(22-08-2013, 03:27 AM)Missed Miss Wrote:   (22-08-2013, 03:21 AM)MonikaT Wrote:  PAIS = Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
To some degree, their bodies don't respond to androgens like testosterone.  I would be interested to know if these boys have fully-developed genitalia and if they are fertile.
As far as I recall, they are fully functional males, they just have a VERY "bad" case of gynemastasia (Is that the correct word?)
Yes.  And a highly localized form of PAIS can cause that.  And they would otherwise still be fully functioning male.
BTW...  CAIS above, a clarification, they aren't fertile.  They only have the EXTERNAL characteristics, all the male-ish equipment is still inside, just never develops, like, at all, but pumps out tons and tons of hormones.  They'll actually have higher serum levels of T than ANYONE else.  Their body just doesn't respond.  Responds to the estrogens it winds up aromatising to though, thus the fully feminized externals.