(Reprinted in Guyana Chronicle, Sunday 26 May, 2013 "Tales From Way Back When" )
(Guiana Graphic: April 1, 1966 )
‘CAROLINE’, a 65-year-old patient whose a sex abnormality created a stir among doctors and nurses in the New Amsterdam Hospital as she lay dying, was neither male nor female.
A doctor who made his revelation yesterday disclosed that the patient was a victim of the abnormality from birth, and carried around a body that was partly male and
partly female.'
The doctor said that this condition could have been corrected if the patient had sought the necessary operation at the age of about 16, but according to the doctor, when the patient arrived at the hospital in a dying condition, the question of such an
operation was ruled out.
‘Caroline-' Vaughn. of African descent, was born in New Amsterdam, and her only known relative is an adopted son. Persons who regarded Caroline as a woman said: "She wore necklaces and earrings and feminine undergarments". She had long plaits and gave the impression of being a perfect housewife.
However, hospital reports showed that while the upper portion of the body bore the characteristics of a female, the lower limbs resembled those of a man, with undeveloped sex organs.
(Guiana Graphic: April 1, 1966 )
‘CAROLINE’, a 65-year-old patient whose a sex abnormality created a stir among doctors and nurses in the New Amsterdam Hospital as she lay dying, was neither male nor female.
A doctor who made his revelation yesterday disclosed that the patient was a victim of the abnormality from birth, and carried around a body that was partly male and
partly female.'
The doctor said that this condition could have been corrected if the patient had sought the necessary operation at the age of about 16, but according to the doctor, when the patient arrived at the hospital in a dying condition, the question of such an
operation was ruled out.
‘Caroline-' Vaughn. of African descent, was born in New Amsterdam, and her only known relative is an adopted son. Persons who regarded Caroline as a woman said: "She wore necklaces and earrings and feminine undergarments". She had long plaits and gave the impression of being a perfect housewife.
However, hospital reports showed that while the upper portion of the body bore the characteristics of a female, the lower limbs resembled those of a man, with undeveloped sex organs.
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