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Comment by FirmwareBurner

Comment by FirmwareBurner 13 hours ago

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Why don't we use the definition based on genitals, that a doctor uses to pronounce you at birth, and not the ultra-rare genetic exceptions?

hermitcrab 11 hours ago

Intersex is not ultra rare. About 1.7% of people are born intersex and with intersex babies it is sometimes hard to tell what sex they are from the genitals.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/sexual-orientation-and-gender-ident...

Also you can have people who develop to look like completely normal adult females, but are actually biologically male.

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001669.htm

It's complicated.

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