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Beyond Gender

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)
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)