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Re:Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic by Symmetry on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:14PM (#9076195)
It's closish to 99.9% so 7 million. Which is a big enough population that we should consider how we draft our laws and policies but not nearly so large that "male" and "female" cease to be useful concepts for our everyday lives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex#Population_figures

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Re:Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic by TuringTest on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:21PM (#9076259)
> not nearly so large that "male" and "female" cease to be useful concepts for our everyday lives.

Who says those are not useful? The point is to not make therm exclusive by forcing everybody to be identified by one of them when it's not a good fit.

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Re:Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic by Aloisius on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:25PM (#9076307)
The article is referencing "DND" or Disorders of Sex Development. This is a far larger group than what "intersex" covers.
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