Androgyny
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Androgyny is the possession of both masculine and feminine characteristics. Androgyny may be expressed with regard to gender expression.
Louise Brooks exemplified the flapper. Flappers challenged traditional gender roles and had boyish hair cuts and androgynous figures.
Labor leader Luisa Capetillo wearing men's clothing
Yves Saint Laurent, the tuxedo suit "Le Smoking", created in 1966
Pop stars Boy George (pictured) and Annie Lennox appeared on the front cover of Smash Hits magazine in December 1983 in identical makeup, followed by the cover of Newsweek in January 1984 to mark a second British Invasion. Music journalist Sue Steward wrote that the Smash Hits cover "begged the question, 'Which one is the boy?'"
Hermaphrodite
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A hermaphrodite is a sexually reproducing organism that produces both male and female gametes. Animal species in which individuals are either male or female are gonochoric, which is the opposite of he
Androgyny
…the word androgynous was applied to humans with a mixture of male and female sex characteristics, and was sometimes used synonymously with the term hermaphrodite, though the term is now considered highly offensive . In some disciplines, such as botany, androgynous and hermaphroditic are still used interchangeably…
Garden snails mating
Shells of Crepidula fornicata (common slipper shell)
Clownfish are initially male; the largest fish in a group becomes a female.
Most species of parrotfish start life as females and later change into males.