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Testicles found in Taiwanese woman
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inSing.com
A woman in Taiwan recently found out she has testicles after visiting a gynaecologist to treat an infection.
The tall, attractive 34-year-old has never experienced menstruation and visited a gynaecologist only recently to seek help for a possible infection of her vagina.
The specialist doctor found out through ultrasound scans that the woman does not have a uterus or ovaries. Instead, the doctor found testicles in the woman's groin area, albeit undeveloped ones.
The woman's chromosomes have also been verified as type 46XY, making her a hermaphrodite, or a person born with both male and female sex organs. She is also found to have testosterones, or male sex hormones.
In this peculiar case, the woman is a highly educated professional with a boyfriend and also prior sexual experience.
She looks like a normal woman, was raised as a female, and has always believed that she is female.
According to the doctor, about 3 to 4 in 100,000 people may have this condition.
To help the woman, the doctor will be removing her testicles with surgery before following up with a prescription of estrogen (female sex hormone) supplements.
The doctor adds that if left untreated, the undeveloped testicles may turn cancerous.
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