Hanoi doctors treat rare case of woman with male genes

Doctors at the Central Military Hospital 108 have successfully performed surgery on a 21-year-old patient with a rare genetic condition — a person born with a female appearance but carrying male chromosomes (46,XY). - 108 Central Military Hospital via Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI: Doctors at the 108 Central Military Hospital in Hà Nội have treated a 21-year-old patient who appeared female but was genetically male as a result of 46,XY disorder of sex development (46,XY DSD) – a rare condition affecting only about 0.01–0.02 per cent of the population.

Registered female at birth and raised as a girl, the patient developed normally during puberty but never menstruated.