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Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional (theconversation.com)
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[–] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’m tired, so I’m not looking it up but iirc intersex is WAY more fucking common than you think and there are SO MANY ways it can happen. It’s not very rare outliers, but people also fuckin mutilate their kids over that shit and plenty of stupid shit so here we are thinking it’s like .01% of people.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Anecdotally, one of my friends eventually discovered through a lot of digging that he was very literally assigned female at birth, as he was born intersex and surgically "corrected" at birth without even his parents being told. They only discovered it when the family did DNA tests for some family history thing.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Ya there is that one guy Brian D. Earp who talked about how babies who are born intersex are mutilated like its nothing to assign them a certain sex . And then of course we have babies that are born with perfectly healthy genatalia who are also mutilated like its nothing. THATS what happened to me. And to so many other babies in our world today as I type this....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQQTIpBWqvY

    The thing that makes me think is that these are such MAAASSIVE issues and yet most of society chooses to ....sweep them under the rug?...Why?

    Why are we choosing to not confromt such important issues right now?! Why not before?! What are we doing!?

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