There is no such thing as "hermaphrodites" in the human race, there is not a single case documented where an individual had both functioning gametes, ever.
Yes there is. I can think of one.
A female presenting African had a womb, vagina and one (probably) functioning testicle.
I saw it on a TV documentary following a surgeon who was in Africa doing humanitarian work.
The young lady was almost certainly a chimera, and her egg had been fertilized (unevenly) by two sperm or something similar. Perhaps a twin was absorbed at a very early point in cell division? Who knows.
The operating surgeon was utterly surprised, and commented that if her plumbing had been slightly different she might have fertilized herself.
It was a phenomenally unlikely development, with a chance of billions to one against. She didn't have two working sets of genitals. Her puberty was being messed up by having a testicle, and they corrected it by removing the aberrant gland so she could finish her puberty and go and get a husband and have a family.
So you are correct. There are effectively no hermaphrodites. There has been the vanishingly rare case of a freak of nature that has been non-viable. In this singular case it was a cluster of cells from a literal different person that had grown as a part of a fairly ordinary female, and required removal.
Yes there is. I can think of one.
A female presenting African had a womb, vagina and one (probably) functioning testicle.
I saw it on a TV documentary following a surgeon who was in Africa doing humanitarian work.
The young lady was almost certainly a chimera, and her egg had been fertilized (unevenly) by two sperm or something similar. Perhaps a twin was absorbed at a very early point in cell division? Who knows.
The operating surgeon was utterly surprised, and commented that if her plumbing had been slightly different she might have fertilized herself.
It was a phenomenally unlikely development, with a chance of billions to one against. She didn't have two working sets of genitals. Her puberty was being messed up by having a testicle, and they corrected it by removing the aberrant gland so she could finish her puberty and go and get a husband and have a family.
So you are correct. There are effectively no hermaphrodites. There has been the vanishingly rare case of a freak of nature that has been non-viable. In this singular case it was a cluster of cells from a literal different person that had grown as a part of a fairly ordinary female, and required removal.