1.7% is over 130 million people! They are not "just a defect." They're as common as many things we consider normal and even consider common.
Edit: That last panel needs more nuance than I gave it! Gender expression and gender roles are a social construct. But gender identity most definitely isn't a social construct. It's what I am and what you are, and has not been put into you or me by society.
I mean, I think it is still a deformity, just as red hair color is a deformity, etc. Nothing wrong with rarer mutations though~ I think lots of mutations are going to grow a lot more common now that humans have next to no selective pressure, I just hope none of those that become more frequent will be harmful to public health.
I love polandball style comics~
I mean, I think it is still a deformity, just as red hair color is a deformity, etc. Nothing wrong w
Having red hair is a melanin deficiency. It's producing too little of something. It is an example of mutation.
A mutation is a change in the genome. A deformity is a mutation that affects the organism negatively (usually through health problems). Every little change that helped humans evolve or diverge differently as they are now, were mutations. And stuff like hereditary diseases are deformities.
There are lots of ways to be intersex and some of them affect the person negatively from a sexual health standpoint. Still, "deformity" has way too much baggage linguistically (negative connotation, judgement) and I would never use it.
Deformity ≠ mutation. Having red hair is a melanin deficiency. It's producing too little of somethi
From a purely functional standpoint it's the appropriate description. But they use it from an aesthetic standpoint, which it not a legit benchmark to begin with.
It often reminds me of how people considered left-handedness a behavioral disorder. Or a sign of witchcraft.
From a purely functional standpoint it's the appropriate description. But they use it from an aesth
I believe there might be even more intersex people than that, even! Some studies show up to five percent, and it usually gets """corrected""" at birth so they don't know anything was ever different and often the doctors don't even tell the parents. But even if it was less, that's no excuse for being jerks to people in the category. Rarity doesn't make things bad!
I believe there might be even more intersex people than that, even! Some studies show up to five per
