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MaryDyerMarch 16, 2025

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

Maybe a teeny minority do, but I have PCOS, I’ve met many women with PCOS, and never have I once mistaken one for a man, or been mistaken for a man.

I’m 5’1”, have a very high voice, wide hips, have extra fuzz on my upper lip but never anything more, not even a single sprout on my chin, my hands and feet are tiny, my genitals are unambiguously female including my clitoris, which is quite small. I do have wider than normal shoulders for a female, but certainly not male wide, and my upper body strength is practically zero. Even at my most muscular I’ve only been able to do two push ups max. I have normal amounts and darkness of body hair for a brunette female with southern Italian ancestry. Even in my massive bulky men’s winter jacket, baggy sweats, wool cap, makeup-free face, and messy hair I get exclusively “ma’am”ed by panhandlers.

To the lurkers: WOMEN WITH PCOS ARE NOT MEN.

nomenarewomenMarch 16, 2025

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.