Talk:Leechi/@comment-27164001-20181226100244/@comment-29954782-20190406123834

I disagree, especially as hermpahroditism is only a type of intersex when it occurs as a mutation rather than natural biology for the species and treating the terms as interchangable muddies people's understanding of the them. Hermaphrodite is not a non-PC term unless you're calling an intersex person one and that's not their condition. The concept of Hermaphroditism is fairly old and commonly known even today (particularly with how internet culture has spread) and for fictional characters it explains their bodies easily. On the other hand, calling every hermaphroditic fictional character the broader umbrella term of intersex would likely conflate he two as people are more likely to run into hermaphroditic characters and art online than they would knowingly intersex people in real life. That means people will start thinking of intersex as meaning hermaphrodite and that just brings you back to square one just with the terms reversed.

TL;DR Leechi isn't intersex since her hermaphroditism is natural for her species and not a mutation and conflating the two terms as interchangable muddies people's understanding of them.