The more I read TIM posts the more convinced I am that they legitimately believe women with PCOS typically look like males.

Exactly this.

And also, lots of women with PCOS don't have excessive hair growth — not that these TIMs know that. I have lots of cysts on my ovaries and extremely irregular and lengthy periods, but I don't have facial hair bar a very normal bit of fuzz on my top lip. No one is ever going to mistake me for anything but female, and I have never met a woman even with facial hair who didn't look obviously female.

To hear these goofballs tell it, the extra testosterone from PCOS makes women the bearded ladies in Ringling PLUS those funny-mustached strongmen. It doesn't jibe with their claim that lowering their testosterone to a level that still dwarves your max instantly turns their bodies to porcelain. I've dated a girl with PCOS and another platonic friend has it as well. All I noticed was a few small chin hairs she'd shave off here and there; only knew my other friend had it b/c she mentioned it when talking with girl I dated.

The idea she could molly-whop me by building up some PCOS power source like Bruce Banner off a gamma ray burst is hilarious. These people are truly so disconnected from everything and don't care who they drag down in this process. These are the folks who think "butch" lesbians or traditionally "masculine" women were virtually indistinguishable from men because they wore pants or had a short haircut or something. I am confident that women who were never questioned about bathrooms or pronouns before have only had this happen now b/c of these loons.

I hate how I can never tell if these people are bots, teenagers, bad actors, or genuine, but severely autistic folks. I think a lot of the insanity makes more "sense" when you imagine the intent is to upend everything and dissolve every category and structure so nothing is ordered. Upside down world is getting tiring.

He outright says

I feel bad about lying because I know real people suffer from it

"Real people" is such a strange turn of phrase here. "Real people" as opposed to what? The imaginary ones in his head? Or did what's left of his conscience want him to say "real women" and he corrected that to "real people"?

He should feel bad.

Still plenty of people who are completely unexposed to TIPs and take encounters like this in good faith

Just another reminder that these fuckheads are perfectly willing to spread misinformation about conditions that can seriously impact the lives of people and are already poorly understood by the populace just because it benefits them

ReAlIsTiC eXpLanAtIoN my ass, it's a lie about PCOS (as the woman now probably believes that they're all going to look and sound like a male pretending to be a female) and it's a lie about himself so it's entirely fake on both counts

Many years ago, when I was a teenager, in a pizza place in a small town in far Northern California, I saw a bearded lady. And I do mean “bearded”—this was an actual beard, not a “my Italian grandma has a little mustache” situation. She was in the next room and I didn’t want to stare, so it was just a few glances. But it was such an unusual sight that it stuck with me.

Now, when TIPs try to tell us that you can’t tell someone’s sex just by looking at them clothed, I think about that experience. I remember how it only took a millisecond for my not-yet-fully-mature brain to take a brand-new sight, process it, and correctly conclude that I was seeing a woman (expected) with a beard (unexpected).

The few times I’ve come across women with a lot of facial hair-including one who had a full beard-it’s REALLY DAMN OBVIOUS that they’re women. That’s why, in the case of that bearded woman, everyone would stare at her, completely confused-because she is unambiguously female.

To the TIM lurkers-you think if you shave or laser off your hair you’ll be able to deceive people, but you will not. There are so, so many other tells 🤦‍♀️