Around 1% of the general population (I don’t have a citation on me but I could find one) does not meet (every part of) the standard definition for male or female.
You probably ran into Anne Fausto-Sterling’s claim that 1.7% of human births are intersex. But it looks like Fausto-Sterling got the science wrong. Yet her work is widely cited by feminist academics.
You probably ran into Anne Fausto-Sterling’s claim that 1.7% of human births are intersex. But it looks like Fausto-Sterling got the science wrong. Yet her work is widely cited by feminist academics.