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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Just going to comment on something near the beginning of the video. Someone made a dumb comment about intersex people. Basically the terminology "assigned male/female at birth" comes from medical categorization of intersex people but trans ideology parasitically stole the terminology in order to help legitimize their transitions. The speaker makes some dumb point then tries to say x millions of intersex people in the US exist. Basically this number is bullshit.

US population 331.89M

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Now you can look up these numbers in the Wikipedia for intersex but I'll add a bit of context. Some organizations use an inflated number 1.7% to represent the intersex population for various ideological reasons.

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Anne Fausto Sterling puts out a number 1.7% which comes out to 5.6M people in the US. (I think that was what the person said in the video?). Problem is the number is nonsense another researcher put out a response to that exact data saying the final number was full of errors and should have been calculated as 0.37% if Sterling had calculated it correctly from her own data. That's 1.2M people but this is still way over inflated.

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Leonard Sax put out a number 0.018% but he way undercounted because he omits almost all intersex conditions because they present normally as male or female. Another 2018 study estimated the number at 0.02-0.05% but this is based entirely on ambiguous genitals which is how doctors end up being stuck "assigning" a sex at birth. It also doesn't include the actual sex chromosome results which seems to actually define the condition of being intersex.

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For the real number XXX or XXY adds up to 0.1%. the other conditions are at least a decimal point lower so insignificant. That puts the estimate at about 332k intersex people max but they are all still classified as either male or female. Perhaps the only exception is genetic mosaicism but that is absurdly rare.

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That's just my rant about whenever someone tries to claim there are millions of intersex people in the US and the way they try to leech off the medical credibility of intersex conditions is a whole other pile of shit.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi.[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Great context, thank you. Not surprising that they bungled that—they definitely want to inflate justifications for their demands whenever they can fool someone.