Article: The secret no doctor would tell me: for my entire life, I thought I was female. At age 31, I learned the shocking truth. (my story).(effect of androgen insensitivity syndrome on one woman's life)

BY ANONYMOUS, AS TOLD TO JUDY DUTTON

When I was born, the doctors thought they'd delivered a baby girl. But when I was 2, my parents brought me to the hospital because I had what looked like a hernia; physicians there found that the pain was caused by a testis in my abdomen.

A testis? That's just in men, right? Not if you have what I do. I was born with an intersex condition--a combination of male and female reproductive organs. In addition to the testis, I had a clitoris and the lower half of a vaginal canal, but no upper vagina, cervix, ovaries, or uterus. After removing the testis, the doctors decided not to tell my parents the truth about my ...

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