Gynecomastia can give men breast development well into average female range! If you combine that with volume from fat and or muscle they could certainly be more than enough for your purposes. (They won't necessarily look like cartoon boobs but real cis women's usually don't either.)
If he actively likes looking femme he could also certainly have gotten them on purpose through either self-administered hormones or somewhat illicit implants, and then lied and told his parents it was the medical condition. There's a long history of people of all gender identities, including cis male, doing that for various reasons. He'd need connections in queer communities probably to know how but he could also be keeping all of that very secret.
The specific narrative of getting prescribed feminizing hormones during puberty and then changing his mind is not only really, really unlikely but it's right out of modern transphobes' most paranoid fantasies. If you're in a place where you need to ask for a sensitivity read on that you should probably stay very far away from it.
I'd also add if he's not a main character and the precise configuration of his body and its history isn't a plot point you might not actually need all the medical details up front - it sounds like a lot of this is about presenting a contrast with the main character's story? You really only need to know what the MC knows (which may not be a lot - parents are often very secretive about intersex kids.)
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Date: 2025-02-01 02:03 am (UTC)If he actively likes looking femme he could also certainly have gotten them on purpose through either self-administered hormones or somewhat illicit implants, and then lied and told his parents it was the medical condition. There's a long history of people of all gender identities, including cis male, doing that for various reasons. He'd need connections in queer communities probably to know how but he could also be keeping all of that very secret.
The specific narrative of getting prescribed feminizing hormones during puberty and then changing his mind is not only really, really unlikely but it's right out of modern transphobes' most paranoid fantasies. If you're in a place where you need to ask for a sensitivity read on that you should probably stay very far away from it.
I'd also add if he's not a main character and the precise configuration of his body and its history isn't a plot point you might not actually need all the medical details up front - it sounds like a lot of this is about presenting a contrast with the main character's story? You really only need to know what the MC knows (which may not be a lot - parents are often very secretive about intersex kids.)