V.B.N., from the Mekong Delta’s Soc Trang Province, was born with male genitalia, said Le Cong Thang, deputy head of the Surgery Department at Ho Chi Minh City’s Children Hospital No.1.
But a chromosome test – known as a Karyotype test – showed that N. is female, Thang said.
N. was then diagnosed as having ambiguous genitalia.
At the same time, a five-year-old child in HCMC was released from the hospital after undergoing sex reassignment surgery.
The child, P.H.N.T., has the appearance of a girl but was born with undescended testicles. A Karyotype test identified T. as male.
In August, Vietnam issued a ruling allowing transvestites, intersex individuals (formerly known as hermaphrodites), and those with congenital defects to have sex changes.
Source: SGGP |
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