Kolkata, India: A 30-year-old woman from India was diagnosed with testicular cancer after being treated for abdominal pain.
Baffled doctors later found out that the woman was a biological man.
After the shocking revelations, the 28-year-old sister of the woman went through some tests, which revealed that they had the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome.
The Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome is a rare condition where a person is born genetically male but has all the physical traits of a woman.
The woman, whose identity was not shared with the public, went to the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Hospital with severe pain in her lower abdomen.
Dr. Anupam Dutta and surgical oncologist Dr. Soumen Das at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Hospital conducted medical tests and found her “true identity”.
Dr. Dutta said:
From her appearance, she is a woman. Starting from her voice, developed breasts, normal external genitalia, everything is that of a woman. However, uterus and ovaries have been absent since birth. She has also never experienced menstruation.
The woman, who is a resident of Birbhum, Kolkata, has been married for the last 9 years.