Dr. Marc Breedlove

And so the wolfian ducts don't develop.

The periphery looks like a typical female.

And these individuals, when they're born, often are not identified because the baby's born.

The doctor does that very careful analysis by looking between the legs and says, congratulations, you have a girl.

And they grow up to be girls, undetected.

And they come to a doctor's attention when puberty happens.

And all their classmates are having their period.

but she's not.

And so she'll eventually go to an OBGYN who will first do an exam, a vaginal exam, and he'll notice that the vagina is relatively short because the inner part of the vagina is normally derived from the malaria ducts.

Well, in this woman, in this teenage girl, the malaria ducts never develop because of anti-malarian hormone.

So there'll be no cervix.

that can be seen in the exam, and if he takes blood plasma levels, he'll see that this very feminine looking girl, teenage girl, has very high levels of testosterone.

And presumably testes.

And if he does a karyotype, he'll see that she has an XY karyotype, and yes, there are testes in there, typically in the abdomen, and they're releasing lots of testosterone because there's no negative feedback to tell the brain

you know, hey, you can stop sending signals to the testes now.

In these cases, you can ask, well, what's the sexual orientation of these women?

And the vast majority of them grow up to be straight.

They are attracted to men.

And they might be very, they're often very interested in having a family.

Of course, they can't carry children themselves, but