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Re:Official StackOverflow FAQ on Gender Pronouns and Code of... by beezle on Saturday October 12, 2019 @11:16AM (#21233781)
"But, at the same time, some 2% of people are neither male nor female, and our society ought to accommodate that."

Citation?

LGBTQ population estimate (US) 4.5%:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/234863/estimate-lgbt-population...

Transgender population estimate (US) 1M/0.3%

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227946/

From the above, "The available evidence suggests that the size of the gender-nonconforming or gender-variant population may be twice as large as our best estimate for the transgender population size."

That pushes the estimate to 0.6% of which non-binary or andogynous is a subset.

I'm not LGBTQ unfriendly at all so don't go there. I am, however, going to question stats that appear questionable, regardless of my personal beliefs.

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Re:Official StackOverflow FAQ on Gender Pronouns and Code of... by falcolas on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:13PM (#21234217)
Hermaphrodytes (more recently called “Intersex”), who have both male and female genetaila. Sometimes, those who were born with both had assignment surgery done as a baby to give them only one set of genetalia.

So, it’s a touch more complicated than that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

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