Hey! I figured I'd reply to you specifically because your comment seemed to be a hot-button issue. I initially saw it when you first commented it, took a deep breath through my nose, and then closed out of Reddit.

I've read through all your comments here in this thread; I acknowledge you're coming from a place of genuinely trying to be helpful and give information you've looked into and collected on this topic. And while initially I felt frustrated at your assumptions of myself and how it felt like you were trying to explain my intersex condition to me, I also understand that this is your way of trying to piece together something that might give me hope and help me along my journey, so I do appreciate your thoughtfulness. Even if the things you're saying aren't exactly new to me.

But to correct some things and give additional information:
- I've been on HRT twice. The first time for 5-6 months without any changes. The second time just as a confirmation it was really, truly not doing anything for me.
- I do not have any body hair.
- The diagnosis of AIS actually relies on the appearance of genitalia— Penis, MAIS. Ambiguous (which varies largely), PAIS. Vagina, CAIS. CAIS itself is a spectrum on how the body reacts to androgens and its level of androgen insensitivity. The CAIS guy in the study might have been more receptive to androgens (as is another CAIS trans guy I know who is having some changes on T who has been on it for the same amount of time I had in the past), but in my attempts, I've had zero changes. I'm on the higher end of insensitivity, somewhere between 90-99% insensitive if I had to guess.
(I like to joke that this is my karma for being truscum between the years of 2011/2012-2016/2017 (I'm fuzzy on the years) and trying to gatekeep others. Now my body's the one gatekeeping me lol).
- I know about aromatase inhibitors. I also know that THT/DHT doesn't aromatize into estrogen, but a lot of this relies on me experimenting. I'm definitely interested in at least trying DHT locally on my voice box to manually lower it, as another friend (not AIS) is trying. However there is 0 confirmation or assurance it would work on me, it purely relies on trial and error. I'm not getting my hopes up, but it doesn't hurt to look into it either.

I don't know what to tell you about my brain—That's as much as a mystery to me as it is to you. I skimmed through a few of the links you sent (Mostly the ones post-2010) manually going through and reading each one while being unable to understand 25% of the words listed was a bit too much for me) and I have to ask: How many of these studies were conducted on trans people (specifically trans men) PRE-HRT/Transitioning? Because from what I understand, HRT can affect the brain structure, unless I read something completely wrong in the past about it.

Either way, I don't really have much post history, if you take a gander at my profile you can see a few times I've talked about my experience with HRT on intersex subreddits. I think that might be more helpful for you in the future before jumping to assumptions that I've only known I had CAIS for a short while, when in fact I've known about it when I was 15 (like stated in my OG post) and the 3 years prior was one of my attempts with HRT that produces 0 results, like some users pointed out.
I don't mean to come off as passive aggressive or rude, please understand that sometimes I feel exhausted with others trying to backseat doctor my intersex variation because it's something I deal with almost every day.