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http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=39724

Posted on 22 Oct 2005 # IANS

'Man' runs away from hospital after true gender revealed

India News

By Mohammed Shafeeq, Hyderabad: A young man, unable to cope with his doctors declaring he was actually a woman, ran away from a government-run hospital here to avoid embarrassment and social stigma.

Anand, 20, of Bellampally village in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh, came to the Osmania General Hospital here last week complaining of urinary problems that his family suspected to be piles.

He was referred to the Government Maternity Hospital as he was found to have "external ambiguous genitalia" that usually occurs in only one in 100,000 people. He had the abnormality since birth but the family did not give much importance to it.

Anand's condition was revealed after urologists conducted a genitogram and chromosome analysis. Subsequent tests revealed that that Anand had a uterus, ovaries, a fallopian tube and cervix like other women.

Though doctors assured Anand and his mother Anjamma that he can live normally as a woman after surgery, but they were too shocked to accept this.

"They could not come to terms with this reality and left without informing us," said a doctor.

Embarrassed over the media attention and unable to decide on the future, Anand and Anjamma returned home Friday. They are now planning to shift elsewhere to avoid social stigma.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1271973,curpg-1.cms

Anand becomes Anandi at twenty

[ Sunday, October 23, 2005 02:52:19 amTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
HYDERABAD: After living like a boy for 20 years, Anand is changing into a girl. Doctors, however, have told his family that it is not unnatural but only uncommon. "This happens because of a genetic abnormality but the person who is experiencing this is naturally confused and traumatised," doctors said.

Seeing him transform into a woman has also traumatised his parents. Anand, 20, a native of Bellampally, Adilabad district, was admitted in Government Maternity Hospital, Nayapul, two days ago for some genetic tests.

His mother Anjamma told the doctors that Anand has been acting like a girl with his physical appearance beginning to resemble a woman's. Added to that, his menstrual cycle has shocked all family members. The doctors who conducted tests found that except for having a penis, Anand has all the genetic qualities of a female.

His body has developed breasts, ovaries, no y-chromosome and all other genetic parts that a woman has, besides having chromosomes pattern of X. When the doctors initially informed Anjamma on Thursday about her son becoming a female, she refused to believe it.

"She was consoled a lot and counselled to have the courage to accept Anand as he had turned into," said the doctors. According to Anjamma, Anand was born in the Government Maternity Hospital, Sultan Bazar. At that time doctors were not able to determine the sex of the infant because he had a male organ and also had physical features of a girl.

The medical staff was in a dilemma for sometime but later declared that the infant was a boy. Since then Anjamma treated the baby as a boy and Anand grew up as a male. But over the years, the parents discovered that Anand was behaving like a girl.

Anand studied in a boys school in the village up to class VII. But, as boys made fun of Anand because of his physical features, his parents stopped sending him to school after class VII.

According to Dr B Kalidas, resident medical officer-1, Government Maternity Hospital, Nayapul, Anand is a woman and said 'she' could lead a perfect marital life as a female without any problem. "The clitoris had developed in her due to which doctors might have failed to determine her sex when she was born.

Only a surgery is needed to cut the penis-like clitoris and she also requires some treatment. The surgery is possible in our hospital itself," he said. The medical confirmation of the gender change and the fear of social stigma upset Anand a lot.

She refused food and treatment when informed about the exact gender. "Even before we could suggest any more medical help, Anand and her mother went away home. We are ready to do surgery free of cost whenever they come," Kalidas said.

[Priestess]

I've felt much the same, sometimes. I had a lot of things to adjust to.