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Quote:Chinese couple mistook son for a girl for 13 years
AFP (Agence France-Presse) reported on March 15, 2004 that a Chinese couple reportedly raised their only child for 13 years in the belief the child was a girl, until a visit to the local hospital alerted them to the fact that he was really a boy. AFP quoted Chinese state media (Zhengzhou Evening News) reports that said the unidentified couple from the central city of Zhengzhou were fooled by their child's underdeveloped sexual organs. They dressed him in girl's clothes and taught him to go to female public toilets. They did not realize anything was wrong until they were baffled by a "reaction in the lower half of his body" whenever he watched pretty women on TV. The worried parents took their child to the hospital, where a physical check-up corrected their mistake about the child's sex. Doctors concluded that he was suffering from a rare disease causing sexual organs to be somewhat hidden from view, and the boy was subsequently treated in a three-hour-long, successful operation.