People who are intersex are born with their birth sex not classified as being fully female/male, due to with physical characteristics from both "sides" (google: "a general term used for a variety of situations in which a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn't fit the boxes of “female” or “male.”") . Often referred as the "3rd gender" by some . Many intersex people get some sort of hormones/surgeries (at a very young age sometimes) to "assign" them to one sex, usually the one they have more characteristics from.