This is what worries me.

plus it is just that Chakat Species are Herm and most of the time would be tag in the drop down as Herm. Cause Chakats are not intersexed. They are Herms.

We're not really worried. We don't think FA even wants to implement e621's style of search term merging. And if they do, they are more likely to listen to users than e621's admins are.

eh they dont exatly have the best history fo listening to the community or always being transparent so am not holding my breath on that but the fact you can still manually tag and use the term is fine

I would honestly prefer they just bring back CBoy and DGirl at this point. Yes they're crude but they make it crystal clear what you're going to see. The gynomorph tag especially is a complete crap shoot.

At the risk of sounding like a dunce, would it be alright to ask what the specific difference between someone who identifies as herm or is portrayed as one and someone who's intersex? Again, apologies if this sounds like a question with an obvious answer; I'm not really good at picking up nuances by myself, if that makes sense.

Hi there! As someone who has used that word to self-identify up until now, I can try to point you in a helpful direction, but not being intersex myself, I can't claim to speak for those who are.

Based on my knowledge, the characters portrayed and described by the word "herm" are usually seen as possessing simultaneously functioning masculine and feminine reproductive anatomy. Intersex people, on another hand, as far as I am aware, have their sexual characteristics present in ways that do not fall neatly into the traditional categories of "male" or "female," but this does not mean that they possess the characteristics associated with "herm" characters either. To the best of my knowledge (which is at the moment unfortunately shallow), I am not aware of the existence of intersex people who possess the characteristics of a "herm" character, as the term is used in communities like this.

There is currently a discussion in the FA official Discord (in a thread under the Feedback channel) wherein intersex people have shared their experiences with the use of the term "herm" in this community, and their suggestion to use "dualsex" instead as a descriptor for characters with both masculine and feminine reproductive anatomy. I would advise anyone who wants to know more to read up more on what they have to say there, but in short, the history as I understand it from how it was presented there is this: the word "hermaphrodite" was originally used in a derogatory way against intersex people before it was applied by scientists to dualsexed organisms, and even now it is used incorrectly to refer to intersex people by those who mean to imply they are dualsex (either to demean them or due to a lack of understanding on intersex anatomy.)

Since it is a term that many intersex people today have painful associations with due to the harm that prejudice and lack of understanding has caused, it is suggested that an easy-to-understand, straightforward term be used to replace it in communities like this, in order to allow them to feel safer. It's important to note that they, and I, don't want to see our identities disappear. We just want to be able to express our identities in terms that don't hurt anyone or make them uncomfortable - and especially not to bring up painful memories of real and present bigotry and mistreatment.

Thank you so much for the in-depth clarification! I wish I had a longer response to this other than "thanks" because of how much research you put into making your reply. Truth is, you surmised it everything pretty well that I don't have any other comments to say!
Again, thank you for letting me know the difference. I always want to make sure that I never end up actually demeaning someone on their identity, even by accident. It's helpful for me to know about these types of things, even if I don't belong to that specific community.

I just know that a good herm can take care of a lot of problems (I'm a sucker for a good herm)

Herm is acceptable!

Didn't this issue come up once before a few years ago?