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Intersex people are individuals born with any of several variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes , gonads , sex hormones or genitals that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights , "do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies". It was the first attempt at creating a taxonomic classification system of intersex conditions. Intersex people were categorized as either having true hermaphroditism , female pseudohermaphroditism , or male pseudohermaphroditism. Intersex people face stigmatization and discrimination from birth, or from discovery of an intersex trait, such as from puberty. This may include infanticide, abandonment and the stigmatization of families. However, this is considered controversial, with no firm evidence of favorable outcomes.

WHEN Cody was born intersex, her parents and doctors made a decision. She still wonders if it was the right one. A decade ago, when a baby was born with both male and female physical characteristics, doctors and parents faced a difficult choice. Now, things are changing. Cody was born with a naturally occurring intersex variation.

A Lusaka woman who is also a hermaphrodite and identified as Tanaka has protested by walking naked on Great East Road. She escaped from Chainama Mental Health Hospital where her guardians placed her suspecting that she has had a mental break down. But Tanaka says she has been put in jail mental hospital because no one understands her condition especially that she has big breats and brought up as a woman but she has full male genatalia. A hermaphrodite is a person having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally as natural condition. Tanaka says she wants people to understand her condition and that of others who usually commit suicide as no one understand the situation and they have to live life of a lie.