Which SEX i am ??

Is it a boy or a girl? It's the first thing a mother wan ts to know after giving birth. Sometimes doctors can't answer. One in 500,000 of babies are born with genitals with some degree of ambiguity. They are not clearly male or female. These children are categorised as intersex, a group that includes many conditions, each one a group of its own. Jacob was born in the Philippines 16 months ago. Doctors call him a hermaphrodite because he was born with organs of both sexes – a penis, testes and a uterus. We join him in LA, where he has been taken by the charity Mending Kids International to undergo surgery. The complexities involved in intersexuality are reflected in Jacob’s story. Having already undergone a heart operation he struggles to survive a life threatening lung infection. Despite all this, his mother, Joahn, is determined that her son has yet another operation for doctors to discover if he has testicles and/or ovaries. His mother now has the agonising task of deciding what sex Jacob should be. She thinks he should be a boy, but is anxious about whether it is the right choice … What if he's unhappy as a man and he blames her? Meet Tiziana from Italy. At 24 she has found out that, genetically, she is a man. Tiziana has a condition called Androgyn Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS). She was born with male chromosomes, testes and no uterus but externally her genitals look completely female. She was diagnosed with the condition at the age of 15, but her parents kept it secret from her. She underwent an operation to remove her undescended testes and at the advice of the doctors her parents lied to her, telling her that the operation was to remove her uterus due to cancer. Today, Tiziana's relationship with her mother has broken down. Now she has decided to meet her mother for a showdown.

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