Male Or Female?

[Aquaplant]

Originally Posted by rasomaso

Ok, I just hate when I don't know if I'm talking to a man or a woman, so I'm making this thread to aviod confusion!

Originally Posted by Ateyo leSyaksyuk

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Perhaps this poll was simply meant to ask the question?
How do you want to be addressed. as male or female?
I don't think the original post intended to open such a can of worms!

Originally Posted by Moco Loco

Well then it shouldn't have had "a little bit of both". It probably would've been best as two separate answers, since I would've gladly also picked Female

All aboard the fail poll.

Originally Posted by taylorcraftbc65

Well I hate to say it, but you are mistaken. I was born a Hermaphrodite in 1950, when parents were given the power to choose the childs identity. "Daddy" was a Navy Carrier Pilot, and I was the first born child, so he chose "Male". Too bad he guessed WRONG, that is NOT what my genes say.
I did not know anything about my genetic coding till I was out of the Army, and 29 years old. I KNEW from the time that I was FOUR that I was a FEMALE, I didn't care WHAT my "plumbing" said, and at that time, I did NOT know that the scar in my Peritoneal area was not normal for a "Male"...
So I guess you can say that, at birth, I was a whole lot more than a "little" of both.

You have the XX chromosomes, but your "plumbing" was simply a biological defect. The rest of it worked correctly, and your biology did feminize your brain as was instructed by your genes. Suffice to say you were never a little bit of both, because it is impossible, in the same way it is impossible to be full and empty at the same time, because the body doesn't have multiple slots for multiple genders, because our species does not function that way. It's possible to be born female in a male body and the other way around, and while one may have the brain of a female and the "plumbing" of male, one still can't be both in the real sense of the word.

I think the whole sex/gender thing is really something that irritates my sense of order, rationality and semantics a bit too much.