Reply #23: It sounds by your post like this person is intersex...

[Bjorn Against]

My sociology professor in college was one of the countries foremost experts on people who do not fit into either the male or female category, they may share some physical characteristics of a male and some with a female.

This is a very taboo subject in America, people do not want to acknowledge that things are far more complex than people being male or female.

There are far more people who share characteristics with both sexes than most people realize, in fact if you make think you are male or female but you could actually have physical charicteristics of the opposite sex and not even realize it. If you are a man have you ever been tested to see whether or not you have ovaries? If you are a woman have you ever been examined to see if you have undescended testicles? The fact is most of us do not really know whether we are truly male or female.

In Papa New Guinea there are actually a huge number of people who are neither male or female, no one is really sure why it is common in that part of the world but those who share characteristics of both sexes are actually up to in that society.

This is a topic people do need to talk about a lot more, because there is a lot of stigma in this society and by ignoring the issue it is not going to go away but people will continue to be afraid to express their identity.