A TEACHER was stunned to find out that she was genetically a man after living as a woman for 25 years, Nanyang Siang Pau reported.

The woman, known only as Zhang from China's Hubei province, was reported to be very attractive with many men wanting to date her.

Recently, she went to the hospital to check why she never had her period as she planned to get married and have babies.

She was told that she was a hermaphrodite with sexual organs of both sexes.

An ultrasound showed that Zhang had a vagina but no womb.

It also found two shadows in her abdomen that were believed to be testicles.

Doctors further confirmed that Zhang was a man according to chromosomes; and performed a surgery to remove her testicles as she chose to live as a woman.

Zhang can have sexual relations but can never get pregnant.