Saturday, August 13, 2011

Is it possible for Mary to have a child born with female and male organs? Why or why not?

"The men-are-men-and-women-are-women umption is the tendency to think about femaleness and maleness as discrete, mutually exclusive, complementary categories. In thinking about hormones and , this general attitude leads one to ume that females have female hormones that give them female bodies and make them do female things, and that males have male hormones that give them male bodies and make them do opposite male things. Despite the fact that this approach to hormones and is totally wrong, its simplicity, symmetry, and comfortable social implications draw us to it." (Pinel, 2007).

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