Background: There are 11 reported cases of pregnancy in
If an intersex person has a uterus, they may be able to carry a pregnancy. If they have ovaries or ovotestes, that tissue could be used for reproduction in some cases. Some intersex people do have ovaries, a uterus, and a vagina, and could get pregnant by contact with sperm.
There are extremely rare cases of fertility in "truly hermaphroditic" humans. In 1994 a study on 283 cases found 21 pregnancies from 10 true hermaphrodites, while one allegedly fathered a child.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: True hermaphroditism is defined as the presence of both male and female gonadal tissue in the same individual. Pregnancy in true hermaphrodites is rare. There are ten previously reported cases of pregnancy in true hermaphrodites with no reports on antenatal management.
Intersex is a term used when someone is born with sex characteristics that don't fit the usual definition of girl or boy. An intersex child might have internal sex organs, external genitalia, chromosomes, or other biological markers that differ from typical males or females.
The person must have both ovarian and testicular tissue. This may be in the same gonad (an ovotestis), or the person might have 1 ovary and 1 testis. The person may have XX chromosomes, XY chromosomes, or both. The external genitals may be ambiguous or may appear to be female or male.
In the 21st century, feminizing surgery to support reassignment of XY infants with non-ambiguous micropenis has been largely discontinued, and surgical reassignment of XY infants with exstrophy or other significant variations or injuries is diminishing. See history of intersex surgery.
Sex assignment at birth usually aligns with a child's anatomical sex and phenotype. The number of births with ambiguous genitals is in the range of 1:4500–1:2000 (0.02%–0.05%). Other conditions involve atypical chromosomes, gonads, or hormones.
If you don't have noticeable genital changes at birth, it's possible not to know that you're intersex. Later in life, you may experience: No onset of puberty (for people assigned AFAB or AMAB) or amenorrhea (no menstruation in someone was AFAB).
Hermaphrodites can reproduce asexually through self-fertilization. The progeny generated through asexual reproduction in a hermaphrodite is genetically identical to the parent species. Plants and animals both can be hermaphrodites.
Intersex variations are not abnormal and should not be seen as 'birth defects'; they are natural biological variations and occur in up to 1.7 per cent of all births. Most people with intersex variations are not born with atypical genitalia, however this is common for certain intersex variations.
It is estimated that up to 1.7 percent of the population has an intersex trait and that approximately 0.5 percent of people have clinically identifiable sexual or reproductive variations.
Some people are actually born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't fit traditional sex binaries of male and female. This is generally called 'intersex', and intersex people too may have periods.
Though spontaneous parthenogenesis appears to be rare, it does provide some benefits to the female who can achieve it. In some cases, it can allow females to generate their own mating partners. The sex of parthenogenetic offspring is determined by the same method sex is determined in the species itself.
Hermaphroditism is usually identified by gonad morphology; there are three main groups or categories. One is synchronous hermaphrodites, in which mature testicular and ovarian tissues are present at the same time, and both produce sperm and ova, respectively.
Any child—intersex or not—may decide later in life that she or he was given the wrong gender assignment; but children with certain intersex conditions have significantly higher rates of gender transition than the general population, with or without treatment.
Intersex variation is a natural biological event that is likely to happen in about 17 in every 1,000 live births (1.7%). The is about the same as the number of people with red hair. The most common intersex variations are due to differences in chromosomes, such as Klinefelter syndrome and Turner syndrome.
“It is quite acceptable to live with the gender assigned at birth and even possibly scribed into the flesh by surgery. God would not see this as a sin. The situation in which the intersex person finds himself or herself when coming to know Jesus as Lord is a situation in which that person may validly remain.
Very few people reported they were intersex or of indeterminate sex - 3.2% of the intentional, valid diverse sex/gender population, and 0.17 per 100,000 of the Australian population. (a) Comprises people with a valid and intentional sex/gender other than male or female.
An individual with 46, XX hermaphroditism has two XX chromosomes and the ovaries of a woman, but has external genitalia that appear to be male. This type is usually caused by the excessive exposure of the female fetus to male hormones in the womb.
Intersex itself is not a disorder, rather a variation. But Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, for instance, is an inherited disorder affecting adrenal function.
An intersex person is called a Khunthaa in the books of Fiqh. Intersex medical interventions are considered permissible to achieve agreement between a person's exterior, chromosomal make-up or sex organs. They are regarded as treatment and not the altering of Allah's creation or imitation of the opposite sex.
Other intersex conditions, including the last four conditions listed above—complete androgen insensitivity, Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, and vaginal agenesis—usually do not result in ambigu- ous genitals and may not be recognized at birth.
During early development the gonads of the fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female. After approximately 6 to 7 weeks of gestation, however, the expression of a gene on the Y chromosome induces changes that result in the development of the testes.
For some however, their gender identity does not match their chromosomes. For example, a person may not identify as female, but a DNA test might show that they have an XX pair of chromosomes. A person might identify as male, but when tested is shown to have chromosomes that suggest they are intersex.