It will be interesting to follow-up on these papers. 2% is always the figure given in bio-anth courses, but to date I don't know anyone who even bothered to read the source material.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1108916984664805376 …
If it was really 2%, then everybody should like know of a few such people thru random life circumstances.* I've known hundreds of people in my life and I've never met someone, or someone who told me they knew of one. * making some assumptions, like not hidden/selected away
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Same here. Measuring out to a population size in the US roughly equivalent to the state of Massachusetts? Yeah, I am not so sure about such an estimate. Not even congenital port-wine stains and cleft palate put together are this common.
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It was (likely still is) common practice in the US for doctors to surgically alter intersex babies shortly after birth (normally altering to female) I have read about people who never knew they were born intersexed until assessing old medical records as an adult.
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Ah, this practice is not so common now partially thanks to folks like Alice Dreger. Even so, I'll need to read the papers tomorrow and see where these percentages come from, this may not be self-odebtification, anyway.
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the 2% figures comes from Fausto-Sterling
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Albinos are 1/17,000, yet I’ve encountered quite a few in my life.
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I've never even seen one. Granted, they are probably harder to spot in Denmark than in Houston!
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I've a friend with klinefelter's and another with what's it, some androgen thing.
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I met someone with Turner syndrome once. That one is hard to miss.
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Most people don’t really readily disclose “oh btw I have 3 sex chromosomes”. But I’ve met one person who admitted to having Klinefelter’s
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