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Biden administration warns against forced surgeries on intersex children in historic report
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This is so important. Even if Trump comes in and wrecks everything, the work is there, and the work will become less memory holed because of the prominence of the people presenting it. The information is already out there, and there will be those who will preserve it until their last breath to ensure it's not forgotten.
We've got to stop allowing people to pretend that biology is in any way binary and this kind of important work helps that happen.
Anyway yeah this is pretty huge and honestly a bit unexpected. Admiral Rachel Levine, MD kicks so much ass for this.
Biology is not binary? Social construct is not binary, I get that, but reproduction pretty much gates biology as binary (in mammals anyways)
Edit: the key word being BIOLOGY. Gonads vs Ovaries.
I understand that some people have both or none, I am not claiming that intersex people don't exist. But good luck reproducing a mammel without a gonads and an ovary, a binary system.
Geesh, take a biology class people
Out of curiosity, does this new-age biology concept also apply to all mammals, or are humans special?
It seems that way if you don't look closely, but there are outliers that don't fit the binary in some way or another. Around ~~1 in 200~~ edit: apparently this has been revised from the 0.5% number I'd heard in the past, and is closer to 1 in 5500 people are born intersex - meaning something about their biology makes them not fit within the biological norm for their gender. For example, there are people born with a Y chromosome, but are born with only female genitalia. Some are born with both sets of genitalia (historically when this happened the parents would pick a gender and the baby would be operated on to remove the other genitals). Biology really only fits into our perfect boxes of gender until we look at the rare outliers, and see the nuance.
This is part of the reason that Trans rights matter, because while some would have you believe that it's all just people who were born in one box, wanting to have been born in the other box (which IMO is still a choice people should be able to make), there's also people who genuinely, biologically don't fit in our neat little boxes either who have just as much right to exist as those of us who do.
1 in 200? Do you have a source for that? Seems like a much larger number than I would have thought possible.
Conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female, occur in 0.018% of the population [1].
The claim that 1.7% of the population is ‘intersex’ [2] includes conditions which most clinicians do not recognize as intersex [1], and is often wrongly used to back up the ideological assertion that ‘sex is a spectrum’, or that biological sex is not dimorphic.
https://statsforgender.org/it-is-not-true-that-1-7-of-the-population-is-intersex-the-proportion-of-people-with-dsds-intersex-conditions-is-0-018/
Thank you for this, I had heard/read a ~0.5% statistic in the past, but apparently the current estimate is lower. I'll edit my original comment to reflect this.