HughRistik comments on A Rational Education - Less Wrong

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Comment author: HughRistik 25 June 2010 09:25:48AM 7 points [-]

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.