Chinese Woman Discovers Boyfriend is a Boy During Health Checkup: Rare Disease Revealed

A Chinese woman was preparing to marry her boyfriend, but during a health checkup she found out that he was a boy. (Photo/reproduced from Jimu News)

Normal people have obvious initial sexual characteristics, and their gender can be determined at birth However, a 27-year-old woman in China, Li Yuan (pseudonym), planned to marry her boyfriend after a preliminary examination , she found out that she was a man. The whole problem was due to disease.

According to “Jimu News”, when Li Yuan was in puberty, all his peers had already menstruated, but he had not yet menstruated, and his breasts had not grown when he 18 years old, he went to the hospital for a checkup and found that his estrogen and progesterone levels were abnormal, he was not worried.

Until this year, Li planned to marry his girlfriend, who was in a stable relationship, and who had a detailed preliminary examination of amenorrhea, but maybe 17α, a rare disease in adrenal hyperplasia -Hydroxylase deficiency, so a series of tests were completed treatment, there was also severe osteoporosis and the question of vitamin D deficiency.

In other words, Li Yuan’s social gender is female, but his chromosomal gender is male. not producing enough male hormones to develop male sexual characteristics, so the person may have questionable sexual characteristics and a more feminine appearance.

Li Yuan was shocked when he learned the truth, but he had to solve the problem as soon as possible because the testicles hidden in the womb were easily cancerous and needed to be removed removed by surgery as soon as possible. Due to 46xy 17α-hydroxylase deficiency, he is more likely to suffer from tree disease and bleeding, as well as adrenal insufficiency than normal patients. The medical team put together a detailed surgical plan and drug treatment, and he was released to successful 3 days after the surgery, but he had to schedule Take adrenocortical hormone drugs and go to the endocrinology department and the gynecology department for regular follow-up consultations.