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Any studies on Intersex? I want to know more about it.

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[–]NutterButterFlutterStill waving into the void[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Sorry friend, but this isn't really applicable to LGB or "Drop The T".

If you're still over on Reddit, I'd recommend: https://www.reddit.com/r/ActuallyIntersex

[–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can start with memoirs/autobiographies written by intersex people. I read one about an intersex person who never got the "corrective" surgeries and was allowed to just grow up with her natural body. She had no clue she was intersex until she was older because her parents kept that info from her. She just knew that her vagina looked very different. IIRC she got pregnant, she was also a "lesbian" but enjoyed having sex with dudes? IDK...

https://www.amazon.com/Born-Both-Intersex-Hida-Viloria/dp/0316347841

I'm not recommending this one exactly, its just the only one I've read. You might be better off researching for a better book though because I cannot in good faith say 'this is a fantastic book!' But it IS a book by an intersex person so it's better than nothing at all.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Intersex is not 1 thing. It's basically anything which leads to an abnormal sex phenotype. The Wikipedia article is actually pretty interesting if you want to look there. Usually we think of it as an abnormal sex chromosome genotype but there can be other reasons like androgen insensitivity. The version I find most interesting is genetic mosaicism. This is where you have fraternal twins fuse into a single body shortly after fertilization. If the twins started as male and female the result is a single human with half male and half female cells.

[–]GConly 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

First of all start with "A response to Anna Fausto Sterling", which thoroughly debunks the 2% intersex bs you'll hear around.

Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto‐Sterling's estimate of 1.7%.

If you Google the pdf for the full text it's got a lot more data on intersex conditions.