Scientists discovered that removing specific molecules from developing mice can completely reverse their sex from male to female.

  • @captainlezbian
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    76 months ago

    But intersex people are super rare! We definitely aren’t a wide spectrum and more common than trans people

    • @flying_gel
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      26 months ago

      Not sure if this is a sarcastic or genuine comment. Regardless a quick google came up with these estimates.

      intersex 0.018% or 1.7% depending on what you include in the definition of intersex. transgender: 0.5%

      So depending on your definition of intersex it can be 3 times as many intersected people compared to transgender or 28 times as many transgender compared to intersex.

      Imo it’s very likely a big intersection in these two subpopulations.

      transgender 1 in 250 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227946/

      intersex: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/