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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]

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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?

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You're kinda incorrect on "spooky" because that's an adjective, not a noun.  Drop the y and it becomes a slur, and does not get used outside of being a slur.