Oh, yeah, good point on the epiphyses. But if you're only PAIS you presumably had SOME, right?
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Replying to @iridienne
It's honestly hard to say because I don't understand well how my body works Most things that were meant to happen during puberty only happened halfway at best my laryngeal folds only got slightly longer on one side, and my voice never dropped below 150 hz, aka total androgyny
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @iridienne
I mean one of the supposed "telltale signs" of cis women with CAIS is being unusually tall
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Yes but i think that's just a weird TERF thing rather than actual research?
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Replying to @iridienne @Nymphomachy
No, it's a thingpic.twitter.com/cZvyFDOpmi
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My vague understanding of the topic is that T, by itself, actually stunts growth for the reasons Penelope mentioned The reason "male puberty" makes you taller overall is multiple switches being flipped, including one that releases more total HGH, which swamps the effect of T
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My sense is that this process is linked to why stereotypically boys start their pubescent growth spurts later than girls (the stereotypical eighth grade dance where the girls are all six inches taller than the boys)
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I.e. that rush of hormones leads to the bones hardening and getting denser under the effects of sex hormones, which is a "finishing" process that makes it difficult for your bones to ever grow any longer after it's done
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So in theory the longer this process can be delayed before it starts the more "growth potential" you have before you max out Hence the paradoxical effect of CAIS girls growing taller is because of the "delay" in how they make sex hormones
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(They make T, which as the name implies they're completely insensitive to, so the T sticks around until aromatized into E So they have stereotypically very femme features but their bone growth doesn't finish off for a while Hence the stuff about osteoporosis risk)
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But anyway this is one of the things I haven't read up on in detail so I could be totally off base, I just know that the height thing is very much a self-reported thing Emily Quinn has talked about it on her channel
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