Transgender: Is it written in my bones?

Somethings I noticed on a recent x-ray

Christine Penn
5 min readFeb 21, 2022

Note: I am not a doctor, nor am I trained to perform any sort of medical analysis. I am just a person with an interest in these types of things, particularly when they affect me.

I recently broke my pelvis and something came as a surprise, but wasn’t necessarily a surprise to me. Wow, you may find that statement a little confusing, so allow me to explain.

You could say that my development as a person was a little odd. And as they were occurring, it played hell with my feelings. You should know that by now that I am transgender. I struggled with gender identity my whole life which eventually led to me transitioning. Later on in life, I have been looking into these anomalies I went through to find the origins/reasons for them. If I found the reason; would it explain why I am the way I am? Who knows….

Recently I posted this picture of my pelvis as part of my story about my pelvic fracture — https://christinepenn.medium.com/hospital-stay-provides-unexpected-gender-validation-ac7834f432b:

Did you notice anything? From a standpoint of sex/gender?

If you didn’t let me point out some things I noticed and explain them in detail that I did not cover in that original story.

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Christine Penn

Trans woman, parent, cyclist, software engineer, author, chef, and many other things.