Isolated Caribbean village where little girls to turn into boys and grow penises when they hit puberty

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Girls in an isolated Caribbean village become male and grow penises when they hit puberty due to a rare genetic disorder.

It is estimated that one in 90 children born in Salinas in the Dominican Republic make the transition by the time they reach 12.

It is so prevalent there that it is no longer considered abnormal and the children are simply referred to as the ‘guevedoces’ – which literally translates as ‘penis at 12’

The children, known as pseudohermaphrodite, are explored in BBC2 series Countdown to Life - the Extraordinary Making of You.