Is it possible I am intersex if I apparently have a very wide female pelvic bone and everything else is male? (lemmy.world)

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I was assigned male at birth but have increasingly started to notice over the years that other guys don't have a big notch on either side of their torsos like I do. It's my pelvic bone. I would go to a doctor to see what they had to say but they've seen me plenty of times and said absolutely nothing about being intersex and now I live in a rural conservative area and they don't seem to diagnose the same way in hardly anything that is a conservative third rail. I just seem to have a really wide pelvis just like a female. Everything else seems male. I am a very normal weight so it's not fat tissue - its clearly bone. I just feel gaslit over it and have been trying to gauge perceptions people have of me in my life in order to get on with things. I hate to turn to the internet but this is driving me crazy. I need something to work with, somewhere to start.

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[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 33 points 7 months ago

I think you might want to give these a read:

https://psmag.com/social-justice/our-bones-reveal-sex-is-not-binary

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/13/pelvic-bone-unreliable-in-identifying-gender/

This isn't to dismiss your concerns, but instead to let you know that your pelvis being one way or another, on its own, probably isn't an indication of anything at all.

This doesn't mean you shouldn't consult a doctor to see if they can help you confirm or dispel your worries since this is clearly bothering you, but most importantly, remember - whatever the outcome, there's nothing "wrong" with you.

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