I spent 30 years thinking I was cishet (and suffering for it). When I finally realized that I'm trans, it was like a dam bursting; suddenly everything about my identity was in question. I've gone from "Maybe I'm a girl" to "I'm a trans demi ND plural therian" in three years and I don't think I'm done discovering things about myself yet.
How big does a minority need to be before it's "relevant" enough to be acknowledged and its members' rights respected? People with 4 or 6 fingers exist. People whose chromosomes don't match their physiology exist. People whose gender identity doesn't match their genitals exist. It doesn't matter how many of them there are, because every single one of us is a unique minority of one.
But you asked for numbers, so I'll give you some numbers.
According to this article, around 1.7% of people are intersex, meaning they have physiology that doesn't fit neatly into the common conceptions of male or female. That's close to the number of people with red hair, which is estimated to be 2% of the world population. I have never heard anyone suggest that redheads are too small a percentage to matter.
I think you were asking specifically about chromosomes, though. There's a table in the linked article that breaks down intersex conditions by cause. The first entry is "Non-XX or non-XY (except Turner’s or Klinefelter’s)". This refers to people with XY chromosomes whose bodies developed female characteristics (Swyer syndrome) and people with XX chromosomes whose bodies developed male characteristics (de la Chapelle syndrome). It does not include people with X, XXY, or XO chromosomes. (Those are the next two entries in the table.)
The estimated frequency for this condition is 0.0639 per 100 live births, equivalent to 0.0639% of population. That looks like a really low number, right? Surely not enough to be "relevant"! Except... There are 8.1 billion people on this planet. 0.0639% of 8.1 billion is 5,175,900 people, which is roughly the current population of New Zealand.
Remember, that is only women with XY chromosomes and men with XX chromosomes. If we include all intersex people that number rises to 140 million, which is nearly the population of Russia.
If the AI could really detect any discrepancies between human and AI-generated text, it would stop making them.
To be fair, it's kind of hard to come up with a defense when your premise is "Cancer treatments cause cancer" 😄
Wall Avoidance is a nice QoL perk but it's buggy and only fully applies to static terrain. It's unreliable around dynamic objects like swinging doors, fails often when performing inputs rapidly, and absolutely will not work with anything that temporarily modifies the user's hitbox. It's also really hard to gauge the perk's overall value without knowing which of my debuffs is the one that was applied to cover the equipping cost. I really can't recommend unlocking it unless you're specifically going for a DEX build, and even then you likely have many better options available.
I think visual daydreams are just the most common type, so that's what people tend to describe. I don't have aphantasia and yet I often find myself getting lost in imagined conversations with people I know, or mentally rehearsing how I would teach/explain something, or trying to optimize a build or loadout in whatever video game I've gotten interested in lately. None of that feels any different from a typical daydream in terms of experience; I'm just using my imagination verbally or logically instead of visually.
Wow, almost a blackout. Even the ones I didn't mark are still things that I do, just not frequently enough for them to seem unusual.
Is there a rule that daydreams have to be visual? Spending lots of time thinking up extremely detailed strategies for unlikely hypothetical scenarios definitely qualifies as "elaborate daydreams", in my opinion.
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