The different kinds of female-assigned pelves

[Stealthy]

('Pelves' is the plural of 'pelvis'. You learn something new every day, huh?)

So, you know how female-assigned pelves are the wide pelves that flare out everywhere, right?

Wrong.

There are actually four different kinds of female-assigned pelves.

Gynecoid is the traditional type-the only one represented when people talk of 'female pelvic structure'-and technically the most common...but only anywhere from 40% to 50% of female-assigned people actually have a gynecoid pelvis. That leaves 50-60% of us with something other than that.

The one that has the most relevance to us is the android pelvis, which is pretty close to being a male-assigned pelvis...and one-third of white female-assigned people and one-sixth of female-assigned people of colour have an android pelvis.

That's roughly 33% and 17%! It's not exactly rare. There's a pretty decent chance that you, yes, YOU have one of those. 

[Jeatyn]

I was told by my midwife that I have a very male shaped pelvis, she basically told me good luck with giving birth, because it was going to be really hard for me xD Both good news and bad news all in the same sentence.

[insideontheoutside]

Interesting. I had no idea.

[Darth_Taco]

What are the other two? o.o Regardless, I know for a fact I have a very wide pelvis XP. Oh well, I do my best not to let it bother me. I just remind myself that I can't be the only guy in this situation. I know for a fact that there's biological men with a pelvis similar to mine. Not exactly the same, but close enough where I know I'll be ok.

[Ayden]

I wish I had one of the others. Its Marilyn Monroe curves for this guy. -_-

[Mosaic dude]

Ah, this would explain a few things.  I've known since my uni days that sexing a skeleton using the pelvis is difficult and has a large error rate, but I didn't know why.

Sadly, I did not win the pelvis lottery.

[anibioman]

anyone know how you can tell what youve got?

[ozoozol]

Wikipedia says: "Caldwell and Moloy also classified the physique of women according to their types of pelves: the gynaecoid type has small shoulders, a small waist and wide hips; the android type looks square-shaped from behind; and the anthropoid type has wide shoulders and narrow hips."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_pelvis#Caldwell-Moloy_classification

Beats me if that's accurate...

Examples:   http://www.medivisuals.com/pelvictypes-399072-01x.aspx

[anibioman]

i think i might be android or anthropoid my hips and my chest are the same around (36") and my shoulders are bigger (42") so do i count as square or broad shoulders with narrow hips?

[Natkat]

pre T I had more or less same size hips and shoulders, now I got wider shoulders than my hips.
my shoulders are around 10 centimeters bigger than my hips last time I checked, I dont know about know.
I have an awfull small waist.

what dose that make me?

[mangoslayer]

Sadly, i have huge hips. My shoulders are pretty big too, but my hips are really wide.

[peky]

('Pelves' is the plural of 'pelvis'. You learn something new every day, huh?)

So, you know how female-assigned pelves are the wide pelves that flare out everywhere, right?

Wrong.

There are actually four different kinds of female-assigned pelves.

Gynecoid is the traditional type-the only one represented when people talk of 'female pelvic structure'-and technically the most common...but only anywhere from 40% to 50% of female-assigned people actually have a gynecoid pelvis. That leaves 50-60% of us with something other than that.

The one that has the most relevance to us is the android pelvis, which is pretty close to being a male-assigned pelvis...and one-third of white female-assigned people and one-sixth of female-assigned people of colour have an android pelvis.

That's roughly 33% and 17%! It's not exactly rare. There's a pretty decent chance that you, yes, YOU have one of those. 

pelvises is preferred (although an alternate is pelves). From the American Heritage Dictionary
Source(s):
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dic...