22-Year-Old Woman Whose Period Is Long Overdue Finds Out She Is Actually a Man

For ordinary people, gender is very clear and understandable, whether in one's subconscious or in the eyes of others. However, Xiaoyun (a pseudonym), 22 years old this year, can't figure out why she was told by the doctor that she is not a girl but a man. This turn of events shocked her like being struck by lightning. The hospital found out that she was actually a male.

Yesterday, at the Department of Plastic Surgery of Anhui Medical University First Affiliated Hospital, I met Xiaoyun's attending doctor. The doctor introduced that because she never had menstruation, Xiaoyun came to the hospital for treatment. After taking an X-ray, however, they got a result that no one expected - the doctors found that Xiaoyun did not have a uterus, ovaries, or vagina.

This news shocked Xiaoyun greatly. In fact, there was nothing unusual about her since childhood, and she has been quite healthy from childhood to adulthood. It's just that her physiological development differs from that of normal girls; she is already 22 years old but has never had a period. At first, her family didn't think it was too serious, thinking that the child might just develop late. However, this unintentional examination revealed a shocking result.

Later, Xiaoyun underwent further detailed examinations, and the results were even more astonishing - Xiaoyun is actually a male with male XY chromosomes.

Thought herself as a girl for 22 years

When Xiaoyun was born, her reproductive organs were female, and her family raised her as a daughter all along. "She has long hair, and from the appearance, there is no difference between her and normal girls, except that her voice is a bit coarse," Xiaoyun's attending doctor told the reporter.

According to the introduction, she always thought she was a girl from childhood to adulthood. Until puberty, she discovered that her classmates of the same age had already started developing, but she had not developed at all and also never had a period, which caused her considerable distress for a while. But Xiaoyun believed that her external genitalia were female, and having lived for 22 years with everyone knowing she was a woman, she chose to continue living as a female. The Department of Plastic Surgery at Anhui Medical University Second Affiliated Hospital performed breast augmentation and vaginoplasty on Xiaoyun to restore her female identity. "She probably needs to be hospitalized for another two weeks. After the surgery, her physical characteristics can be restored to those of a female, and she can have sexual intercourse," the doctor told the reporter.