Solid data on this critical detail doesn't actually exist, no.

I'm a cis woman who doesn't wear makeup and I'm older than I used to be. I get called "sir" at times.

The entire world tells us "women" look like twenty five year old models with professionally done make-up and we don't all look like that, no.

I didn't get called "sir" in my youth even though I wore little or no makeup most of the time. I dress more androgynously these days and my body language has changed over the years and I'm no longer twenty five.

I feel perfectly fine with how I look and was given substantial feedback in youth that I was quite beautiful. A lot of that wasn't intended as flattery or kindness but was instead intended as justification for sexual assault and how it was my fault, so they were absolutely not saying I was pretty but not meaning it to make me feel good about myself, no. Propping up my self esteem was not the goal.

I have long known that Gloria Steinem was quoted as saying "This is what forty looks like." but it was always presented as a brag or expression of self confidence. I recently learned that the full quote is "This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?" 

Cis women don't know what women look like without makeup and other trappings of femininity as dictated by society. Cis women typically feel unattractive without makeup and compare themselves to what they see in magazines and find themselves wanting.

Cis women routinely hate their bodies and feel too fat and hate their boobs or butt or whatever.

Cis women have trouble finding clothes that fit them properly. I hate the American clothing industry so much, I've spent more than thirteen years fantasizing about starting my own clothing line in hopes of dressing the way my mother expected me to dress and made it possible in part by buying clothes for me and in part by sewing clothes for me.

I have another site I update infrequently called The Genevieve Files. Perhaps this belongs there and not here.

Except the lies we all hear and see nonstop about what women look like is a problem for medical science, not just for the trans community and people wondering if they are trans.

Sorry, none of us ACTUALLY knows what "women" look like. That's NOT information we make available, no.

Again, this site is about my interest in sex hormones and sex hormone syndromes as a MEDICAL thing because I have an interest in medical stuff.

But unfortunately the current primitive state of the art is people questioning their gender identity and wondering if they LOOK like a man or a woman and posting photos of themselves online and talking about how unattractive they feel and that they feel they will never pass.

I don't "pass" as female consistently and I've given birth to two babies conceived the old fashioned way: I was just trying to have a good time. No medical intervention was involved at all.

I find my androgynous appearance hilarious. People being confused as to what my gender is makes me amused.

In part because we put a gun to the head of women to look a particular way and then sexually harass and sexually assault women who are successful at looking that way and then tell them it's their fault they are abused because of how they look.

I get less crap off people than I used to because of my more gender neutral appearance and rest assured my girl bits aren't any less girly in the slightest.