How girls suddenly grow penis at age 12 in Dominican Republic village
Catherine and his cousin Carla, Guevedoces in the Dominican Republic |
Girls in Salinas, in the Dominican Republic are reportedly becoming boys when they turn puberty due to a rare genetic disorder.
According to Sun UK, one-in-90 children born in Salinas grow a penis in a natural transformation from female to male.
The process is known as the guevedoces in the country which
translates to “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 newspaper reports of a 24-year-old Johnny, who is physically and biologically male but was once known as Felicitia.
Johnny, once known as Felicita, said he was born as a girl but developed into a boy aged seven |
As a child, he did not have a penis and was brought up as a girl.
Johnny told the newspaper, “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.
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