Famous hemaphrodites

This article was published more than 10 years ago. Some information in it may no longer be current. The penis speculation reared its head at the Glastonbury festival as Lady Gaga, the provocative pop artist, hopped off a motorbike in a very short skirt revealing a sticky-outty part no one knew she had. Come on, don't tell me you're the one person on the planet who didn't Google it.

What to make of the child of two successful and famous actors who grows up to achieve an equal measure of fame in the same field? What if this gal has a boyish-sounding name and adopts children rather than bears her own? A rumor, apparently. And one she would rather not discuss at all:.

The term hermaphrodite derives from Hermaphroditus, the Greek mythological child of Hermes and Aphrodite. According to newspaper reports, tests show that sex row runner Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite. The unreleased report shows the South African has no womb or ovaries and has internal testes — the male sex organs that produce testosterone. Here's some more facts about hermaphrodites and a history of hermaphrodites in film, art and video games. Born a handsome boy, he was transformed into an androgynous being by union with the nymph Salmacis.

She was originally born with swelling genitals resulting in her initial identification as a male. Simmons went on to have sex reassignment surgery in and was married in South Carolina with what was considered to be the first legal interracial marriage. Cheryl Chase Born in , doctors were baffled over the intersex condition and ambiguous genitalia. It was discovered that she had a mixture of male and female sex organs, consisting of ovaries and a uterus.