The word "ubhatovyañjanaka" is usually thought to describe people who have both male and female sexual characteristics: hermaphrodites (intersex). In the Vinaya, it is said that "ubhatovyañjanaka" should not be ordained, on account of the possibility that they would entice a fellow monk or nun into having sex.Although it has been seen by some that the category of "ubhatovyañjanaka" is of later addition to the early buddhist texts , since it does not appear in the early suttas , the "Pāṭimokkhas", nor in the early parts of the Vinaya.