[little jeremiah]

My ring fingers are the same size as my index fingers.

I used to be a massage therapist and saw many, many hands. There is no standard about length of various fingers and sex. It is infinitely variable. Men have bigger hands generally, and thicker, but that also depends on size of the man and what they do.

The idea that a woman whose ring fingers are as long as index finger is a man is beyond stupid. I just happen to have long fingers overall. Been a female my whole life.

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“My ring fingers are the same size as my index fingers.
I used to be a massage therapist and saw many, many hands. There is no standard about length of various fingers and sex. It is infinitely variable. Men have bigger hands generally, and thicker, but that also depends on size of the man and what they do.
The idea that a woman whose ring fingers are as long as index finger is a man is beyond stupid. I just happen to have long fingers overall. Been a female my whole life.”
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This metric is published many places. (http://www.directorioacapulco.com/14-real-physical-differences-between-men-and-women-besides-the-obvious.html“
“9. You can tell a lot about someone by looking at their hands. In general, a woman’s index finger is longer than the finger next to her pinkie; men’s index finger is shorter than the finger next to their pinkie.”

It is a known marker for gender, and related to androgen levels. “It is difficult to measure the level of androgens a human fetus is exposed to in utero, and research on the subject is often informed by postnatal biomarkers assumed to reflect prenatal androgen exposure. Of these, the most researched is the ratio of the length of the second digit to that of the fourth digit (2D:4D). There is a robust sex difference in this ratio; with men having a lower 2D:4D than women (Grimbos et al., 2010; Xu & Zheng, 2015). This sex difference emerges early in fetal development (Galis et al., 2010).” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-021-02095-5

This noted, documented male vs female characteristic is not “beyond stupid”. Your personal experience may differ, however.

[17strings]

The idea that a woman whose ring fingers are as long as index finger is a man is beyond stupid.

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Thank you! Some of the comments I’ve seen relating one’s sex to ring and index fingers, arm length, shoulder to hip ratio, etc. would have ‘certain people’ believing I was born a male, too, which I certainly was not - and I’ve never received any testosterone injections, either. The body shapes of real people are quite variable, indeed!