66-year-old Chinese man goes to doctor, finds out he's a woman
Beijing: In a shocking discovery, a 66-year-old "apparently" male patient in Hong Kong found himself to be a woman when he went to a hospital seeking treatment for abdominal swelling. Doctors found that the the swelling was a cyst on his ovary and he was in fact a woman.
The case was reported by doctors from Hong Kong's Kwong Wah Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, who treated the patient. It was published in the Hong Kong Medical Journal on Monday, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.
"The patient, by definition, is a woman who cannot get pregnant. But she also has congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), which gave her the appearance of a man," Chinese University paediatrics professor Ellis Hon Kam-lun said.
Eh, nothing I haven't heard before. Medical conditions that cause confusion of sex, or in cases of infants sex assignment or reassignment, aren't that uncommon. I imagine they come as a shock to patients who are unaware before hand, but due to the status of gender as a social construct, sex is really unimportant if nobody knows your biological sex isn't your gender. It would only really be a factor in relationships.
I think the article is vague and misleading. Nowhere did it mention the man having male genitalia, and even if he did, then the article neglects to comment on the fact that it therefore would have to have been surgically constructed at birth.
