Incredible case where children up to the age of twelve are known as guevedoces and they are raised as girls because they have no visible testicles or penis. Boys barely have a male member at 12 years old. As hard as it may be to believe, in the town of Salinas in the Dominican Republic, male babies are born without a penis. It is a disease that affects one in 90 boys who suffer greatly in puberty, as they have to endure the laughter and teasing of some of their peers.
This phenomenon is real and has just been made known to the world, although those who have experienced it see it as something natural. In these cases the boys are known by the name of «guevedoce» which means that only at the age of 12 does the male member grow. When they are born they look like dolls, because they only have small holes that look like a vagina through which they carry out their physiological needs and are raised as girls due to several factors; one is the ignorance of the parents, and another; the really recent knowledge of science towards the «guevedoces».
For medicine, these are unique cases; the trauma for the “guevedoces” children is that justhe turns 12 years old his body begins to change, his masculine musculature is already obvious; and in addition, they continue to be mocked during this process. In the 1970s, research began on girls becoming boys and it was determined that it was due to a lack of an enzyme 5-alpha reductase, which converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone.
Research has shown that in most cases the new male organs function well, and that many “guevedoces” live their lives as men; although some are operated on to remain female. During the first weeks of life in the womb they are neither, around eight weeks after conception, the sex hormones appear. If you are genetically male, the Y chromosome instructs your gonads to become testicles and sends testosterone to a structure called the tubercle, where it is converted into a more powerful hormone, transforming you into a penis or clitoris.
In many parts of the world, the penis and testicles are known as «guevos», which differentiate the fact of being a man or a woman; Hence, in the Dominican Republic the terminology «guevedoce» is used because it is from the age of twelve that the male organs begin to emerge. They are also known as tongue-and-groove and are usually referred to as first female, then male. Although the “guevedoce” grow up to develop like any man, there are some subtle differences; since they tend to have smaller prostate glands and less facial hair than other people of the same sex.