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I dont know if girls here usually have ever had low t hormone issues they had to deal with. I as my doctor know I have very low and I mean very low t levels. It started at puberty. No one really noticed until recently. Someone the other day for example noticed and said something about my shoulders having a more female shape. This didn't bother me ofcourse. I know other areas are more female than male like my arms, hands and or like my waist and tummy area, if I was able to lose some weight, you would see somewhat of an hourglass figure there. It doesnt bother me but does worry me being open to ridicule. In many ways, I do not look as male as others except my face. Really for me, my natural weight is more at a 135 or 140. 160 is what I weight now and that is overweight for me.

I do wonder if other trans girls had the low t hormone thing starting at puberty and if so did it ever get you bullied?

My T was almost non-existent my entire life. I did eventually develop a smithering of facial hair in my 30s, right before I got it all removed. I never got bullied for it. I got crap from other guys about being thin, but they never made reference to my girlish features.

A lot of the crap I got was just something people in the area I grew up in (Philly) do though. People in other parts of the country seem to think we're a bunch of jerks when we open our mouths. So even the smack talk isn't something I would contribute to bullying.

To be factual, I have no idea what my T levels were as a child/young adult. What I can tell you is that back then I could not grow a mustache in HS and I had very little body hair. I was slim and tall and I was mistaken for female many times as a child. I was never bullied, but in grade school all the girls loved me, and the boys stayed away. *shrugs* I have always been more comfortable around girls than boys. Getting back to T-levels, it seems I was a girl's girl ... guess I "smelled" right. It is kind of interesting to think about this now that you bring it up. As a child, the girls were so easy to be friends with and they were attracted to me. In 5th and 6th grade during Valentine's Day I got bunches of cards from the girls. Even at 9 years old the boys seemed too macho for me. I had no desire to befriend them, they seemed too crude. Yet, they girls were there for me. Kisses and all. How strange that seems. My guess as an adult is the young girls felt more comfortable around me. They must have liked the mix of female and male traits. No idea if that's valid, just saying that is what happened. Interestingly enough, never bullied by alpha males, guess I was too cute.  :icon_chick:

Never had it tested, my beard, when short or stubble is sparser, but if grown longer it can still appear full, couldn't pull off short beard when I tried that, so splotchy... Always had abnormally long eyelashes, and been confused for a girl in middle school a couple times. I do also have a slight curve, but I'm still way overweight and it's hard to tell if it'll be there after losing, we'll see, cause I'm well on my way... I can only hope I've had low T, limit some of the damage that was done (again, can't really tell on account of being close to 100lbs overweight) hands are bigger than a girl's, they'll get smaller if I lose weight but I don't imagine by much, maybe just enough to get bracelets that don't open on, they just barely don't fit over my palm now for the most part... My wrist is small, slender fingers, etc...

Regardless won't really know until probably this time next year, when I'm planning to start (trying) to get HRT, and get tested... I suspect lower than most, but not outside normal range

I had high T and people used to give me crap about having feminine features too.  I wasn't really getting bullied though


It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide, Autumn Leaves

Mine was around 250, on the low side for a middle age male, when I started transitioning.  I do know that I went through puberty late (did not even start until after my 14th birthday) and I was never able to grow a full beard -- there were always gaps where hair just would not grow.  And it took only three laser treatments to banish the hair from my neck, chin and cheeks.  The mustache and soul patch on the other hand are pretty stubborn.