Man is a creature, on the one hand, intelligent, on the other - endowed with a sufficient number of oddities of various kinds. It happens that everything in it is relatively harmonious and naturally developed. But among people there are also those who have any deviations in the development of their body.
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So, sometimes the development of the body does not follow the traditional path laid by nature, but by some winding paths that sometimes lead to irreversible changes in the human being. A man is no longer a man, but a woman is no longer a woman. And surprisingly, the moment of such changes can happen at any age.
In psychology and medicine there is such a thing as feminization. This is a term that characterizes the change in the dynamics of puberty and somatic development in women or men. This is how he characterizes the clinical syndrome associated with relative or absolute hyperestrogenemia in representatives of the stronger half, as well as the resistance of target organs to androgens.
The term “feminization” itself is a word of Latin origin (femina), which means “woman”. Its synonym is feminism. From the point of view of medicine, the pathology in males is expressed by gynecomastia, the manifestation of female traits in the distribution of subcutaneous tissue and physique. Pathological feminization is not demaskulinization, incomplete embryonic masculinization (viril syndrome), eunuchoidism, hypogonadism.
Even if a subject with a male genetic and gonadal sex has an underdeveloped penis, hypospadias or a vagina with a uterus, it cannot be assigned to a group with pathological feminization. After all, these are all symptoms of incomplete embryonic masculinization. This can happen due to a deficiency of testicular androgens.
Pathology and psychology
Pathological feminization is the development of abnormalities with an absolute or relative excess of estrogens. It can occur with genital insufficiency, lack of testicles, tumors of the adrenal glands, testicles, pituitary gland, adenoma, as well as long-term use of estrogen drugs.
If a person with a male genetic and gonadal sex, even in adulthood, retains a female type of sexual hair growth, they say that sexual development is delayed during puberty. When the proportions of the skeleton are similar to eunuchoid, they are not considered manifestations of feminization. This phenomenon is observed in both sexes, if there is a failure of the gonads.
There is also such a thing as forced feminization of men, boys and boys. This is a phrase that describes the unnatural desire of a male to display female traits that arose as a result of the dominance of another person. Often the cause of this behavior is deficiencies in raising a child in childhood.
