Incredibly rare... a.k.a 1 in 50. Redheads are much rarer.
Sure, ambigious genitalia at birth only happen one in a 1500 birts, but intersex means anything that isn't either long phallus, no vag, testicles, no ovaries or uterus, xy or short phallus (clit), vag, ovaries and uterus, no testicles, xx. People can learn they are intersex during puberty or even later in life, when they have no period or grow a beard/balls never drop/have an ultrasound/have a dna test. Some are only found out post-mortem to be intersex.
Is your definition of male and female "XY or XX in EVERY cell"? Well, then there is a huge amount of people on the continuum of sex. 1 in 8 people is a tetragametic chimera, which means their body developed from two zygotes (nonidentical twins smushed into a single body). Many people don't know, as it sometimes requires checking different tissues. And there is roughly 50% chance of the zygotes being diffferent sexes...
Yes but even if it's the maximum 1/16 that's still a pretty small minority, and most of those people pass as one sex or the other. No I'm not an "XX or XY" fundamentalist, if you still otherwise pass as totally male or totally female and never find out you are intersex then you are as good as not.
Most people are unambiguously male or female, even if they are not "100%" then they are enough that they pass. The few people who are physically ambiguous are such a vanishingly small proportion of the population that they as good as don't exist in the big picture. It's also worth saying, that most of the people who actually are born with ambiguous genitals still pick either of the "traditional" genders to live as too, based on what they're closer to.
Is it normal to have multiple genders?
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Incredibly rare... a.k.a 1 in 50. Redheads are much rarer.
Sure, ambigious genitalia at birth only happen one in a 1500 birts, but intersex means anything that isn't either long phallus, no vag, testicles, no ovaries or uterus, xy or short phallus (clit), vag, ovaries and uterus, no testicles, xx. People can learn they are intersex during puberty or even later in life, when they have no period or grow a beard/balls never drop/have an ultrasound/have a dna test. Some are only found out post-mortem to be intersex.
Is your definition of male and female "XY or XX in EVERY cell"? Well, then there is a huge amount of people on the continuum of sex. 1 in 8 people is a tetragametic chimera, which means their body developed from two zygotes (nonidentical twins smushed into a single body). Many people don't know, as it sometimes requires checking different tissues. And there is roughly 50% chance of the zygotes being diffferent sexes...
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TLDR: Depending on definition of male, female and intersex, intersex people are between 1 in 1500 to 1 in 16 of human population.
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Yes but even if it's the maximum 1/16 that's still a pretty small minority, and most of those people pass as one sex or the other. No I'm not an "XX or XY" fundamentalist, if you still otherwise pass as totally male or totally female and never find out you are intersex then you are as good as not.
Most people are unambiguously male or female, even if they are not "100%" then they are enough that they pass. The few people who are physically ambiguous are such a vanishingly small proportion of the population that they as good as don't exist in the big picture. It's also worth saying, that most of the people who actually are born with ambiguous genitals still pick either of the "traditional" genders to live as too, based on what they're closer to.