Caught between a male personality and female body

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Caught between a male personality and female body

By Yazid Yolisigira
Posted  Sunday, October 23  2011 at  00:00

http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/Life/-/689856/1259862/-/bpg4vk/-/

Makutu village, about 30kms from Iganga town is quite popular because of one person, Nabirye,whose first name I later learn is Fauza. When you ask what is special about Nabirye, laughter follows as the person delves into explaining her double-gender - male and female. It is obviously very complicated to explain that the said Nabirye, could easily pass for a woman or man because she has two sexual organs. The dictionary word for people like her is hermaphrodite.

In Busoga culture, the name Nabirye is often given to a woman who has given birth to twins. The parents of the 20-year-old, say that they named their child Nabirye because of her two sexual organs, an explanation other elders on the village concur with.