Health and Science Beyond Gender WUFT | By Andrea Cornejo Published December 27, 2017 at 10:00 AM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Carlos Terrero Terrero of Las Salinas de Barahona, Dominican Republic, was born with a 5-alpha-reductase deficiency, which causes children to have ambiguous genitalia at birth due to a missing enzyme that disrupts the production of dihydrotestosterone. (Drea Cornejo/WUFT News)