A hermaphrodite is a sexually reproducing organism that produces both male and female gametes. Animal species in which individuals are either male or female are gonochoric, which is the opposite of hermaphroditic. The word “hermaphrodite” originally meant “a person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sex characteristics, either abnormally or (in the case of some organisms) as the natural condition.”; it is a stigmatizing and misleading word when used to refer to an intersex person, though some reclaim the word. Once, the ovotesticular intersex variation was called "simultaneous" or "true hermaphroditism", and other intersex variations were called "pseudohermaphroditism". This word is not interchangeable with intersex and you should only refer to someone as hermaphrodite if they specifically tell you that you can.