Quote Originally Posted by pruella View Post
That's a tricky question. I guess for 12 months from the time I learned about being IS and that I had been lied to all my life, then discovering all the therapy and medical interventions, I felt totally confused and lost, fall into a very very seriously dangerous depression whilst other intense stressful things were taking place and I was mentally and physically exhausted.
Then it sounds like you do suffer dysphoria - discomfort with seeing yourself as male, or with having a male anatomy, or with being treated as male, socially - or a mixture of these?

IME the difference between 'CD' and 'TS' is not frequency, but the intensity of these feelings - there is a wide spectrum, it's not a clear-cut division between the two - which is why I prefer TG or trans as a description of us all?

One girl I know only found out 2 years ago when she was in a car accident and they opened her up to stop internal bleeding and discovered ovaries. Eeeeps! I think I'd have gone into a coma!
IME, it's not uncommon for this to be found during SRS - genetic testing is still v.rare. However I have two good friends who definitely are Klinefelter's (i.e. XXY). Neither would identify as TS, although both have lived some of their lives as men, some as women - one has fathered children?