All Posts Tagged With: "hermaphrodite"

The third sex: The truth about gender ambiguity

Neither wholly male nor entirely female, there are more than 30,000 ‘intersexed’ individuals living in Britain today. Here, they talk about their lives By Colette Bernhardt -The Independent The greek scholar Diodorus Siculus wrote of the mythical double-sexed Hermaphroditus: “Some say [he] is a god and … has a body which is beautiful and delicate [...]

21Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

A family made, not born

Pakistani outcasts live together after their families abandoned them because they are congenital eunuchs and hermaphrodites By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Wearing a red knit bonnet, matching lipstick and a shawl over her large shoulders and muscular forearms, Ms. Nanni gently sought to clear up some confusion as the call to [...]

8Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

‘I look like a man, I talk like a man, I am a man’

Underworld flabbergasted to discover ‘Fat’ Murphy is a hermaphrodite By Shanaaz Eggington On the drug-ravaged streets he’s known as Fat Murphy. Feared by many, the burly suspected drug lord is clean-shaven and wears his second wife’s name tattooed on his arm. But the man who was banished from a crime-ridden suburb on the Cape Flats [...]

10Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued