Get To Know the Gender Double-Closer

Double sex is not a disease but rather a disorder of sexual development that are able to affect the sexual development of the child.

Double genital or ambiguous genitals is a rare condition in which the appearance of the genital organs of the new baby is born it is not clear whether female or male. Normally, double direct abnormalities can be identified soon after the baby is born. However, there is also that can be diagnosed before birth, although this rarely happens.

Do you know if the doubles turned out to be identifiable gender into several types, namely:

• Double have sex because it has ovaries and testes with the external genitals that do not clear whether male or female.
• Double have sex because it has ovaries and a from of external genitalia that resembles a penis.
• Double have sex because it has external female genitalia (including the vulva) and the testes do not descend into the scrotum. So the testicles sac does not contain the testes.

 

Why Double Sex Happen?

Double sex can occur if during pregnancy there is a thing that is not running normally to interfere with the development of the sex organs of the fetus, for example:

• Lack of male hormones on the fetus is female.
• An excess of male hormones on the fetus is female.
• Mutations in a particular gene.
• Chromosome abnormalities.
• Genetic disorders.
• On certain medications while pregnant.
• The presence of a tumor on the mothers when being pregnant.
• The lack of production of certain hormones. This can cause the embryo to develop with a female body type, regardless of genetic sex.

 

Female or Male?

If genetically the child turned out to have sex girl, sex double sign can be observed through:

• The clitoris enlarges until it looks like a small penis.
• Possibility of fused labia and looks like a scrotum.
• The opening of the urethra (where urine comes out) could be along, above, or below the surface of the clitoris.
• Sometimes feels there is a lump in tissue that fused labia, make it look like a scrotum with testicles.
• Infants often are considered male-sex with the testes do not descend.

And if the child is genetically male, double sex signs can be seen from.

• The size of his penis is small (less than 2 or 3 cm) to look like an enlarged clitoris and urethral opening closer to the scrotum.
• There is the possibility of separate small scrotum and labia look like.
• The opening of the urethra can be along, above, or below the penis. It is also located in the perineum (the area between the anus and scrotum or vulva) to make babies like women-sex.
• The testes do not descend and empty scrotum to look like the labia, accompanied with or without a small penis.

 

Double Sex Becomes Single Sex

Double sex can affect the psychological and social well-being, not only for parents but also on the child when he's big in the future. Because of the complex and lack of a case of thus happening, until it needs to be form one team doctor specifically to handle this condition. The team consist of a pediatrician, pediatric urologists, surgeons care newborn, child general surgeons, physician expert's gland, endocrine system and genetic expert, doctors and psychologists.

Surgery an option in dealing with cases of double sex. For example, by moving the testicles do not descend into the scrotum, separating the fused vulva, or shrink the clitoris. The operation was carried out of course after the examination of the child first. Parents can decide "have" girl or boy, of course after a long discussion with team doctors and see the test results.

Most medical experts recommend that if surgery is done early so that the gender of the child is clear and makes children feel part of society. There are also community groups who suggested that waiting for the operation until the child is mature enough to decide.

In addition to surgery, children also need hormone therapy when they are teenagers. Use to help them undergo puberty. And don't miss, counseling for parents and children themselves.

Double genital treatment is done not only for the sake of social welfare as well as psychological but also physical health. Why? Because a double sex can cause infertility, problems with sexual function, increases the risk of some types of cancer, until discomfort about gender identity.

Double sex can indeed be resolved with surgery. However, it should not be decided by carelessly and without careful consideration, because this concerns the attention of living children from small to parents later.