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I also find it interesting that the generally smart and data driven crowd at HN is so ideological driven when it comes to the reality of diversity in sex phenot

I also find it interesting that the generally smart and data driven crowd at HN is so ideological driven when it comes to the reality of diversity in sex phenotypes, which are about 1% of the general population, and about 15% of those with autism.

Guid_NewGuid 3y ago
Yeah the culture war seems to be seeping in everywhere and particularly badly on these topics as the bulk of comments on this article seem to show. At the boundaries even in humans this stuff gets really fuzzy and has real world implications for people who get barred from their careers or forced to undergo medical procedures to be more easily categorised[0][1]. While it might be a rare scenario (between 0.08% and 1% seems to be Wikipedia's intersex estimates depending on definition) a system is only as good as its protection for the minority case. And from an intellectual curiosity standpoint this is kinda cool and interesting right? Like this breaks our lazy categorization and shows that the world is so much more intriguing than our dumb models. And instead of 'intellectual' and 'curious' discussion we get the equivalent of a Tennessee GOP rally about school bathrooms... [0]: https://apnews.com/article/europe-cape-town-africa-south-africa-2020-tokyo-olympics-c87dd02056cb8b893941cbbfaf31e752 https://apnews.com/article/europe-cape-town-africa-south-afr... [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone_regulations_in_women%27s_athletics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone_regulations_in_...
- SubiculumCode 3y ago
  THANK YOU!!!
LoganDark 3y ago
> about 1% of the general population, and about 15% of those with autism Huh?