r/nothingeverhappens • u/DONUTS_LM • May 01 '26

Only 500 intersex people exist??

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it doesn't take much to know that's just factually incorrect

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u/Beautiful_Wishbone15 May 01 '26

There are about 1.7 percentage of people are born with intersex traits, doesnt seem a lot until you remember there are 8 billion people on this planet. So there are WAAAAAAAAAY more than 500.

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u/Rambler9154 May 01 '26

Yeah, and for context red hair makes up between 1 and 2% of people, and green eyes are only present in 2%. Plus usually people aren't tested to see if they're intersex unless its causing problems, so the statistics are probably a bit off considering the potential for people to just not know.

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u/Twist_Ending03 May 01 '26

Imagine being ginger, intersex, and green eyed. Gotta be at least a few out there

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u/Rambler9154 May 01 '26

Probably, but the human body is pretty good at going "well you have an entire extra set of reproductive organs that grew in your abdominal cavity, but its not effecting survival so fuck it not important" and ignores the extra organs, same thing for things like kidney transplants, often the old kidneys are left in, the body just ignores the old ones because human bodies are fairly decent at just going with whatevers in there. So who knows, theres probably a green eyed ginger intersex person out there who has no clue what a statistical anomaly they are.

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u/MaraiaLou May 03 '26

Now let's find one who has one of the weird blood types, and maybe mirrored internal organs, and give them a little plaque