@ryanc
Hi
A typo you might want to edit on the post.

"medially transitioned" is presumably meant to be "medically transitioned".

It might be worth making more of the fact that your gender was indeterminate at birth. Assuming that is what you are saying in the sentence regarding doctors being uncertain of your gender at birth.

Anecdote, my mum worked in Obs & Gyne for a few years. I recall her mentioning about 40 years ago that sometimes babies were born with no obvious gender. The doctors then would make a pragmatic decision and alter if they could to swing it one way or the other.

i did research related to reproductive physiology, albeit in animals, and have a paper from years ago looking at freemartins in cattle. Gender ambiguous animals.
Also did work with sheep using abattoir material to understand the hormonal and receptor differences.

I 'pickled' and mounted one tract - ovary and testis,
Below the ovary is on the left and testis right. Picture below...

ALT

@leighms i fixed the typo you mentioned. Re doctors, I was not physically ambiguous at birth, but my puberty was extremely late and relatively mild in its effects.

I've always been fairly androgynous, but the HRT kinda sealed the deal on that.

@ryanc
There are more people born with ambiguous gender than many people realise. Most aren't very open about it because of general ignorance and increasing prejudice.

I gave a talk at a conference in Dublin in the late 80s and touched on this earlier work in the Q and A.

Later a rather prominent scientist confided to me that they had been born as gender ambiguous. As part of their research they had managed to get hold of a very high resolution ultrasound scanner and tried to 'take a peek' to see if they could work out if they had both organs. Unfortunately it is very difficult to get good images with ultrasound and would really need an experienced operator, but they didn't want anyone else involved. This was 1980s Ireland which was very intolerant.