A woman in China, who failed to get pregnant after 12 months of trying, got the shock of her life after discovering she was actually born a man and is intersex.

The woman, whose external female genitalia never forced her to question her sex, found herself to be man when she went to a hospital seeking treatment for her injured ankle, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported. 


 

The discovery emerged following an X-ray which revealed that her bones had not developed past the age of adolescence, but also explained why she had never had a period and failed to get pregnant with her husband. She said she’d turned a blind eye to it out of embarrassment.

A hospital doctor told the SCMP that the patient was now mulling her future as she reconsiders her gender identity.   


 

he woman, whose name was given as Pingping, had a genetic test which revealed she had a condition called '46 XY Karyotype', a pattern normally found in males who have genitalia that is not clearly male or female. 

Because the woman had seemingly female organs, she had never questioned her sex, and had turned a blind eye to the fact she had never menstruated. 


When her mother took her to a doctor as a child, she was told that she might simply be developing more slowly than others. 

"After I grew up, I found this issue quite embarrassing so I didn’t treat it seriously," she was quoted telling the news outlet.    

But the doctors who looked at her ankle were struck by her underdeveloped bones and investigated further - bringing forth the surprising result.