Back around 1400 years ago....a couple of Jewish Rabbis got together and wrote the Talmud....a collection of 'laws' and wisdom....to be handed down.
So they wrote a page for Talmudic classifications of gender:
1. Zachar: (male)
2. Nekevah: (female)
3. Androgynos: (androgynous): Males and females....who had both sexual characteristics (meaning they were bi).
4. Tumtum: A person whose sexual characteristics are unclear or indeterminate.
5. Eilonit hamah: Basically a person who identified as female at birth who naturally develops male characteristics later in life.
6. Eilonit adam: A person identified as female at birth who develops male characteristics due to human intervention.
7. Saris hamah: A person identified as male at birth who naturally develops female characteristics later in life.
8. Saris adam: A person identified as male at birth who develops female characteristics due to human intervention.
I paused over my reading....realizing around the 6th Century (AD)....this came up and a couple of guys must have spent a month or two talking about this, and folks were giving some pretty crazy stories.
This 'human-intervention' deal? It's not really described in any detail.
Trying to associate this with Dybbuk (demonic possession within the Jewish lifestyle)? No.
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During nice weather, our folks often kicked us out if we were noisy.
"You kids are running around screaming like a bunch of damned yahudis!"
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Apparently, and I am just guessing here, my family recognizes a problem and understands the solution.
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