# I wonder how our (American) society would treat these kids?

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**Created:** [September 21, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-our-american-society-would-treat-these-kids/732158 "2015-09-21T22:39:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-our-american-society-would-treat-these-kids/732158/1 "2015-09-21T22:39:01Z")

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[http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/boys-who-only-develop-penis-when-they-hit-age-12](http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/boys-who-only-develop-penis-when-they-hit-age-12)

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> When born, to all intents and purposes they appear to be female. But when the children referred to as “Guevedoces” in an isolated village in the Dominican Republic reach puberty, things start to change. They develop muscles, their chests start to grow, and by the age of 12, they sprout testes and a penis.

Before you shout BS, the boys have a rare condition called [5-Alpha Reductase Deficiency](http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/5-alpha-reductase-deficiency).

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**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-how-our-american-society-would-treat-these-kids/732158/2 "2015-09-22T01:59:37Z")

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Ask ‘The Fat Kid’.

Some peers would be nice (while silently thinking ‘moral failure’); other would be less kind.

Good thing we never even heard of this until the WWW came along, isn’t it?