I was born 99th percentile for boys and was always huge for my age my entire childhood. Peers used to think I was much older than them, and I had to stop trick or treating early. I hit puberty early late into age 8, and I was 5’10 by 11 (which is almost unheard of apparently). This growth spurt was very leg heavy, leaving me a little lopsided proportionally.

But then, I simply stopped growing in height. My leg to torso proportion never evened out and I look like that to this day (age 27). However, looking back at pictures, I still did grow horizontally over time (as in like my shoulders and upper body got wider), and if I were to guess, this is why I am such an upperboyhon despite my short torso, because things grew proportionally to how they should have been at 6’5 or whatever on the stunted torso of an 11 year old. Wingspan typically is supposed to match approximately one’s height, and mine is 6’3-6’5 depending on how it is measured, despite me being 5-7 inches shorter. This, I assume, is why even despite HRT giving me decent hips, my SHR is still entirely fucked and why my arms are very long, and hands quite big, relative to my frame.

For reference to the disproportionateness being discussed here:

• My leg length is that of someone approximately 6’2-6’4
• My torso length is that of someone approximately 5’4 (I height mog my 5’6 dad 2 inches sitting as well, confirming this to me)
• My bideltoid is 19.2" when skinny
• my wingspan is averaged, 6’4"
• My actual height is exactly 5’10.39"
• My body itself is kinda a leggy lanklet build but shoulderhon, I hide this by wearing mostly full body dresses.

What I THINK happened here:

When I was around 7-8 (right before my relatively early puberty), I ate a TON of burger king on almost a daily basis and got pretty fat. This, combined with the rare cholesterol disorders I now know I have (Familial Hyperalphalipoproteinemia and 95th percentile LP(a) (fuck me btw :c)) and leptin, caused a premature release of GnRH and dramatically accelerated my puberty, making it happen both sooner than usual, and at a sped up rate in several structures. This caused 1 initial “growth spurt” in the typical sense that went so extreme it fully grew my legs to their genetic adult limit. After this, the lipid and leptin imbalance caused my aromatized estrogen to get so high (relative to a “boy” in puberty), that it permanently fused the growth plates in my spine and locked my spine height at age 11. This is arguably CONFIRMED, when they tested my estrogen at 14 for my initial gender dysphoria diagnosis, it was bizarrely high for a teenage “boy”, and my testosterone was high-normal (sadly).

I have an odd suspicion the “tranny gene” running on my mom’s side of the family has something to do with this, especially since my grandmother (the one we have traced it back to), is also the one who our tendency for heart disease seems to be inherited from. I think something about our cholesterol, which is the precursor to hormones, is wonky in a very unique way and it causes some kind of brain feminization that makes everyone born with her genes develop a female self concept regardless of their standard definition birth sex.