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The United Nations Human Rights Council has made history by issuing its first-ever resolution supporting the rights of intersex people. Intersex people are individuals born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit the typical definitions of female or male. Approximately 1.7% of infants are born intersex — many are forced to undergo irreversible surgeries to “correct” their anatomy and are subject to stigma and discrimination

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Roughly 1.7% of infants are born intersex, which is about the same number of people born with red hair.