Intersex, people who are born with both types of reproductive organs (yes that happens and it’s more frequent than you’d think)

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I wouldn't consider .05% as common.

it's extremely rare

it is unfortunately true that they often chop the boy parts and treat them as a girl though

which is no less sexual mutilation than circumcision, which is abhorrently acceptable in modern western societies even though it's about as brutal an unnecessary medical operation as you can get

also i think that 0.5% is probably overstating it

if this kind of thing was even remotely common it would also occur regularly in many other mammals and it doesn't

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_(biology)#:~:text=6%20References-,Mammals,DNA%20by%20Lum%20et%20al.

“[it] has been reported in mammals, fishes, nematodes, and crustaceans”.

“[it is] estimated that [up to] 1.4% of pigs are intersex … [up to] 1.7% of humans”.

Beg to differ. 0.05% of 8 billion is still 4 million people. In a world of 8 billion people, percentages aren’t really a good measure for how common something is.

Ahh thank you!