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vamptastic · 3 months ago

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saw a post of someone unironically claiming there is some large conspiracy of cis women with PCOS identifying as transfeminine... so out of touch. ime the vast majority of people with PCOS are cis women who are offended to even be considered intersex. online spaces focused on PCOS are kinda transphobic and mostly focus on weight loss and restoring your natural (read: female) hormonal balance and whatnot. like sorry but the vast vast majority are not doing that. and i trust the few ones who do to have a legitimate connection to the term.

#hell every doctor ive seen about it has said that every other PCOS patient they have has been a cis woman #the most common reason ppl get diagnosed is investigating fertility issues #like it's partially a consequence of nobody giving a shit about ' women's ' health but like #the community is not uhhhh in touch with trans issues enough for this to be a big thing #the most you'll see is in the more progressive spaces someone might say they can RELATE to trans women bc of their symptoms #but it's mostly only ppl that already consider themselves queer for other reasons that would also #say they're transfem bc of their PCOS #and also it's a pretty broad spectrum of symptoms- you don't even need hyperandrogenism to be diagnosed #so like the people who consider themselves transfem are probably on the far end of that spectrum and have obvious intersex traits #unlike for instance myself who just had a bit of a mustache and more body hair than normal pre-T #idk man it's just such an out there strawman #like that shrimply is Not Happening. there's gotta be less than a thousand people doing that

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