When Linda Brodie gave birth to her baby it was a "joyous moment" but a decision made soon after to undertake surgery changed her daughter's life.

The child, known as Carla, was born with ambiguous genitalia. Doctors at first thought the infant was female but tests revealed that while Carla had no female reproductive organs, male gonads were ...

In the intact postpubertal mammal, the hypothalamus secretes gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH), which stimulates the anterior pituitary to release luteinizing hormone (LH). LH stimulates the ...