Does the existence of intersex people prove sex is on a spectrum? How common are intersex conditions?
❏ Intersex should more correctly be called DSD - differences in sex development. It is a medical condition, not a gender identity and therefore has nothing in common with the trans rights socio-political campaign.
❏ Intersex conditions have been co-opted by trans activists in an attempt to try to prove that sex is on a spectrum. The only time sex is “assigned” at birth is in the very rare cases where the baby’s physical genitalia are not immediately classifiable as male or female. In all other births, sex is observed and recorded at birth.
❏ A small number of people are born with ambiguous genitalia or internal organs that don’t match their chromosomes. Claims that 1.7% of people are intersex (the same as the incidence of red hair) have been inflated by including in the count those with conditions such as Klinefelter or Turner syndromes. People with these syndromes are always male (Klinefelter) or female (Turner) who have chromosomal abnormalities; they are not intersex.
❏ To retain its proper meaning, the DSD label (intersex) should be restricted to those conditions where chromosomes and genitalia are inconsistent and not classifiable as male or female. Using that criteria, the prevalence of DSD is about 0.018%.