I’ve wondered. During puberty, my voice dropped to high-male range and I got all the body hair. Tits and period too, unfortunately, although my period has never been regular. I’ve always been much stronger than baseline women too—girls used to complain that my participating in sports was unfair, so I switched to playing with guys. I have a feminine fat distribution, but wide shoulders, male-shaped pelvis (never could find women’s clothes that fit), wide jaw and a prominent brow ridge. Now that I’ve gotten the tits lopped off, I’ve stopped removing my facial hair and I’m growing a patchy beard—but haven’t even started T yet.

They don’t automatically test intersex conditions as a part of the diagnostic process here. Nobody has even asked about the possibility, so far. So it could be PCOS, could be some intersex variation, could be extreme end of normal variation, idk. It would be interesting to know but on the other hand, it would make zero difference, so I’m not planning to get tested as at this point it would just delay starting HRT. I’m very curious about how HRT will affect my body though. Frankly I kind of suspect it might only take me a few months to pass, as I’ve spent most of my adult years stuck in that “four months on T” no-man’s-land where I don’t quite pass as either sex.