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Nivas
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Nadir
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Esscuseme
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After living as a male for 20 years, Anand, a native of Adilabad, learnt the other day that he is actually a female.
Doctors of the Osmania General Hospital and Maternity Hospital of Nayapul told the young "man" and his mother that the regular bleeding he was complaining about was actually delayed menstruation.
Anand has an abnormally large clitoris, which resembles a male organ, and an outgrowth of flesh that looks like testicles. His parents brought him up as a boy. Doctors have termed it a rare case of "external ambiguous genitalia". Only one in 100,000 persons develops such an abnormality. Apparently, it was noted when Anand was born.
It will take a couple of surgeries to make Anand a woman, physically, that is. "The patient can lead a normal marital life too," said Dr Parvathi, a gynaecologist at Nayapul Maternity Hospital.
But it will be a harder task for the "young man" to cope with the gender switch psychologically.
Anand, a native of Bellampally village in Adilabad, came to the Osmania General Hospital with his mother Anjamma on October 15, complaining of regular bleeding and urinary problems.
On examining the patient, Dr Jagdish, a urologist at the hospital, became suspicious and conducted a genitogram test and chromosome analysis. The chromosome analysis confirmed that the patient was female.
Dr Jagdish immediately referred the case to Nayapul Maternity Hospital, where doctors conducted more tests to confirm the finding. It was discovered that Anand, like other women, had a uterus, ovaries, fallopian tube and cervix.
"It’s a rare case," said Dr B. Kalidas, RMO of the maternity hospital, adding, "There is no external formation of the vagina. But beneath the clitoris there is an opening. We suspect that he has been passing urine through this."
Anand also started bleeding through this opening in the last few months and his parents thought he was suffering from piles. Mrs Anjamma was shocked on being told that her son is a daughter. "I am unable to come to terms with this," she told this correspondent. The family left the hospital but Mrs Anjamma has promised to come back.
Anand, wearing a trouser and shirt, looked like any other young man, except that there was no growth of hair on his face. "They are obviously in a state of shock," said Dr Manohar, superintendent of the maternity hospital. "They have, however, agreed that Anand undergo the necessary surgeries."
When Anand was born in the maternity hospital of Sultan Bazar 20 years ago, the doctor had noted that the child had ambiguous genitalia. Mrs Anjamma, who runs a kirana store in Bellampally, has four children. Anand is the eldest.
After the initial shock wore off, she confessed to doctors that Anand had recently shown some behavioural changes that had troubled her. "The breasts started developing only recently," said a doctor.
Doctors of the maternity hospital have also decided to give psychological counselling to Anand and his parents on how to cope with the truth of his womanhood. The family is also planning to shift from the village to avoid social stigma and live a normal life.
Courtesy: The Asian Age |
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