Pseudohermaphrodites

I saw a fascinating BBC production that talked about girl babies turning  into boys at puberty. Can’t the babies be chromosome tested at birth so they can be raised congruent with who they are genetically?

For years researchers have been studying a specific family system in the Dominican Republic where XY babies appeared to be female at birth and were raised female until puberty, when “all hormonal hell broke loose and my girl grew a penis and turned into a boy,” as one parent put it. According to a BBC series, these children are called guevedoces, which loosely translates to "penis at twelve,” or machihembras, which means "first a woman, then a man." And yes, with ongoing research, physicians in the Dominican Republic have become more attuned to identifying which girls may turn out to be guevedoces at the onset of puberty. (BBC Two series "Countdown to Life”)

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