For me absolutely not. I am only diagnosed as “sex disorder”, got bad blood results, and I get pushed around, because no one feels qualified to deal with me. I feel like people treat me like a zoo attraction. I had psychiatrists ask me to show them my body and touch me, because they were curious. Doctors get angry with me for not yet being diagnosed, question why I’m not yet diagnosed, don’t diagnose me themselves, and then end up telling me they’re not qualified enough. And then the next doctor it happens again. They don’t even do new tests, they do the exact same tests, then get the same results, then act angry and tell me to find a more specialized doctor. I was told by multiple ones I need a brain scan to see if there’s something off there, but then no one forwards me to one. My blood results suggest I will or actively am losing bone density.
I don’t want anyone’s advice or input on my case tbh. I’m tired of people playing Dr House with me.
Can’t speak in general, but my intersex friend only found out he was intersex and had been “surgically corrected” to female anatomy at birth when he was about 25, after his dad got the family genetic testing as part of an ancestry.com type thing. Took them ages to dig up the relevent medical records, even his own parents hadn’t been told.
The country I was born to only has to store records for up to 20 years, so there’s no records of what happened to me, but based on the issues I’ve had, it’s likely there was a surgical intervention. Glad your friend had the ability to access his data.