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During Leverkusens match last saturday their fans showed a banner with the title "There's many music styles - but only two genders" (www.express.de)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The person you're replying to is wrong, translating the word as gender makes the most sense here. That said, sex isn't strictly binary ~1.5% of people are intersex, which means when they're born, they don't fit the typical definition of male or female.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

1.5% of people are not intersex. It's closer to about 0.02%

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got my numbers from Amnesty International.

Myth 2: Being intersex is very rare

According to experts, around 1.7% of the population is born with intersex traits – comparable to the number of people born with red hair.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's a common figure that you will often see but it's wrong.

It's based on an academic paper that included a large range of non-intersex conditions that affect phenotype.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/

Actual chromosomal difference (which is what intersex refers to) is about 0.02%.

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