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This is Islay (eye-la), my hermaphrodite cat!
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This is an odd one, cause it's also medical I think? Or just scientific like hermaphroditic plants. For sure a person-slur though. Like a person may be hermaphroditic, but at the very least it's a faux pas to call them a hermaphrodite, if not derogatory outright.
It is used in a medical/scientific context, but most intersex people consider it bad, as it only used to refer to people until fairly recently (19th century I think?). When talking about species that can reproduce by themselves (like slugs or some plants), I've heard the word cosexual is preferred.