Doctors choose sex for hermaphrodite baby

Doctors face a very difficult dilemma – they have to decide which sex to choose for a newborn child.
The parents of the unusual baby are trying not to interfere in the doctors’ decision-making process. The young couple is just praying to God to help the experts on genetics make the right decision and not break the life of their long-awaited baby.
The family of Muscovites - Sergey and Olga - has been waiting for their baby for a long time. Sergey was very happy when the doctors told them that Olga was pregnant.
Olga, 20, had a very easy pregnancy. She was working as long as she could, and her colleagues would have her labour at the workplace.
The child’s sex was not actually important for the parents.
Olga even asked the doctors not to tell her the sex of her child.
“We wanted it to be a surprise. We wanted this child so much,” Olga says.
The child was born in time.
The young mother almost burst into tears when she heard the first cry of her child. However, Olga could not understand why doctors did not bring the baby to her. A few hours later the doctor came to Olga’s ward and tried to explain that her child was a　hermaphrodite. The newborn child had both female and male traits.
“Doctors say the child is half a girl and half a boy at the same time. They also say that the child can successfully be formed either as a boy or as a girl,” Sergey says.
Five days after the labour, Olga checked out from the hospital, but her baby was put to the　pathology department, Life.Ru reports.
Now experts are waiting for the results of the genetic examination.
“In this particular case only genetics can say for sure which type of development, male or female, the child’s organism is more prone to.
We are going to love our baby in any case,” Sergey says.
According to the experts, in this case the main thing is not to be mistaken with the genetic predisposition of the child's organism.
There is nothing difficult in the medical operation to form the child’s sex.
“There were cases when an androgynous child was brought up as a boy, but when he became a teenager, he started to feel like a girl,” doctors say.


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＊要約＊
物理的に男性の性質と女性の性質を持った子供が生まれてくるということがあった。モスクワ在住のセルゲイと妻のオルガは生まれてくる赤ちゃんの性別にこだわりが無く、生まれてくるまで男の子か女の子か知らせないよう医者に依頼していた。
出産当日、特に問題なく出産が進められて無事に赤ちゃんが生まれたのだが、数時間後、産まれてきた子どもは男性の性質と女性の性質を両方持っていることを告げられ、男の子として育てるのか女の子として育てるのか選択を迫られた。
出産から5日後にオルガは退院したが、赤ちゃんは現在も遺伝子調査などで病院に残っており、現在結果を待っている状態のようだ。
専門家によると子どもの性別を決める手術自体はそれほど難しいものではないようだが、「子どもの性別をどちらにするのか」という選択は親にとって非常に難しいものだと思われる。

＊単語＊
dilemma..........ジレンマ
newborn child....生まれたばかりの子供
genetics.........遺伝学
pregnancy........妊娠
particular.......特定
predisposition...傾向

＊感想＊
今までもこんなことを聞いたことはあったけれど、作り話だと思っていました。実際にそんな人がいるなんて驚きました。この際、３つ目の性別として扱ってもいいのではないでしょうか。