intersex is what it is called when a baby is born with male and female parts.
what is it called when a baby is born with male and female parts?
intersex
in "anitism", the wife of bathala, the supreme god of the tagalog people, was the hermaphrodite deity lakapati, who served as queen of the celestial abode and court called kaluwalhatian. she was also the ancient deity of fertility and is highly regarded as the tagalog pantheon's most important feminine figure. her relationship with the supreme god, bathala, was symbolic for the ancient tagalogs as it referred to marriage as a mutual bond between two parties regardless of gender, which was a common practice at the time. a record entry from 1613 noted that during sacrifices made in a new field, farmers would hold up a child and say, “lakapati, pakanin mo yaring alipin mo; huwag mong gutumin (lakapati, feed this thy slave; let him not hunger)”. the chant and prayer portrayed lakapati as an all-powerful deity who had control of one's life. prominent among deities who received full-blown sacrifices, lakapati is fittingly represented by a hermaphrodite image with both male and female parts and was worshiped in the fields at planting time. her bodily expression is notably feminine. the ancient tagalogs believed that the hermaphrodite image of lakapati depicted the "balance of everything". during early spanish rule, lakapati was depicted as the holy spirit, as the people continued to revere her despite spanish threats. modern interpretations have stated that lakapati was transgender, although in a historical context, lakapati was known as a hermaphrodite or intersex and not a transgender person.
intersex
the earliest groups of flowering plants among the magnoliids and the families choranthaceae, ceratophyllaceae, nymphaeaceae, annonaceae, and aristolochiaceae are bisexual with both male and female parts present and functional within the usually large floral structure. the main pollinators of these flowers were beetles, flies and thrips. they evolved mechanisms to reduce self-pollination by changing the timing of maturity of the male and female parts. this altered timing mechanism or dichogamy was principally expressed by protogyny or the early maturation of the female parts and only rarely by protandry or the early maturation of the male parts. the early flowers were principally flat and dish-like with the evolution of deeper corolla tubes being a later innovation and principally associated with long-tongued pollinators such as moths. there are a large number of other mechanisms that enhance cross-pollination and prevent self-pollination. the forces that lead to the evolution of such systems as bearing male and female flowers on separate kinds of plants is still unclear.
floral biology