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In this remote village, some boys don’t grow a penis until they’re 12

As covered by Michael Mosley in the new BBC series, Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You, the remarkable case of the Guevedoces is a condition that affects just over 1 percent of the boys born in Salinas, a remote village lying in the southwest of the Dominican Republic.

Guevedoces (literal translation “penis at 12”) appear to be completely female at birth and are brought up to be little girls.

“When they’re born, they look like girls with no testes and what appears to be a vagina,” writes Mosley for The Telegraph. “It is only when they near puberty that the penis grows and testicles descend.”

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