>>88927705There's the ones that are fucking insane, and the ones with actually screwed up hormones and shit.
You know about how fucked up hermaphrodites get when parents decide to surgically remove the wrong parts while they're kids? Fucks them up for life, not psychologically but physically because the hormones get ten kinds of out of wack.
Like this one kid that was in the news years ago. Way back in the day they'd just assign herms a gender at birth and that was that, but its illegal to do now, you have to wait and see what they end up being so you don't make them the wrong thing by mistake. Well this one was abandoned to an orphanage run by a church and the head priest told a doctor "make it a girl" because the male parts were really underdeveloped to the point they were barely there. The doc told him its illegal and stupid, so he took the kid to a doctor willing to do it anyway.
So fast-forward to after this kid was adopted and starts getting sick around when puberty is supposed to start. After a shitload of blood work they find out that the kid's brain says he's a boy and the female anatomy is working and says he's a girl, and its screwing with everything in his body from kidneys to heart.
So they go through a massive amount of surgery not to give him a penis, but basically to damage the organs producing sexual hormones and reduce how much he gets for male or female. He's pretty fucked in the longterm though, chance of suicide due to hormonal imbalance is to the point that unless he gets hit by a car that's almost certainly how he's going to go and sex or sexual feeling is just dead.
That kind of shit can happen if you're not a herm too, with your body being totally hooked up wrong.
If they do blood work and you're legitimately getting the wrong hormones and whatever, it makes sense for them to get surgery to make everything work as best it can.
What I'm saying is fuck /pol/ and fuck Tumblr, trust in science.