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An estimated 1.7% of all people worldwide are intersex.
That means there are 132.6 million intersex people on Earth.
727 thousand Oceanians.
7.3 million South Americans.
10 million North Americans.
12.7 million Europeans.
22.9 million Africans.
79 million Asians.
Intersex characteristics vary wildly, and not all are obvious. Many people do not know they are intersex.
People with XX chromosomes can have male bodies.
People with XY chromosomes can have female bodies.
Some people have other combinations of X and Y, including X, XXY, XXX, XYY, XXYY, and XXXXX.
Biology does not conveniently organise human sex into a binary. So why should gender be binary?
@InvaderXan did you see the article i linked? it's an interesting read in that sense as well :)
@olivia Hmm, no I didn't. Let me go and look...
@InvaderXan
I think chromosomes Y are far more often than X, around 3 times more.
So combinations like `XXXX` would be extremely rear...
@InvaderXan is there a research/paper on the subject? I'd like to read more about it.
@meka I can't recommend any specific papers (I'm not a medical doctor), but the WHO seems to have a whole section of their website devoted to this topic.
https://www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/
I haven't read it though, so I'm not sure how good it is.