I am a post-operative male to female transsexual. Before my operation, I had what appeared to be a seam-like scar which ran down the length of my phallus; all the way down my scrotum; straight through the perineum. I still have a straight scar which I've had all my life that runs from my belly button to my pubic area. It's all in a straight line.
It's possible for a normal male to have what's known as a raphe which runs down the scrotum since everyone is open in that area in utero. My "raphe' ran the length of my entire phallus, scrotum, and my perineum to my anus. Also, my straight line birthmark from my belly button to my pubic area?
There are no baby pictures of me under three months of age; none. Some of my early infancy clothes were girl's clothes; ruffle and everything. When I asked my mother if I was intersexed at birth, she swears I wasn't. It's possible for people who are born intersexed not to know. Some doctors will operate on a girl with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome after lying to the parents about her condition by claiming she has cancer of the ovaries. The birthmark/scars on my lower abdomen; former genitalia; and current perineum are coming to mind lately given that I recently got a pet cat spayed. Her gonads were removed and there is now a straight scar running down the length of her lower abdomen.
I've never seen the original copy of my birth certificate; my newborn clothes were girl's baby clothes(ruffled); there are no pictures of me before three months of age; and I have these marks on certain parts of my anatomy which appear in straight, unbroken lines. I know chromosomes are only one component in the make-up of one's sex/gender, so my chromosome test a number of years ago carried out for the purpose of determining whether or not I had Klinefelter's Syndrome showing that I had a normal male karyotype may not tell the entire story. There are people who have developed into complete females with normal male karyotypes. There was a six year old girl in Europe who had Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, around ten years ago, that was discovered to have had a set of ovaries in her body. An exploratory operation proved this. The doctors didn't believe they were going to function well, though. This child was chromosomally male. Most women and girls with that condition have internal testes.
It looks like there are a good number of people who were born intersexed who either weren't told by their doctors and/or parents or simply never ended up with a diagnosis.
The marks on my body may be nothing. They could be peculiar looking birthmarks or something else. Maybe my parents felt some silly need to dress their newborn son in girl's baby clothes, and decided to throw the pre-three month old baby pictures away for no reason at all. You never know, but it looks like I am going to continue wondering about this issue for the rest of my life. I'm still a human being and I still have a strong transgender/gay/q*** identity which I will keep for the rest of my life. I will always identify in this way even if it transpires that I was born in between sexes.