hiii! since you invite asks, I might as well. soo, I'm AMAB trans femme who found out that I have hypogonadism, but it's a weird one because it produces more testosterone instead of less? my endo told me it's because my testes are damaged and my brain keeps telling them to produce more T, so they go into overdrive and make a truckload of T, so my natural T levels exceed max male range by a lot, but apparently it's all bound in SHBG, so it doesn't do much by itself (and now it doesn't do anything cause I'm on E)
anyway, my testes were damaged due to cryptorchidism and delayed surgery. pre-HRT my body was fully male otherwise, although I always had quite feminine features, small hands and feet, narrow shoulders and so on.
does this sound like intersex to you? I'm wondering if maybe my feminine proportions and cryptorchidism had a common origin.
So for a second I was confused how your gonads making a lot of hormones would fall under HYPOgonadism, but then you mentioned SHBG and then I was like, ohhhhh. Yeah, that would be a way how. I actually relate, because I produced low amounts of total testosterone, but because I have severely deficient SHBG, my unbound testosterone (androgens that can be used by the body's tissues and thus virilize) was double the typical range for female-typed bodies, thus I had mild clinical hyperandrogenism without hyperandrogenemia (high T in blood. or. biochemical hyperandrogenism). So if you have the inverse, high SHBG thus low unbound T... well there you go hypogonadism/hypoandrogenism symptoms.
So, to put your situation into Terminology TM. You seem to have a form of hypergonadotropic hypogonadism! "Hypergonadotropic" meaning your brain is sending out hormones to try and communicate with your gonads to produce sex steroids (usually in excess, because the HPG axis is often stuck in a repeating loop of "no response? let's make more!"), but said sex steroids i.e. androgens estrogens and progestogens, aren't produced or the body can't respond to them— thus hypogonadism.
Not sure if this is the sort of response you were looking for, but I hope it helps? Oh, and yes I would personally count this as under the intersex umbrella. If it wasn't clear.
















