Johnny lives in a remote village, Salinas lying in the south-west of Dominican Republic, where he and others like him are known as ‘Guevedoce’, meaning ‘penis at 12’. Sometimes they are also 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.
As covered by Michael Mosely in the new BBC series, Countdown to Life, the remarkable case of the Guevedoces is a condition that affects just over 1 percent of the boys born in Salinas.
Johnny, once known as Felicita, used to go to school in a little red dress though he was never happy doing girl things.
The rare genetic disorder occurs because of a missing enzyme which prevents the production of a specific form of the male sex hormone – dihydro-testosterone – in the womb.
Science, much?
News Source: Metro