Güevedoce
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In the
Early research
The first
5α-Reductase deficiency, and the results were published in the journal Science in 1974. The frequency of the deficiency was found to be unusually high in Las Salinas, with occurrence ratio of 1 güevedoce to every 90 unaffected males.[11]
The transformation of a
embryonic development of primary male sexual characteristics such as genital size. However, the oxidized form of the hormone, testosterone, promotes secondary sex characteristics. Thus, an XY child without functioning 5α-reductase cannot convert testosterone into the form that develops primary sex characteristics and will have the appearance of female genitalia. At puberty, when large amounts of testosterone are produced, secondary sex characteristics (e.g., deepening voice, hair pattern changes, muscle anabolism, etc.) develop, thus producing a phenotypic male.[citation needed
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Status in society
In countries like the United States, intersex children are often operated on immediately after birth to make their genitals appear either typically male or female. In the Dominican Republic guevedoces are regarded as a third gender, experiencing ambivalent gender socialisation. In adulthood, guevedoces most commonly self-identify as men, but are not necessarily completely treated as such by society.[8]
Anne Fausto-Sterling states that güevedoces (as well as people in Papua New Guinea with 5α-reductase deficiency) "are recognised as a third gender" by their cultures, while the cultures "nevertheless recognize only two gender roles".[8]
See also
- Gender system
- 5α-Reductase deficiency
References
- ISBN 9781510725379.
- ^ "The extraordinary case of the Guevedoces". BBC. 20 September 2015.
- ^ Баринова, Анастасия (4 September 2018). "Девочки превращаются в мальчиков: доминиканский феномен". National Geographic Russia (in Russian).
- ^ Knapton, Sarah (20 September 2015). "The astonishing village where little girls turn into boys aged 12". The Telegraph.
- ISBN 9781506331324.
- ^ Pou, Jackie (4 March 2015). "The World of Intersex Children and One Person's Journey Between Two Sexes". ABC News.
- ^ Kogan, Terry S. (1997). "Transsexuals and Critical Gender Theory: The Possibility of a Restroom Labeled Other". Hastings Law Journal. 48 (6): 1244.
- ^ ISBN 0465077145.
- . Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ The 'Guevedoces' of the Dominican Republic, Urological Sciences Research Foundation, retrieved August 23, 2019
- S2CID 36427689.
External links
Look up güevedoce in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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