Thursday, January 19, 2006

Man Or Woman?

I watched TAB TV jus now, and tis was e issue then...

I am pretty surprised at the 2 stories of 2 singaporean females (or males)...

Female 1

She was a popular girl since young, and once when she was having PE when she was primary 6, she had a severe adominal pain... She was admitted to the hospital shortly.

Then the doctor told e mum tt her daughter had a tumour in one of her ovaries, and she needed to go into surgery, if not she would die... Then while the doctor was in the middle of the surgery, the doc was shock to realise e patient doesnt haf a uretrus/uritreus/watever (spelled something lidat, cant be bothered to check spelling), or wat u called a womb... But anyways, doc removed her ovary and operation was successful...

Doc told mum and mum couldnt understand... Mum was only concerned tt her daughter is still alive... Then e girl went to secondary, she grew up very pretty and popular... Her frenz started toking about their 1st time menses incidents... And she wondered y she didnt haf it still... Her frenz consoled her tt it may be due to her cancer... Coz she is still treating it...

And then, later on, her other ovary was taken away and then she cured her cancer...

But becoz shes not havin menses, she always felt tt there was something strange about her body... And felt tt she wasnt a completed woman...

When she turned 21, and was comfortable enuff... She went to tok to her Doc and asked her about it... Then the Doc told her she doesnt haf a womb... And had to run further tests...

And then the news came... Her chromosome was tested and shes a XY... Which means she isnt female, she is a male, genentically... E Y chromosome which defines a male gender was defective... Thus, she was having a female body, but without a womb...

She fell into depression and till today, her mum still didnt understand...

But fortunately for her, when she turned 24, she met the man of her dreams... She told him e truth tt genetically shes a male, and her bf accepted her as who she is and they got married...

Female 2 (E unfortunate case, to me)

Female 2 grew up as a female...

But she started having mustache when she reaches puberty... She had to shave them everyday... Even though she has boobs, she started to grow male genitals... And she is basically like a tom boy... She doesnt act feminine unlike other girls do... So she was bullied, ostracized due to her tom boyness...

Cut things short... Her mum brought her to doc, and again she was diagnoised wif e same prob as e above female... She is not a female, genectically, she is a guy... But her male chromosome was defective, and thus she had a female body...

She had to go thru numerous surgery... To remove her male genitals, remove her ovaries, to remove e source (i cant remember medical terms) tt produces e male hormones... But when they do tt, she loses her source of female hormones as well... And thus she would need to take constant medication (for her female hormones) till she menopause...

She also had to go thru conselling, and to attend courses to become a so called proper female... Basically, they mentioned, to start learning to becum a female from scratch...

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The 2nd one was so much more unfortunate compared to e 1st... At least the 1st managed to find a husband who loves her for e way she is... Though i believed her beauty was a gift to tide her thru her unfortunate life... I do hope that the 2nd can be as lucky as her...

Evelyn (e host for e show) asked a stupid qns in my opinion... She asked, isit possible for a guy who grew up as having a guy's body, actually be female genetically?...

How is tt even possible!!!

For chromosomes (e thing which defines ur gender), females are XX, guys are XY... U cannot develop any male parts or watever if u r a XX (f)... If somehow u do, it means u r a XY (m), tts y it happens... Y is e element for male anyways... So, if u r a XY (m), there will be chances (1 out of 10,000 e doc said), tt Y is defective, and thus, ur X developed and u haf a female (XX) body...

So genetically, it is impossible for a male to haf a male body, grew up as a male, being XX... Becoz if u r XX (f), u do not haf to element to even develop any male reproductive systems...

In e cases tt when u haf both when u r born... It is birth defect... A body defect... Tis is a whole different issue altogether and its more serious and haf to be treated immediately for e baby to survive...

No matter, its kinda scary... Imagine 20 yrs later, u lived ur life as a female and suddenly u realised u r a guy... But i also admired e 1st girl's husband, who compromised on tt fact and also that they wouldnt be able to conceive... He is so ... I duno how to describe him... Other man would simply run away...

I do hope that life is smoother for the 2 ladies now...

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