Puberty goes wrong are here more who have this?

    • Puberty goes wrong are here more who have this?

      I'm 14 years old born inside a male body, and i thought always that i'm a boy/man.
      Till puberty started all was quit normal.
      But my puberty wouldn't start and now i'm 14 i'm some of 5% into my puberty only my body develops wrong.
      My voice would not dropping down, my body hair wouldn't start growing also my facial hair.
      All what is growing is my hips and i have some very light breasts grow.

      My general practitioner have send me to an specialist in the university hospital, and they started examine my body,
      i have had blood tests weight and so on.

      Today i have had the results of these tests and examinations.
      The specialist sys to my and my parents that my body don't produce enough testosterone to become in a clear male puberty, and that my body have inside a huge amount of female chromosomes.
      With this both together the specialist says that i'm not am a male but also that i'm not am a female.
      The specialist says that i am a hermaphrodite, that means that i am male and female.
      And that my body will develops in both ways but with less testosterone and lots of female chromosomes i will become more in the feminine way of puberty.
      He says also that is not a shame and that there are some 1 on 50000 teens who have this.

      My parents have had some paperwork from the specialist with this they must go to the town hall to change my birth certificate, my gender must change from M ( male ) into X ( hermaphrodite)
      And my parents must add a female name to my boy's name who i have since my birth, and both names must be coupled with an - hypen so i can't use my boy and girl name seperate but together.
      My birth given name is Thomas now my parents decided to add Suzanne ( what is a very feminine girls name ) to my name si my new name is now Thomas-Suzanne this is all following the rules of the law here in Germany.

      But now my ask the specialist says that there are some 1 on 50000 teens who are hermaphrodite like me, are here some hermaphrodites too?

    • I'm not sure you have to class yourself as intersex (as thats what they're actually called not hermaphrodite)
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_rights_in_Germany

      And if you were you'd need to have some form of female genitalia (especially to have a large volume of female hormones), which would have been identified at birth

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    • jamesfocus wrote:

      There are intersex individuals but that is typically identified at birth.

      Your story sounds way too fantastic to be true. I’m call BS

      BJade wrote:

      I'm not sure you have to class yourself as intersex (as thats what they're actually called not hermaphrodite)
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_rights_in_Germany

      And if you were you'd need to have some form of female genitalia (especially to have a large volume of female hormones), which would have been identified at birth
      Thomas-Suzanne's mom here.

      About the term intersex/hermaphrodite, we think that it is the age of the specialist witch term they use, intersex is a very modern new term used from out of the nineties, before that they used the term hermaphrodite.
      The young and modern specialists are using the term intersex, but the old ones who has used the therm hermaphrodite from out of the start of their career, they have this term for so long in their minds that they using these term now and never have switched to the modern term intersex, but both means the same.

      About Identifying, intersex/hermaphrodite is in about 60% diagnosed at birth, as they can it see on gentials.
      But for 40% they can only diagnose intersex/hermaphrodite at puberty, this is only in case if there are different structure in hormones and/or chromosomes, this they can't see at birth.

    • The term hermaphrodite is generally used to mean an organism that has both sets of genitals and can there function in either role. I think that would be very unusual in humans.

      Being intersex is not very common but can happen. Essentially, the default is to be female. In the womb, male babies start to become male because the SRY gene on the Y chromosome cause the embryonic gonads to be testicles rather than ovaries. They make testosterone and that influences the development of various other things to go along the male line including having a penis and scrotum, the testicles descending into it. Testosterone also affects parts of the brain, particularly the hypothalamus, to cause us to have male behaviour after birth. Because several areas of the brain are affected, if there is some hormonal disruption some parts of our behaviour can be more male than others. That is probably where both different sexual orientation and being transgender come from.

      Puberty is again driven by hormones. It can happen that there can be a shortage of testosterone in the womb and that therefore a baby appears female externally but, if there are testicles then somehow wake up at puberty and start producing testosterone this can cause a "girl" to start to get male characteristics. I have not heard of it happening the other way round but then I haven't read about it in that much detail.