A 17-year-old hermaphrodite in Pakistan is happy to be alive – after receiving medical attention he so desperately needed. According to reports, the teenager was born as a hermaphrodite and her (or his) body was beginning to shut down due a severe hormonal imbalance:
A 17-year-old Pakistani girl, who had been very sick for the past few months and turned into a boy after a sex-change operation, is grateful to be healthy and alive now and said post-operation: 'I don't care about whether I am a boy or a girl as long as I am alive.' Farzana, who was critically ill, was taken to a hospital in Lahore from Rahim Yar Khan city in Punjab province. 'She had been ill for nearly a year and we have had several consultations,' Express Tribune quoted Rehan, a doctor, as saying. 'I had told her parents that she had a rare genetic condition and that she was suffering from a severe hormonal imbalance.' The doctor said: 'Farzana has hermaphrodite genes and we needed to operate on her soon because her body was beginning to shut down.' Farzana's worried father Ishtiaq said: 'The doctor came to us and said that we had the choice to see our daughter die or to see her become our son....
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