Her Maternity Test Came Back Negative and No One Could Figure Out Why

A Made Mosaic

This kind of chimerism is known as ovotesticular disorder of sex development. In other words, she was intersex and competed with male tissue. She was called a gentic mosaic for her mixed chromosomes. But her secrets were still being exposed…

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.