An Australian man who discovered he was intersex in his 50s has revealed the main symptom he experienced before diagnosis.<\/p>\n
Intersex describes bodies that don\u2019t fit the typical male\/female categories, affecting about 1\u20132 in 100 people. It can involve mixed genitalia, internal organs, or chromosomes like XXY instead of XY or XX.<\/p>\n
Rob Wilson, a poultry farmer, was born with both male and female genitals. At three days old, doctors operated to close his vagina. He lived as a man, taking testosterone from age eight and undergoing multiple surgeries, but suffered back pain and unknowingly menstruated internally, causing dangerously high iron levels.<\/p>\n
Rob only learned the truth when his dying aunt revealed he was born with a rare chromosomal condition, 48,XXXY, found in 1 in 17,000\u201350,000 males. The revelation explained his lifelong symptoms.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy parents never spoke about it,\u201d Rob said. \u201cDad just said, \u2018Rob\u2019s different, but there\u2019s nothing wrong with him.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
He now travels to Ukraine for hormone treatment and believes his condition may trace back to Nazi experiments on his father, a WWII prisoner of war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An Australian man who discovered he was intersex in his 50s has revealed the main symptom he experienced before diagnosis. Intersex describes bodies that don\u2019t fit the typical male\/female categories, affecting about 1\u20132 in 100 people. It can involve mixed genitalia, internal organs, or chromosomes like XXY instead of XY or XX. Rob Wilson, a…<\/p>\n