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Why are 90% of sexually ambiguous newborns assigned to the category of "female" in societies with advanced medical technology?

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All humans start off as female, and only develop male characteristics later in the growing stages. If a newborn is not totally male, it is therefore "female", since that's the "default state". This is also why males have useless nipples.
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