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Ok I know I was a downer earlier on my other forum. I told my wife the truth about my heart complications and I already talked to my doctor not too long ago  about what would happen if I would take hormones and surgeries etc... and I can't do it because of my heart . My wife was worried about me cause knows that I wanted to go through the transition. She told me I know you're a man you don't have to prove anything to me. She is so understanding love her to death. But here's the weird part the structure of my skull is a full grown males head it was measured at my doctor's.  When I hit puberty um I grew stomach hair like a male and a little bit of facial hair I'm not talking about dark peach fuzz either and my voice is deeper than most women's. So I had a lot of waxing to do growing up I kept this a secret for along time. When I hit my mid 20's I was on my own health insurance plan and finally went to the doctors to check myself for  this hair growth. They did a hormone test and my body creates a higher level of testosterone. But I guess this is normal for me because the doctors told me that I going to have to deal with it cause my estrogen levels were normal they couldn't give me anymore estrogen because of other conditions I have. So I'm ftm, is this why I have the mind of a man or are my parents not telling me something that I should have known about? My wife told me to bind my chest and to "pack" like I do and that if that's as far as I can go through transitioning that's fine. I told her I won't talk about suicide anymore and that this is as far as I can go for myself with transition I accept it and I don't want to do something stupid and miss out on our marriage and the family that we're going to have for something I have no control over. I'm not going to lose my life over this.

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You could have PCOS which is causing the masculine traits like the facial hair and such. It may be a good idea to have your doctor look into that too.

Get a second opinion about hormones and surgery, there are people with heart conditions that transition.

yes,it could be PCOS..it could also be Congenital adrenal hyperplasia ..XX female (https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.springerimages.com%2FImages%2FSpringer%2FPUB%3DSpringer-Verlag-Berlin-Heidelberg%2FJOU%3D00431%2FVOL%3D2009.168%2FISU%3D7%2FART%3D2008_847%2FMediaObjects%2FWATER_431_2008_847_Fig1_HTML.jpg&hash=0b2b0f5c88b910d2311bc3c1ea1ff50b6e9e3c25)

Consult Endo,but I think you can undergo transition.After bottom surgery,your testosterone dose will be lower.