Blade_Runner wrote:
Neither the father, the mother, nor the intersex baby in her womb had any choice in the matter, did they?
Genetic abnormalities are not, by any stretch, a social construct, are they?
How common is intersex? a response to Anne Fausto-Sterling
PMID: 12476264 DOI: 10.1080/00224490209552139
Abstract
Anne Fausto-Sterling s suggestion that the prevalence of intersex might be as high as 1.7% has attracted wide attention in both the scholarly press and the popular media. Many reviewers are not aware that this figure includes conditions which most clinicians do not recognize as intersex, such as Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. If the term intersex is to retain any meaning, the term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female. 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%.
However, when any of these children are successfully groomed and grown,
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Agree, and that’s exactly what those with messed up sexual confusion want to see. They need help, not to become the norm.