Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term "software engineering". She's still around at 90 years old, too! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare... 1284
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Progression of Müllerian duct derivatives: 1) prostatic utricle 2) whatever I've got. Infantile uterus? It looks like it's got tubes 3) hypoplastic uterus 4) Persistent Müllerian Duct Syndrome uterus 5) normal fully developed uterus 100
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 13/09/2026And finally, another prostatic utricle, in a 6 y.o. Compared to mine, it's a relatively smaller (noting that they have to pull back some tissue to see it, where mine is plainly visible). So I guess I'm somewhere between a prostatic utricle and a hypoplastic uterus? I'll ask at my follow-up. 010
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 12/09/2026So, I went looking around for some references of hypoplastic uteruses and prostatic utricles to compare to my own laparoscopy, and I found a really good comparison in a case of Mosaic Turner's Syndrome (45X0/46XY). Turner's Syndrome first, my laparoscopy second: 110
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Believe it or not Karl Marx did actually write about this specific thing. 030
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 13/08/2026- boobs + wings + tail You know what, fair trade, flying seems like it'd be fun and an extra limb seems very useful 030
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Actual reply I got on here in a different thread btw 110
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The round ligaments of my uterus and some part of the spermatic cord meet up at a sort of Y junction near the deep inguinal ring and continue down the inguinal canal, but also stretch all the way back to the seminal vesicles, and it *isn't* the vasa deferentia. Any #medical #students want to help? 110
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 18/07/2026"There are no human hermaphrodites" So, slur notwithstanding, here are some slices from my MRI earlier this year. This hasn't been confirmed by laparoscopic biopsy yet but that's literally all that there's left for me to do, and med students clearly identify the structures when I show them lol 040
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Conveniently, I also have an MRI from earlier this year that I can cross-reference with this image. Here are a ton of marked-up slices to check out. I might just show this thread to the surgeon I'm seeing for a vagino-/vulvoplasty consultation soon for reference. 000
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Might as well share this because it's pretty cool. So, I recently got a cystoscopy to check for intersex-related urinary tract irregularities. There's this divot in the prostate that *would* be the upper vagina and uterus if the Müllerian ducts developed. Here's a normal example, compared to mine: 120
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 15/06/2026This both tracks and is a bit surprising. How am I as much like *Misato* as I am Rei, Kaworu, and Shinji? That does not sound like me 010
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 06/06/2026For reference, with my MRI, you can see the opening right at the start. 120
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 05/04/2026And here are my ovaries in the same frame as my testes. The left one was admittedly pretty difficult to find in the coronal view, but it's easy to see in sagittal view and then compare in the other planes. The second and fourth images are references from radiopaedia.org. 121
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Here's a comparison of my own uterus to a professional diagram and a reference cis woman's uterus on MRI. For some reason mine is somewhat lighter in appearance but otherwise it's pretty much the same. I also found my ovaries (the two normal ones and a potential third), similarly pretty standard. 2103
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Like, this is basically what I have going on under the surface of the skin, a few snips and some stitches and this would be me if I wanted to preserve everything as much as possible. I know another (non-binary) intersex trans woman who does actually want that kind of bottom surgery. 070
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Damn I guess I really am out of the industry now, RIP my career? 130
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Oh, and for reference, I made this awhile ago. It's my ultrasound next to a female pelvic anatomy diagram. 000
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 23/01/2026In case there are any radiologists who run into this thread for some reason, here's what I'm looking at 100
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Oh *what*?! Yeah I do (visible in the ultrasound below). I didn't even know that was a thing. It feels like it comes from the ovaries themselves though? The ovarian part of my left ovotestis seems to be polycystic (see ultrasound again, it's on the middle of the right edge), which may factor in 110
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 14/01/2026For reference, here's an actual report finding that trans women are actually more likely to be *disadvantaged*, funded by the IOC: www.forbes.com/sites/lindse... 110
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Here's a other one they did for reference. This is such a nothingburger. 021
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 06/01/2026This is nothing. It just looks normal, maybe even cute in a way where I want to get a similar shirt now because I think it looks good. A feminine character simply having breasts does not sexualize that character. This is basic feminism stuff. Breasts are not inherently sexual. Especially like this. 152
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Here are the transverse shots less cropped and marked up for context: 000
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Looked over my last ultrasound again and I think I actually identified everything 100
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 21/12/2025On the plus side, Quest now has this little note for all my hormone results because a nurse updated the sex marker being used for all my tests going forward. I *do* wish they had an Intersex override that just gives the ranges for Male and Female side by side. 000
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 08/12/2025It is just *structurally* difficult to get diagnosed with any intersex condition as an adult unless it causes fertility problems, cancer, or some sort of emergency. I'm still waiting to hear the radiologist report for an ultrasound I got last Tuesday. It might take a bit because it looks like this: 1171
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Look at the first two compared to some random references. If this doesn't get recognized as an obvious uterus and vagina then I don't know what to do at that point. I guess a second opinion and/or MRI? 231
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Something funny is that intersex advocates point out that the opposite happens when someone diagnosed early and "corrected" rejects the coerced assignment. There's no winning. From Hermaphrodite Logic, referencing two handbooks distributed by the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) in the 00s: 2238
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Keeping in mind that these are cropped from old JPEGs of thumbnails of pictures taken on a phone from ~2010, look at these. I mean come on. These other trans women with OTDSD I'm talking to have similar pictures of themselves as teens, similarly obviously androgynous. 110
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Cis people will push for infant genital mutilation of intersex children because they don't want sex ambiguity *and* they don't want to deal with their child transitioning in *any* way later on. They'll enforce exclusive binary gender on babies born with ambiguous features. From Hermaphrodite Logic: 091
Gonads Georg @redlez.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Hey all, I'm trying to help a trans woman who's been through some serious medical abuse get re-established in Los Angeles- currently she needs some emergency funds to get into a hotel. She's given me the OK to share her Venmo, she needs ~$150 more to stay somewhere for a few days and stabilize. 21313