"Any man who curses his father" (Leviticus 20:9): what does Scripture teach by saying "any man, any man"? To include the one of indeterminate sex and the one of double sex. "Who curses his father": I know only of his father and his mother together. His father but not his mother, his mother but not his father, from where? Scripture teaches, "his father he cursed, his mother he cursed," in any case. These are the words of Rabbi Yoshiyah. Rabbi Yonatan says: the phrase implies both of them as one, and it implies each one on his own, until Scripture specifies for you "together." Our rabbis taught: "his father and his mother he cursed": even after death. For I might have thought: since he is liable for striking and liable for cursing, and just as with striking he treated the one not of your people like one of your people, is it not right that he should not be liable after death? Scripture teaches, "his father and his mother he cursed." This works well for Rabbi Yonatan, for whom the verse "his father and his mother" is extra; but for Rabbi Yoshiyah, what can be said? And the other one needs it to include the one of indeterminate sex and the one of double sex. But let him derive that from "any man, any man." The Torah spoke in the language of human beings.
Cursing a Father or Mother Even After Their Death
Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 330:2
(שמות כא יז) (ויקרא כ, ט) "אִישׁ אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר יְקַלֵּל אֶת אָבִיו", מַה תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר "אִישׁ אִישׁ", לְרַבּוֹת טוּמְטוּם וְאַנְדְּרוֹגִינוּס. "אֲשֶׁר יְקַלֵּל אֶת אָבִיו", אֵין לִי אֶלָּא אָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ אָבִיו שֶׁלֹּא אִמּוֹ, אִמּוֹ שֶׁלֹּא אָבִיו, מִנָּיִן. תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר, "אָבִיו קִלֵּל, אִמּוֹ קִלֵּל", מִכָּל מָקוֹם, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי יֹאשִׁיָּה. רַבִּי יוֹנָתָן אוֹמֵר, מַשְׁמַע שְׁנֵיהֶן כְּאֶחָד, וּמַשְׁמַע אֶחָד אֶחָד בִּפְנֵי עַצְמוֹ, עַד שֶׁיִּפְרֹט לְךָ הַכָּתוּב "יַחְדָּו". תָּנוּ רַבָּנָן, "אָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ קִלֵּל", לְאַחַר מִיתָה, שֶׁיָּכוֹל, הוֹאִיל וְחִיֵב בְּמַכֶּה וְחִיֵב בִּמְקַלֵּל וְכוּ', וּמַה מַּכֵּה שֶׁעָשָׂה בּוֹ שֶׁלֹּא בְעַמְּךָ כִּבְעַמְּךָ וְכוּ', אֵינוֹ דִין שֶׁלֹּא חַיָּב לְאַחַר מִיתָה, תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר "אָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ קִלֵּל". הָנִיחָא לְרַבִּי יוֹנָתָן, דִּמְיָיתֵּר לֵיהּ קְרָא "אָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ", אֶלָּא לְרַבִּי יֹאשִׁיָּה מַאי אִיכָּא לְמֵימַר וְכוּ'. וְאִידָךְ, מִבַּעְיָא לְרַבּוֹת טוּמְטוּם וְאַנְדְּרוֹגִינוֹס. וְתֵפוּק לֵיהּ מֵ"אִישׁ אִישׁ", דִּבְּרָה תוֹרָה כִּלְשׁוֹן בְּנֵי אָדָם.