A TEENAGED boy who checked into a Kenyan hospital with stomach pains last week collapsed when doctors told him he was actually a woman and was suffering from menstrual cramps. The 18-year-old boy has a vagina, but never knew because there was a membrane covering it, said district medical officer Dr John Ogange of the Meru General Hospital in Nairobi. He said the teenager was unconscious for several days. When he woke up, he decided to undergo surgery to remove his penis and become a woman, because he’d always felt more comfortable being feminine. The operation was performed last week and was the second sex change operation ever held in Kenya. The first sex change was performed in 1988. Dr Ogange said the teenager would only be released once he and his family had undergone intensive counselling. – African Eye News Service