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Homosexuality. Because of emotional disturbances, usually in childhood, physiologically normal males may develop the social attitudes of females, and vice versa. Homosexuality is not inherited and has little (usually nothing) to do with hormone balance. But many homosexuals refuse to admit this, and they reject the psychiatric treatment which offers them some chance of a normal social life. Many of them wear the clothes of the opposite sex, and pester endocrinologists for hormone injections to make them more, not less abnormal.
A few homosexual men have tried to persuade U.S. surgeons to operate on them to change them into pseudowomen. Most surgeons will have nothing to do with what they consider a crime against nature and the laws of the 48 states.
*From the Greek myth of Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who was joined to a nymph while bathing.