{"id":13882,"date":"2013-06-04T23:07:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T19:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=13882"},"modified":"2013-06-04T23:07:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T19:07:54","slug":"66-year-old-man-discovers-he-is-actually-a-woman-after-visit-to-doctor-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=13882","title":{"rendered":"66-year-old man discovers he is actually a WOMAN after visit to doctor in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ch1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13879\" alt=\"ch1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ch1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ch1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ch1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ch1-468x300.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>A Chinese man who went to the doctors with a swollen stomach was told that he is actually a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The 66-year-old, who even has a beard, had lived his entire life as a man but was told by doctors in Hong Kong that his enlarged abdomen was caused by an ovarian cyst.<\/p>\n<p>Tests revealed the patient suffered two rare genetic disorders that had gone undiagnosed.<\/p>\n<p>They showed the patient had Turner Syndrome, a genetic condition that affects about one in 2,000 baby girls, and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which increases male hormones.<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong Medical Journal, which published the information yesterday, said only six cases of people with both disorders had ever been reported in medical literature.<\/p>\n<p>The patient had grown up an orphan and stopped growing after puberty at the age of 10 and was just 4.5ft tall.<\/p>\n<p>Girls with the disorder have normal female reproductive organs but can suffer with fertility problems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese man who went to the doctors with a swollen stomach was told that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1136],"class_list":["post-13882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-chine","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}