Discover the Caribbean Island Where Young Girls Transition into Boys

There has always been some sort of mystery attached to the subject of gender and the Caribbean village of Salinas is a prime example of the ambiguities of gender.

At least one in 90 children born in the village located in the Dominican Republic will have made the genetic transition by the time they reach 12 years old. All babies in the womb, whether male or female, have internal glands known as gonads and a small bump between their legs called a tubercle. But for some male babies, the missing 5-α-reductase enzyme – which triggers the hormone surge – means they appear to be born female with no testes and what looks very much like a vagina.

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