Quote from: cindy16 on December 30, 2014, 04:12:44 AM
... I was always considered the most shy and sensitive one in my family, was much better at handling infants than any other male I know of, was really bad at sports and teased for 'throwing like a girl', have features like the elbow angle, digit ratio and wider hips than shoulders which are supposedly feminine. Since I was bookish, it probably helped explain away some of the behavioral things.
It does look like you could have some kind of intersex thing going on there, which would explain the gender dysphoria. Here's a list of characteristics I put together for "eunuchoid habitus" (which is a type of body structure that often develops in people with intersex conditions).
* long, slender arms and legs
* a leg length that's significantly greater than the height of your upper body (the two should be about equal in men)
* an armspan 3cm or more greater than your height.
* sparse or very fine body hair
* a female "escutcheon" or pubic hair pattern (like an upside down triangle and confined to the pubic region)
* an inability to build upper body muscle
* feminine facial features and a generally feminine appearance (soft chubby features rather than hard muscular ones; gracile bone structure etc).
* gynecomastica
other things such as a female carrying angle, female digit ratio, absence of acne as a teenager, long, lushious eyelashes (in my case anyway). Basically you end up looking a bit like a cross between a man and a woman. It's much more noticeable during your teens and twenties; after that, testosterone (even at below normal male levels) is likely to have masculinised your body to the point where you tend to just blend in with ordinary men. The unusual bodily proportions will still be there though, since your bones have stopped growing by the time you're aged about 20.
Other things are having small, hard testicles (which could mean you're XXY), or your mother being given hormone treatment while she was pregnant with you (this, although very few doctors are likely to admit to it, is a common cause of intersex-related abnormalities and transness too).
If you do have the things in that list then I'd suggest going to a doctor and having a full set of blood work done, since it can help to narrow down what's happened to you, and should also show whether your testosterone levels have fallen to the point where your health could be affected. Unfortunately, T levels tend to fall as you get older, so, if you start off from already low T levels, there's an increasing risk that it could start to affect your health as time goes by (of course if you are trans, then going on female HRT will avoid that particular problem, since estradiol replaces T as far as your body is concerned).
