FallenStar's page

Read through the discussion in the comments. Start from page 1. It should become clear.

Hurk. I didn't see this post.

Yes, basically Shardra's original puberty was preempted by the alchemical solution she began drinking, and switched over the a more common female puberty.

Nope. Not that at all. Dwarves are born with external genitalia just like other human-associated mammalian races

So how did her parents not realize she was born female? Or was magic used to change her physiology from male to female?

Grathel wrote:

Dwarfs have the ability to change sex...huh.

Most sentient creatures do. Just an question of determination and resourcefulness.

It seems more like dwarves on Golarion are born with reproductive organs either absent or recessed. Dwarves have ways of ascertaining the dwarf-childs gender, but they made a mistake with Shardra. She was actually a female, but was incorrectly determined as a male. It wasn't until she reached adolescence that the error was discovered.

The other way to interpret it is that dwarves are infact born androgynous, without gender characteristics at all, and grow them one way or the other in response how they are raised in the culture. In this case, Shardra was meant to be a male but to everyone's surprise turned female instead.