Sunday 20 September 2015
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Caribbean village where girls grow eggplants and morph into boys when they hit puberty
The natives are friendly, there's sandy beaches and the sun beats down often - but there is one peculiarity that sets it apart from the rest of the world.
At puberty one in 90 children born there make a natural transformation from girl to boy.
Referred to as the ‘guevedoces’ which literally translates as ‘penis at 12’ - these children are known in medical terms as 'pseudohermaphrodite' - and feature in a new BBC 2 series called Countdown to Life - the Extraordinary Making of You.
“I remember I used to wear a little red dress,” said Johnny who at 24 was once known as Felecitia and did not have a penis.
“I was born at home instead of in a hospital. "They didn’t know what sex I was.
“I went to school and I used to wear my skirt. I never liked to dress as a girl.
"When they bought me girls toys I never bothered playing with them. All I wanted to do was play with the boys.”The guevedoces were uncovered by Cornell University endocrinologist Dr Julianne Imperato in the 1970s who travelled to the region to learn more about rumours that girls were morphing into boys.
And in the four decades since there have been studies, more has been learned about the perfectly natural condition.
It is not until puberty, when testosterone flows, their voices break and they grow a male sexual reproductive organ that they become recognised as male.
BBC presenter Dr Michael Mosley said:
“I hated going through puberty; voice cracking, swinging moods, older brother laughing at me. But compared to Johnny, I had it easy.
“Guevedoces are also sometimes called “machihembras” meaning “first a woman, then a man.” "When they’re born they look like girls with no testes and what appears to be a vagina.
"It is only when they near puberty that the penis grows and testicles descend.
“When Dr Imperato investigated the Guavadoces she discovered the reason they don’t have male genitalia at birth is because they are deficient in an enzyme called 5-α-reductase, which normally converts testosterone into dihydro-testosterone.
“By a quirk of chance Dr Imperato’s research was picked up by the American pharmaceutical giant, Merck.
"They used her discovery to create a drug called finasteride, which blocks the action of 5-α-reductase.
“It is now widely used to treat benign enlargement of the prostate and male pattern baldness. For which, I’m sure, many men are truly grateful.”
UK Mirror
Photos: Nigerian hollywood actress Uzo Aduba wins second Emmy
While receiving her award, Uzo said thanked her family and her sister, Chioma in particular for being there for her.
"'I really just want to say thank you a thousand times. If I could say thank you a thousand times, it would not be enough. I really just want to say thank you for my family, who have stood beside me my entire life. I am humbled to call myself your sister. I love you so much".
Uzo won outstanding guest actress at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards last year. Big Congrats to her.
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Perspectives on The Travails of Saraki
That Bukola Saraki was keenly and desperately ambitious to become the
Senate President of the 8th National Assembly from the blow of the
whistle was an open secret. To realise his ambition, he capitalised on
apparent error of omission or commission by the All Progressives
Congress leaders on the inauguration day of the National Assembly.
Saraki’s assumption of the mantle of leadership of the Senate was not without blatant defiance of the APC leadership position on the subject matter. It however beat everybody’s imagination no sooner had Saraki been sworn in as Senate President than his wife was questioned by the EFCC. Saraki himself is now in the news for an alleged false asset declaration.
While aspiring for the Senate Presidency, little did Saraki know President Muhammadu Buhari was going to be fully committed to righting the multiple wrongs that had drawn the nation backward socially, politically and economically for decades. Buhari is bent on clearing the cancerous rot in the system and the entire nation and even the whole world is firmly behind him.
The mention of Buhari’s name is the beginning of fear. And the fear of Buhari is the beginning of wisdom in Nigeria. The President has yet to appoint a Minister of Power and electricity supply is significantly improving tending towards relative stability. He has yet to appoint a Minister of Petroleum Resources, yet prices of petroleum products are bowing to the demand of natural deregulation.
Diesel is now being sold for plus or minus N110 per litre. Petrol, in some filling stations, now sell below the official price of N87 per litre. Somebody sometime ago asked Buhari to prove to Boko Haram that he is a soldier. Far beyond the era of having a free day, the insurgents now admit there is fire in the mountain. Who says the Buhari-led APC government is not bringing about unprecedented changes in the land? Any objection against the anti-corruption war being championed by the Buhari government would be strongly resisted by the Nigerian masses. Public office aspirants who admit self-guilt on corruption and whose cardboards are full of incriminating skeletons are advised to steer clear of Buhari’s government as there are no hidden places any longer.
Buhari has constituted a rampaging bulldozer against corrupt Nigerians and downtrodden Nigerian masses, shortchanged for long, are wholeheartedly behind him to succeed.
Matthew Adeleye,
Ota, Ogun State.
I want President Muhammadu Buhari to step in and settle the differences that occured in the All Progressives Congress following the election of Dr Bukola Saraki as the Senate President. The leadership of the All Progressives Congress should accept him. To me, all what is happening to Saraki now was politically motivated by the APC leadership.
In the interest of our country and democracy, Buhari should come in and settle this matter. I am appealing to the APC leadership to embrace peace and leave the Senate President alone.
Oluokun Olusola,
Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo State.
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