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I'm going to stop you right there. Given changes that are slowly permeating both language and legal systems across the world, "man" or "woman" doesn't really have anything to do with biology anymore, nor are terms like "cis" or "trans" really relevant to biology (more so a persons current legal/presenting gender compared to the one they were assigned at birth). As such they aren't useful terms when discussing in the context of what biologically is normal with regards to hormone levels.
The terms that do exist and are relevant (at least in English, my other native language doesn't have separate words for sex and gender which can complicate medical discussions and also makes folks more attached to the biological definition -_-) are male, female and intersex. When looking at a healthy human female they won't have anywhere near the testosterone levels of a healthy male - it's a 5x order of magnitude between the upper female and lower male ranges, even when accounting for PCO/S - which isn't necessarily unhealthy, but just that extra 10-20% outside the normal female range can be enough to start having effects such as growing facial hair in puberty. The gap - along with XY individuals with low testosterone and XX individuals with high testosterone are those who end up developing in an intersex manner, in one way or another (this is already during the fetal stage).
Honestly I feel like we're getting far from the original conversation here, but it's part of what makes these topics so inherently difficult. Balancing between how sensitive some people can find the topic on a social level (particularly when having dealt with actual bad actors), the huge risk of misinterpretations/miscommunications and then the medical field dealing with the biological situation that ultimately is the basis of all this. Evaluating these topics is amongst the most difficult ethical dilemmas we have in the field - right up there with human euthanasia and I don't think there can be a single "right" answer. You're going to end up with different people being hurt wherever the balance is struck and that really, really sucks.