vagina, fallopian tubes, ovaries,

You are just making stuff up now - and out of whole cloth too. Males with PMDS have vestiges of uteri and Fallopian tubes, but they do not vaginas and ovaries. Some very few males with rare DSDs have vestigal ovotesticular tissue. No male human has ovaries or a vagina.

[–]Tea_Or_Coffee[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Since males with Persistent Müllerian duct syndrome have uterus and fallopian tubes, does that mean uterus and fallopian tubes are not female organs, but organs that both males and females have?

[–]MarkTwainiac 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, it means that the person's development went slightly awry at an early point in utero. Your questions show that you have no idea what human zygotes/embryos/fetuses develop go through in utero, and no idea about biology and evolution more generally.