Imagine a tribe on this earth where every child is given birth to as a female. The thought of this alone makes one concerned about how there would be a next generation.
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This plight is exactly the case in Salinas, a remote village lying in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. The Guevedoce children of the Dominican Republic literally appear to change their s3x when they hit adolescence.
This remarkable case of the Guevedoces is a condition that affects just over 1 percent of the boys born in Salinas.
Guevedoces as these children are called literal translates to “penis at 12”. The term means “first a woman, then a man”. The children appear to be completely female at birth and are brought up to be little girls.
At birth, they lack testes and instead have what appears to be a vagina. This condition only changes when they near puberty. It is at this stage that the penis grows and testicles form.
After the developments of puberty, Guevedoces grow up to be fully functional males in their society. Not all Guevedoces in the Dominican Republic change their name upon hitting puberty – some grown men in the region have female names throughout their life.
The condition is not isolated to just the Dominican Republic, it’s also been observed in Turkey and New Guinea.
This deficiency seems to be a genetic condition, quite common in this part of the Dominican Republic, but vanishingly rare elsewhere. So the boys, despite having an XY chromosome, appear female when they are born.
At puberty, like other boys, they get a second surge of testosterone. This time the body does respond and they sprout muscles, testes and a penis.
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