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Klinefelter syndrome: one to two per 1,000 live birth

Turner syndrome: 1 in 2,000 to 5,000 female births

Triple X syndrome: approximately 1 in 1,000 (female)

Jacob’s syndrome: 1 in 1,000 males

Mosaicism affecting sex determination: 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 50,000

Swyer syndrome: ~1 in 80,000–100,000 births

SRY translocation to X or autosome: ~1 in 25,000–30,000

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: 1 in 10,000–50,000

So there are ~0.3% of people who have an unusual sex determination because of genetics. As another poster said that means there are 900,000 people with these conditions in the USA. That's half of the transgender population in the USA.

Yet I agree that does not prove that a significant portion of the transgender population has some genetic variation affecting their sex determination, but definitely it proves that the situation is more complex than many think.



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