Today's post is one of the oddest things I've ever heard about and trust me there is plenty of weirdness out there. In a remote village in the Dominican Republic (it has also been observed in Turkey and New Guinea) a little over 1% of the female babies born turn into males when they reach puberty. When they are born they are lacking testes and have what appears to be a vagina,but as they near puberty the testicles descend and a penis grows. The condition is caused by a deficiency of an enzyme that normally causes the body to produce male hormones. Once puberty begins it triggers increased levels of testosterone,changing the previously female body into a male. Once they change from female to male they live their lives as men with the only difference being less facial hair and smaller overall size. The discovery has been helpful in treating enlarged prostate and male pattern baldness.
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| This young man was born a girl but turned into a boy at age 7. |
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