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[–]MezozoicGaygay male 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That one case is the exception to the rule?

It is unknow if it is. We don't have data on that person, as data is fragmented and was received more than 100 years ago, before modern methods of research.

The definition of male or female can't be used to determine if the intersex people of that one case are male or female?

Why? First of all - it can. Second - why should it matter? Just let them be. They are not changing their sex anyways, so they has nothing to do with being or not being transgender.

Wouldn't it mean the definition of male or female is flawed because it can not perfectly categorize that one case, and that case is an exception which disproves the rule?

We don't know if it disproves the rule. And until rule is not disproved, it works. Plus, if it works in 99.999999999% of cases, then there no reason to not use it, even if in 0.000000001% there will be set a special case.