Emily Lake
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Follow the reference links. The source saysI think this might be the case. My memory was that the individual both fathered a child and also gave birth but it's been some years so I could be mis-remembering. I don't remember it as a pubmed article though....It sounds like you might be referring to this case:Actually that’s not accurate: there is at least one individual who has been documented as both having fathered a child and having given birth to another child. Yes, it’s extraordinarily rare and very difficult to wrap one’s mind around.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7200380/
"An unusual case of true hermaphroditism is reported. The patient was a 32-year-old phenotypically male true hermaphrodite. Histology of his removed ovary suggested that ovulation had, at some time, occurred. He had also fathered a child and this is believed to be the first case of a cytogenetically proved true hermaphrodite who is fertile as a male."
The guy was a chimera -- two sperms and two ova fused in utero. So he had a functional testis and ovary; but I think the phrase "phenotypically male" means he had no uterus. The case is claimed to be unique in various cites, and if there's another case where the person also had a uterus and gave birth, my googling hasn't turned it up.
OK: I think I had read the Wiki or something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_hermaphroditism
Fertility[edit]
The gonad most likely to function is the ovary.[12] The ovotestes show evidence of ovulation in 50% of cases.[13] Spermatogenesis has only been observed in solitary testes and not in the testicular portions of ovotestes.[14][13] According to a 1994 study, spermatogenesis has only been proven in two cases.[15] One of the two cases, having XX,46/XY,46 mixture had fathered a child.[16]
It has been estimated that 80% of cases could be fertile as females with the right surgeries.[6]
Documented cases of fertility[edit]
There are extremely rare cases of fertility in "truly hermaphroditic" humans.[15][17]
In 1994 a study on 283 cases found 21 pregnancies from 10 true hermaphrodites, while one allegedly fathered a child.[15]
As of 2010, there have been at least 11 reported cases of fertility in true hermaphrodite humans in the scientific literature,[4] with one case of a person with XY-predominant (96%) mosaic giving birth.[18] All known offspring have been male.[19] There has been at least one case of an individual being fertile as a male.[16]
There is a hypothetical scenario, in which it could be possible for a human to self-fertilize. If a human chimera is formed from a male and female zygote fusing into a single embryo, giving an individual functional gonadal tissue of both types, such self-fertilization is feasible. Indeed, it is known to occur in non-human species where hermaphroditic animals are common.[20] However, no such case of functional self-fertilization or true bisexuality has been documented in humans.[14][10]
Emphasis mine. The orange line does NOT claim that the one hermaphrodite that fathered a child was one of the 21 who had pregnancies. It is a different person - it is one of the ONLY cases of a true hermaphrodite being fertile as a male, and that person was documented as being phenotypically male in appearance, but having one gonad formed of ovarian tissue. There are only two recorded cases of a true hermaphrodite even producing sperm at all.We reviewed 283 cases of human true hermaphroditism published from 1980 to 1992. Of the 96 cases described in Africa 96.9% showed a 46,XX karyotype. In Europe 40.5% of 74 cases and 21.0% of the patients in North America had chromosomal mosaicism. The 46,XY karyotype is extremely rare (7%) and equally distributed through Asia, Europe and North America. Of 283 cases 87 were of black or black mixed origin with a 46,XX chromosomal constellation. The most common gonad in patients with true hermaphroditism, an ovotestis, was found in 44.4% of 568 gonads. Gonads with testicular tissue were more frequent on the right side of the body, while pure ovarian tissue was more common on the left. Histologically the testicular tissue was described to be immature and only twice was spermatogenesis reported while the ovarian portion often appeared normal. This coincides with 21 pregnancies reported in ten true hermaphrodites while only one true hermaphrodite apparently has fathered a child. Of the patients 4.6% were reported to have gonadal tumours. Position and type of the genital ducts, frequency of clinical findings such as genital abnormalities and gynaecomastia, correlations between assigned sex and karyotype as well as the age at diagnosis are reported.