Fact checkers

submitted by aaarrgh from media.gab.com

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]jet199Instigatrix 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Hermaphrodites don't exist in humans.

Intersex people are all either male or female.

Hermaphrodites have full sets of both genitals, that doesn't happen in humans.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

As of 2010, there have been at least 11 reported cases of fertility in true hermaphrodite humans in the scientific literature,[4] with one case of a person with XY-predominant (96%) mosaic giving birth.[18] However, there have been no documented cases of individuals being fertile as males.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_hermaphroditism

https://www.britannica.com/science/hermaphroditism

I'll clarify that, though I used a term (hermaphrodite) that was acceptable a while ago, today I should actually refer to hermaphroditism and intersex people, rather than actual human hermaphrodites. Still, the latter has existed, and is not a myth:

True hermaphroditism occurs when an ovary and a testis or a gonad with mixed histologic features (ovotestis) is present.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/true-hermaphroditism

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3418019/

Sex is just as complicated as humans are. What seems a rather straightforward concept—with an unequivocal answer to the proverbial delivery room question, “Is it a boy or a girl?”—is in reality full of nuances and complexities, just like any human trait. From a biological standpoint, the appearance of the external genitalia is only one parameter among many, including chromosomal constitution, the sequence of sex-determining genes, gonadal structure, the profile of gonadal hormones, and the internal reproductive structures.

https://www.nature.com/articles/gim200711

[–]Kuasocto 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Sex is just as complicated as humans are. What seems a rather straightforward concept—with an unequivocal answer to the proverbial delivery room question, “Is it a boy or a girl?”—is in reality full of nuances and complexities, just like any human trait. From a biological standpoint, the appearance of the external genitalia is only one parameter among many, including chromosomal constitution, the sequence of sex-determining genes, gonadal structure, the profile of gonadal hormones, and the internal reproductive structures.

This last quote is really misleading as it doesn't mention that in over 98% of cases everything is simple and straightforward. There's less than 2% of people where you'd genuinely have to double check and think a little, but again, that's a tiny fraction of the population, and still, lots of those people ARE men or women, just a bit atypical.

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

First socks says "and why should anyone take you seriously?" as if he sits on a throne of stacks of social credit.

But then you explain that babies born with DSDs are infertile and he comes back with "NO THERE ARE ELEVEN".