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If egg-humans were monotremes like a platypus, they would still have mammary glands, but they are also internal. They don't have nipples, but instead secrete milk through pores in the skin, somewhat like sweating milk, that the babies will just lick at. Other egg layers like birds and reptiles just have babies that hatch ready for regular food, so they don't have any mammaries to worry about.
May be a little off topic, but do hormones actually affect personality? With no external sex organs of any kind, would transitioning even be a thing? Other than preventing a female from laying an egg, would there be any benefit to any kind of hormonal therapy?
Hormones don't affect personality, but a whole lot of other things, such as voice, body hair, facial features etc. Also apparently in some bird species, the males have cloacas that are come a little outside the body, like a bump, so I think that HRT might possibly affect your cloaca.
Ah, good points! Thinking about it again, usually female birds and reptiles are physically larger too, so that would also be noticeable gender difference too, though the female platypus seems smaller than the males.
There sure are a lot of things people take for granted that hormones regulate!