announcement

[jrtom]

Sometime around mid-August, tiedyechameleon and I will be having another child.

Current data are not conclusive, but we're fairly sure that it will either be a boy or a hermaphrodite. :) There's more to say about that, but for right now I'm just making this quick announcement so that I don't put it off any longer.

(If anyone is wondering whether we're planning on stopping here, it may (or may not) be informative to know that the child's nickname is "Encore".)

Comments

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

No, we don't have any reason to suspect that that might be the case.

It was not my intent to be offensive; I should hope that anyone that is reading this would be aware of that. I don't have any personal knowledge of whether hermaphroditism is biologically possible in humans or not, but "hermaphrodite" in that sense is what I meant to (jokingly) say. I don't have a clear understanding of what "intersex" means (although arguably I should).

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

It was meant as a head's up, not an "OMG I'M SO OFFENDED!!!!!111onelleventy!" and I presumed it was not your intent to offend anyone.

I'm not sure how I found out about it the intersex community, maybe through reading about infant circumcision? But apparently intersex is any case where an individual does not fit into the clear biological binary sex options of [female sex characteristics and XX] or [male sex characteristics and XY]. There's a lot of info at the Intersex Society of North America website.

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Ah. Thanks for the info. Sounds like hermaphroditism would be a special case of intersex from your description, but I understand that language can be important, especially for groups whose members are susceptible to marginalization and/or harassment.