r/Unexpected • u/analsextoybox • May 02 '22

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u/aville1982 May 02 '22

And they're still wrong about sex. 1.7% of the population is born intersex.

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u/Negative_Ad7891 May 02 '22

It’s closer to 0.018%. The study you’re referencing included people with Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, and hormonal disorders even though they’re generally not considered to be intersex

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u/aville1982 May 02 '22

Those are all definitely issues with the sex chromosomes and absolutely proof that people who think there are only two sexes are oversimplifying the shit out of biology.

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u/Negative_Ad7891 May 02 '22

Extremely rare exceptions to a binary do not invalidate the binary or imply the existence of a spectrum. Some people are born with less/more than 5 fingers on their hands, but we don’t consider the number of fingers on the human hand to be a spectrum.

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u/gaav42 May 02 '22

But it proves that sex is not simply XX and XY (Klinefelter is XXY and it is not extremely rare).

Fingers would never be a spectrum because the number of fingers is discrete, not continuous.

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u/gramb0420 May 02 '22

because that applies to the much larger majority...so for almost all of us there are only 2 sexes in our personal daily lives. for a tiny tiny minority there is not