hermaphrodite is a slur used against trans people and intersex people.
...People use it against trans people? Wtf? Also, apologies, I'm aware of the way a lot of people use it, I usually default to using intersex but the issue is more people recognize hermaphrodite than intersex as being what they are, and generally speaking it's just easier to say hermaphrodite than fight to explain the issue with the original term and how it's only acceptable within medical contexts under a porn game, ya know?
the usage of hermaphrodite against trans or intersex people and characters constitutes as a slur due to its historic usage against them.
from wikipedia vvv
Terms used to describe intersex people are contested, and change over time and place. Intersex people were previously referred to as "hermaphrodites" or "congenital eunuchs".[11][12] In the 19th and 20th centuries, some medical experts devised new nomenclature in an attempt to classify the characteristics that they had observed, the first attempt to create a taxonomic classification system of intersex conditions. Intersex people were categorized as either having "true hermaphroditism", "female pseudohermaphroditism", or "male pseudohermaphroditism".[13] These terms are no longer used, and terms including the word "hermaphrodite" are considered to be misleading, stigmatizing, and scientifically specious in reference to humans.[14]
words like spooky or rat are also slurs towards certain groups of people. should we stop using them, even if theyre not used to refer to people in a derogatory way? calling reallife people hermaphrodites is kinda messed up perhaps, since intersex make up an extremely small percentage of human population so its not even relevant, but calling game characters with two sets of genitals hermaphrodites? who cares about that?