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by Symmetry 4138 days ago
It's closish to 99.9% so 7 million. Which is a big enough population that we should consider how we draft our laws and policies but not nearly so large that "male" and "female" cease to be useful concepts for our everyday lives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex#Population_figures
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TuringTest 4138 days ago
> not nearly so large that "male" and "female" cease to be useful concepts for our everyday lives.

Who says those are not useful? The point is to not make therm exclusive by forcing everybody to be identified by one of them when it's not a good fit.

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Aloisius 4138 days ago
The article is referencing "DND" or Disorders of Sex Development. This is a far larger group than what "intersex" covers.
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