@FreshFancyFrogglette
Biology and science evolve all the time! We are constantly learning new things about what we know.
Indeed we are. I hope today will be no exception for you. 💚
"Intersex" is an umbrella term that is being phased out as lay people incorrectly infer that people with such a condition are between the sexes, and envisage hermaphroditic slugs, which is very othering. Preferred terms now tend to be DSD (Disorder or Difference of Sexual Development) or CCSD (Congenital Condition of Sexual Development).
There seems to be no correlation between them and gender dysphoria.
I quote:
Initially the approach with [gender dysphoria] was similar to that for disorder of sex development, with a karyotype being routinely requested. An audit of UK clinics from 2013 to2015(Table 1)revealed no differences from cytogenetic surveys of the UK newborn population and elsewhere.1011Therefore, routine karyotyping of a child or adolescent with GD is not required unless any specific clinical features determine this to be necessary.
adc.bmj.com/content/103/7/631
If you follow the link, you will see that they found the rate of CCSDs for patients being assessed for gender dysphoria was the same as the rate for the wider populations.
You will see the table is labelled with the term aneuploidies.
An aneuploidy is what we call it when there is an abnormal number of chromosomes in the cell[s] of an organism for its species. For example, humans usually have 23 pairs, or 46 chromosomes, in our nucleated cells. When we don't (typically due to an error during meiosis), things do not go well. A famous example of aneuploidy is Down Syndrome, or Trisomy 21, so called because the cause of this condition is an extra chromosome in pair 21. (Totalling 47 chromosomes.)
Aneuploidies can happen with any of the chromosome pairs, but a large number of them aren't as well known as Down Syndrome, because their effects mean human fetuses conceived with them do not survive to adulthood. Some are so lethal that the fetus is always miscarried.
Naturally, aneuploidies can occur in pair 23, the sex chromosomes. These are people with medical conditions, who deserve to be treated with respect.
Saying that people with aneuploidies of pair 23 are neither male nor female is basically the same thing as saying that people with aneuploidies of any of the other 22 chromosome pairs arent human.
It is horrifically ableist, and I do not wish to see you doing it again on this board. This is a parenting site, and disablism towards people for congenital conditions is never acceptable here.
If you want to do that, go to one of those subs on reddit where they laugh at disabled people.