In Popular Culture
In the Nip/Tuck season three episode "Quentin Costa", it is revealed that Dr. Quentin Costa had 5-ARD.
Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer Prize-winning 2002 novel Middlesex is about a young man with 5-ARD. The character was originally born Calliope and raised as a girl, but upon realizing his true biological sex, he transitions into Cal. Eugenides himself does not have the deficiency.
Read more about this topic: 5-alpha-reductase Deficiency
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