GIRLS in a remote Caribbean village are
becoming boys when they hit puberty due to a
rare genetic disorder. One in 90 children born
in Salinas in the Dominican Republic grow a
penis in a natural transformation from
female to male. Known as the guevedoces,
which translates as penis at 12, these
youngsters are referred to in medical terms
as “pseudohermaphrodite”.
It is so common to be a pseudohermaphrodite in
Salinas that it is accepted as a third sex,
alongside male and female. The phenomenon
is explored in a new BBC2 series called
Countdown to Life – the Extraordinary
Making of You. Presenters meet Johnny, 24,
who is physically and biologically male but was
once known as Felicitia.
As a child, he did not have a penis and was
brought up as a girl. He said: “I remember I
used to wear a little red dress. I was born at
home instead of in a hospital. They didn’t
know what sex I was. “I went to school and I
used to wear my skirt. I never liked to dress
as a girl. When they bought me girls toys I
never bothered playing with them. All I
wanted to do was play with the boys.”
The rare genetic disorder is caused by a
missing enzyme which prevents the
production of the male sex hormone dihydro-
testosterone in the womb. It creates what
looks like a baby girl on birth. But at puberty,
when testosterone flows, their voices break
and they grow a male sexual reproductive
organ that they become recognised as male.
BBC presenter Dr Michael Mosley said:
“Guevedoces are also sometimes called
‘machihembras’ meaning ‘first a woman,
then a man.’ “When they’re born they look
like girls with no testes and what appears to
be a vagina. “It is only when they near
puberty that the penis grows and testicles
descend.”
The guevedoces were first studied by Cornell
University endocrinologist Dr Julianne
Imperato in the 1970s. She travelled to the
region to learn more about rumours that
girls were morphing into boys.
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/caribbean-village-where-female-children-grow-penis-at-puberty/
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Nawa oooo e get watin person no go hear 4 this world........ pseduohermaphrodite kwa? Nver heard of this disorder hmmmm tnk God 4 internet & researchers

Abi na. "the more you live the more you learn.

Olivers2J:
Nawa oooo e get watin person no go hear 4 this world........ pseduohermaphrodite kwa? Nver heard of this disorder hmmmm tnk God 4 internet & researchers

Let's hope scientists would be able to give a very "comprehensive" explanation to this.

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