Correct gender given 18 years later - It's a BOY!!!

[mcs328]

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_749805.html

Girl, 18, discovers she's a boy

An Indian girl who spent the first 18 years of her life as a female has just discovered that she is a boy.

Poonam approached doctors at the Sawai Mansingh Hospital in Jaipur, complaining of pain in the lower abdomen

Tests revealed a developing male sex organ, which was freed after a two-and-a-half hour operation.

After the operation, doctors reportedly told Poonam's parents: "A son is born."

The teenager, from Amarsar, has now been given a male name Poonamchand.

Hospital authorities say the patient will remain under observation for another 10 days.

Dr Pradeep Goyal told the United News of India: "Both the patient and the family are very happy."


Story filed: 07:45 Wednesday 12th February 2003

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[Nija]

umm... so she was a she, and now she's a he?

[attgig]

that's just weird...
why was the penis hiding inside all the time?
why did it take so long to develop?
or was it always there, always developing, and for some reason...she...i mean errr he, had a flap of skin covering it???

then does that mean she had a vagina?
or did she never even have that????

how bout periods? wasn't it weird that she hit peuberty, but never got periods??? that's assuming that she didn't have a womb. So, maybe she was a transvestite?

that article was too short and didn't explain things well :(

[mcs328]

Hermaphrodite? I dunno but they performed an operation to free it. So I guess it was totally internal. Man, wouldn't it hurt if she/he got excited and the member grew. Ouch. Weirdness.

[welfareloser]

not a hermaphrodite. sometimes male sex organs just get hung up on their way out, or maternal hormonal influences make them underdeveloped, and they LOOK like girls organs, but they are genetically 100% male. that's why i think in the case of any abnormality or ambiguity whatsoever, get a $60 genetic test done to count X and Y chromosomes. it's cheap and then there's never any doubt.

i went to an endocrinologist once about some hormonal imbalances. turns out they were no big deal, and man was he relieved... the initial readings were so out-of-whack that it made him afraid that he might have to tell me that, not only was i never going to have kids, but that i was genetically a male ... as he had had to do twice in his career before.


it's like, if the only way to tell men from women was the presence of boobs, there are some girls on the itty bitty titty committee who would be mistaken for boys. :shrug:

[Grimm]

Ernest P. Whorl (jim Varney) said it best: Eheeeeeeew!