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Re:Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says by jlawson on Friday July 17, 2020 @03:54AM (#23868243)
Prevalence of intersex conditions are nowhere near 1.7%. More like one in a thousand or one in ten thousand.
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Re:Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says by DanBC on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:21AM (#23868384)
It's quite a complicated question to answer, and it depends how intersex is defined.

https://isna.org/faq/frequency/

> Total number of people whose bodies differ from standard male or female one in 100 births

> Total number of people receiving surgery to “normalize” genital appearance one or two in 1,000 births

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Re:Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says by qtplatypus on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:14AM (#23868341)
I am going by Blackless‘s research. Even if that figure is wrong Klinefelter syndrome occurs at rate 1-2 per thousand which means that your estimate of one in ten thousand is way out.
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