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When do differences in sex development emerge?
People generally find out they have a difference in sex development around when they are born or once they become a teenager.

But Professor Højbjerg Gravholt explained the last patient he had diagnosed was a woman in her early thirties who had sought help as she could not get pregnant.

“She had a normal vagina, a normal external female appearance, but did not have a uterus, and she also produced a lot of testosterone from her two testes, which were placed at the same place as the ovaries,” he added.

Her experience demonstrates how complicated differences in sex development are, he said, explaining the patient was “devastated” when he told her that she could not get pregnant due to not having a uterus.



QUESTION: Discovering DSD later in life can lead to...

Responses

immediate acceptance
immediate acceptance

no social effect
no social effect

emotional and identity challenges
emotional and identity challenges

automatic disqualification from sports

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emotional and identity challenges