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[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also, it's important to emphasize that males with PMDS have normal male genitals - meaning a penis with male urethra and testes - and all the other male repro organs like prostate and vas deferens too. Though their testes might be undescended, their testes are normally formed and functional in terms of producing male levels of T; and whilst some persons with PMDS have fertility issues, others produce viable sperm as well.

In other words, males with PMDS have a couple of extra parts they're not supposed to have because there was a failure in utero in the signals that should have caused disappearance of Mullerian structures. But they are not missing any repro organs, nor do they necessarily have marked - or any - physiological dysfunction.

Also, the uterus and Fallopian tubes that males with PMDS are usually rudimentary, under-developed or undeveloped and undersized.

https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/8435/persistent-mullerian-duct-syndrome