so I have a bug that I can't figure out the cause of for some reason the game is only generating futa students tested with both my custom configs and the vanilla config
"Custom config" implies you messed with the game, and the bitch of the problem is that there is no guarantee whatsoever that no
other, non-config, files got changed as a result, whether intentionally by you or by the game itself. Anyone trying to troubleshoot your issue would pretty much need a 1-to-1 copy of all of your game files.
0. Just skip everything below and re-download the game - that would be the only "vanilla config". Best way to make sure there are no leftover surprises from modding.
1. Make sure you actually have
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selected.
2. If after that you still get only futas, go to "Schools/NormalSchool/Config", open DefaultGameConfig.xml and check
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No more ideas at this point, but most likely 2 is the problem: either the values in the default config file are not, well, DEFAULT, or something is overriding them (which is what 1 is supposed to help bypass).