Taiwanese woman finds out she has testicles

straitstimes.com ^ | Oct. 20, 2011

[GeronL]

lol.

I guess he/she can decide what they want to be these days...

heh

/sarcasm

[petenmi]

[Disambiguator]

I thought there would be a more specific ping list for this kind of thing. :^)

[tbw2]

The neutral gender of humans is female.
Female anatomy is internal. Male anatomy is external. If the male organs don’t form right and descend, a genetic male looks like a female.
So if the testes and penis fail to form correctly, you get what looks like a girl. Then its raised as a girl for most of human history. No uterus, no period. But with poor nutrition, genetic defects, chronic illness or hormonal abnormalities, lack of a period throughout life is not unknown for real women.

A baby in the US would be sonogrammed, genetically tested, and they say “Ok, kid has un-descended testes. If they don’t come down, we’ll do the surgery (cut a slit and pull it out).” The penis isn’t truly formed, just becomes a large head of the clitoris. And being a girl in Asia, it’s fairly certain that the family ignored medical issues because “it’s a girl”.

[petenmi]

[scott7278]

The testicles were probably undescended, one on each side of her vagina, but in the groin - unable to be felt or seen. She probably had pain like a hernia and undoubtedly thought it was something along those lines if she asked around.

As far as never having a period, well, I guess that would be her “normal.”

[death2tyrants]

I think there was a song written about her.

[Fire_on_High]

When they stay inside your body and you don’t have a penis, either?

There are conditions where this happens, the child appears to all measures to be a girl, but the vagina is a blind pouch and the “ovaries” (which are really testes) have a tendency to become aggressively cancerous.

[grey_whiskers]

Jame Retief of the CDT (science fiction diplomat in the novels and short stories by Keith Laumer) had a great quip about this to an alien member of a species who reproduced asexually.

"I don't get it; you claim there are two types of [Terrans], male and female. Frankly, you all look alike to me."

"Oh, there's a vas deferens between us," Retief assured him.

By the way, I find your screen name singularly appropriate to this thread.

Cheers!

[newzjunkey]

You're confusing them with facts! They want to mock this woman.

The juvenile posters won't want to read what you've written but thank you for posting it anyway.

[newzjunkey]

Even a clearly male person may be born with one or two undescended testicles. They don’t “drop” in place until shortly before birth. This is a different medical case, however.

[Ezekiel]

[Slings and Arrows]

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[ApplegateRanch]

“If I had two, I could be King,” said the Queen.

[Daffynition]

#1 on the transplant list...

[ApplegateRanch]

please tell me how do you have testicles and not notice it?

Well, if you go skinny dipping in the ocean off northern Greenland...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They didn't drop to put it bluntly.

He is not exactly a normal guy but in this case with a little surgery he can live a pretty normal life.

Poor fellow.

[ApplegateRanch]

“Mr. Retief, make her [Retief’s Aide] stop flaunting her chest apendages at me!”

“Mr. Minister, I assure you she isn’t; they flaunt themselves!”

[JimRed]

True hermaphrodites are rare, but do exist. But they have both sets of gear, unlike this one.

[calex59]

Well, if she is made like an Hermaphrodite they are inside of her, not hanging down as a male has them.