Glycerol kinase deficiency disabilities, and myopathy, tend to have an added psychological effect on the subject due to the fact that they can set him or her apart from those without GKD. Cryptorchidism, the failure of one or both of the testes to descend to the scrotum, has been known to lead to sexual identity confusion amongst young boys because it is such a major physiological anomaly. Strabismus is the misalignment of one’s eyes. Typically, one is focused but the other is “lazy” and is directed inward or out ward (up and down is less common but does occur). Treatments for Glycerol Kinase
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency an undervirilized male with normal sensitivity to testosterone. If the infant boy is only mildly undervirilized, the hypospadias can be surgically repaired, testes brought into the scrotum, and testosterone supplied at puberty. Management decisions are more difficult for a moderately or severely undervirilized genetic male whose testes are in the abdomen and whose genitalia look at least as much female as male. Male sex can assigned and major reconstructive surgery done to close the midline of the perineum and move the testes into a constructed scrotum. Female sex can be assigned and the testes removed and vagina enlarged surgically. A