The process of sex differentiation ensures that human fetuses are born with distinct external & internal genitalia (which is used to assign their sex at birth).
However, in a small town in the Dominican Republic, a community known as the "Guevedoces" (translating to "penis at twelve") undergo a different process of sex differentiation.
Many of them are brought up girls due to the absence a penis & testes & the presence of a vagina.
When puberty approaches, some of their male sexual organs grow, and their biological sex is reassigned as male according to their genitalia.
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