The case of the ex-girls
Unsatisfyingly short article, but it’s the best I could find online. Guevedoce is the nickname given to a strange genetic anomaly especially common in the Dominican Republic, where it affects about 2% of children. It literally means something like “penis at 12”. The children are genetically male, but due to a genetic anomaly, look like girls at birth and up until puberty. Thus they, looking like girls, are brought up as such. Then, when puberty hits around the age of twelve, they develop testicles, a penis, their voice gets darker, and a male sexual identity develops. For the rest of their lives, they look fully male and live normal, healthy, male lives—save the minimal facial and bodial hair, the unyielding hairlines and unusually small prostate glands.
This certainly says interesting things about biology, identity, and all that jazz.
