Thank you to the Ladies at the board, Laura and Andromeda, Chateau Crew, everyone attended, and those involved in making possible this so wild session.
I have not read all the answers, yet, so I'm sorry if part of what is below have already been said by someone else.
(L) Could Michelle Obama be a hermaphrodite?
A: Yes
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Q: (L) Well, hermaphrodite is, as I understand it - and some of you people can correct me if I'm wrong - is an individual born with both sets of sexual organs. It can be an individual who has both a penis and a vagina.
(Gaby) But usually they will be XY or XX even though they're hermaphrodites. There's like a medical anomaly. You know, one gender will predominate.
(L) Is that what we're looking at here?
A: Yes
[...]
Q: (L) So you're saying Barry Obama is a sick person. Sick in what way?
A: Psychopath.
Q: (Joe) Is he an underground person?
A: No, not smart enough.
I'll be back about hermaphroditism below, but I was wondering about Barry being "not smart enough" to be an underground being.
Not that I know the degree of his cleverness, or even if he is smart in the strict sense of the word, but it does raise the question of how far intelligent (as cold as it can be, I guess) these beings born or raised in these underground cities far below the Earth's surface really are.
Whether they surpass us in sheer cleverness and/or whether the possible total absence of emotions (which again I'm assuming, considering the fact that they're totally driven by 4th STS) gives them an advantage over us, in some way. I suppose that this advantage might be pretty obvious, I am just wondering to which extent, exactly.
I guess an entire session could be devoted to the hybrids/underground people topic alone, in addition to the occurrences that already exist in previous sessions.
The attempts to get names of some of them that are with us here on the ground were very funny, so thank you for the humorous atmosphere, which considerably lightens the seriousness of the subjects discussed and the so sick side of our reality.
(seek10): How many people are like that in the world currently? Like Michelle Obama?
(L) You mean hermaphrodites?
(seek10) Right.
(L) What's the... It's very small.
(Gaby) It's very, very rare.
A: Less than 5K.
Q: (Andromeda) Very rare.
(Joe) And then becoming the First Lady. What are the odds?
People
like Michelle Obama, meaning (at least to me)
adults that have kept both male and female sexual organs, would then be less than 5K. However, I don't think this means that hermaphroditic births aren't more numerous.
I found
an oral question/answer put in the French Senate. The oral question was put on 8th October
2015 and published in the
Journal Officiel the same day (page 2345).
They use the term intersexuation to refer to hermaphroditism, and here's what I found interesting.
Question:
The issue of intersex is still largely misunderstood: intersex people are not born with specific sexual characteristics (fully male or female). Around 2% of intersex children are born each year in France, leaving parents at a loss to decide which sex they want their child to be.
with the advice of doctors. These surgical practices are a real form of violence against these children. Painful and often very numerous, they often lead to post-operative difficulties and identity disorders. The United Nations Organization (UNO) recognizes these medical practices as veritable mutilations.
She therefore asks what measures can be taken to better understand this situation, to protect intersex children and guarantee their right to physical integrity.
The oral answer was given on 2nd February
2016 and published the day after (page 2485). I only put here what is interesting regarding what I want to highlight about hermaphroditism, in France:
Poorly informed, parents have three years to decide which sex they want their child to be registered as, according to the binary gender classification.
The resulting acts of corrective surgery are described as veritable mutilation and torture by United Nations institutions and by the Council of Europe, in its 2013 report on children's rights to physical integrity.
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Fortunately, these situations are extremely rare: the incidence at birth is poorly known, but is thought to be of the order of one in 5,000 births, or probably around 160 per year.
So, first, French parents have three years to decide what their child be, a girl or a boy. This suggests that many of these children undergo so-called corrective surgeries (not one, but many) from an early age, and in fact, from what I've read here and there (mostly in French), it often takes well into their entire childhood. What a hell for them!
It seems (from this oral question/answer) that other countries gives a far more long delay to parents (up to the child's 15th birthday like Germany for example).
Second, we can read in the oral question above:
Around 2% of intersex childs are born each year in France. I looked for the number of births in France each year,
it is 753,000 for 2019. And 2% of 753,000 is
15,060, not 160 as this figure is given in the oral answer above. Does it mean that they are not all reported (if I'm not mistaken, numbers aren't really my thing)? I wonder.
I also learned that there can be many forms and variations of hermaphroditism, but that
only three types are distinguised today:
- true hermaphroditism, a very rare form characterized by the simultaneous development of ovarian and testicular tissue;
- pseudo-hermaphroditism in men, or male pseudo-hermaphroditism, which is associated with individuals with an XY karyotype (defining a male individual) presenting ambiguous genital tracts and external genitalia;
- pseudo-hermaphroditism in women, or pseudo female hermaphroditism, which is associated with individuals with an XX karyotype (defining a female subject) possessing ovaries but ambiguous external genitalia.
So three forms of hermaphroditism are distinguished, but we can guess that many others are not, yet, due to the many variations that exist.
According to the Intersexuation page of Wikipédia (in French, as I did not found statistics in the English one):
The organization Intersex International Europe estimates that at least one person in two hundred is intersex and, according to some sources, up to 1.7% of the population has a variation in sexual characteristics.
To compare with the year 2019 used above in my calculation for France, I took the world population figure for 2019: 7,743,000,000.
7 743 000 000 - 1,7 % =
131 631 000. That's huge!
But this figure is certainly lower when we're talking only about "true hermaphroditism", cases where the double gender of organs is not ambiguous (as most of the cases in the world might be), i.e. the simultaneous and unambiguous presence of male
and female genitalia, which could be the case for Michelle Obama, the figure given by the Cs for cases like her being 5K.
Things are really getting more and more interesting!