The guys who are girls until they become guys..at 12 or so?
Sept 20, 2015 15:54:21 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2015 15:54:21 GMT -6
Well, this may not be a safe story to post and discuss just anywhere. Some sites would be quite dangerous for giggle factors that can't seem to be controlled. We seem to do pretty well on odd topics though, so lets take a look at a real odd example of biology in the world around us?
This isn't a story of transgender, or trans-anything for the sense of those terms in society today. This is actual biologic function which, in some weird quirk here, is delayed before becoming pronounced.
The story goes into some depth of the biology behind this and why this happens. It comes down to a hormone imbalance, that balances back out in a second major dump of hormones. That occurs naturally at puberty.
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Now how is that for a real interesting example of the true diversity of nature, and just how varied it can get all by itself?
Johnny is known as a “Guevedoce”, which literally means, “penis at twelve”. And the reason he’s called that is because, like 1 in 90 of the boys in the area, he first started to grow a penis when he was going through puberty.
Guevedoces are also sometimes called “machihembras” meaning “first a woman, then a man”. When they’re born they look like girls with no testes and what appears to be a vagina. It is only when they near puberty that the penis grows and testicles descend.
Guevedoces are also sometimes called “machihembras” meaning “first a woman, then a man”. When they’re born they look like girls with no testes and what appears to be a vagina. It is only when they near puberty that the penis grows and testicles descend.
This isn't a story of transgender, or trans-anything for the sense of those terms in society today. This is actual biologic function which, in some weird quirk here, is delayed before becoming pronounced.
At conception we all inherit a set of genes from our parents that will, in time instruct our bodies to make us male or female. But for the first few weeks of our lives human embryos are neither.
The story goes into some depth of the biology behind this and why this happens. It comes down to a hormone imbalance, that balances back out in a second major dump of hormones. That occurs naturally at puberty.
When Dr Imperato investigated the Guavadoces she discovered the reason they don’t have male genitalia at birth is because they are deficient in an enzyme called 5-α-reductase, which normally converts testosterone into dihydro-testosterone. So they appear female when they are born, but around puberty, when they get another surge of testosterone, they sprout muscles, testes and a penis.
Now how is that for a real interesting example of the true diversity of nature, and just how varied it can get all by itself?
