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By "cross-gender" I assume you're including categories like "biological men who identify as women", which is a very large group compared to the biological categ
by hughprime 17y ago
By "cross-gender" I assume you're including categories like "biological men who identify as women", which is a very large group compared to the biological categories mentioned in the article.
I mean, I have no problem with men who want to identify as women, or indeed with men who want to identify as $6.99 Ikea table lamps, but the existence of such men isn't a challenge to binary human/lamp classification schemes.
- whye 17y agoYou have it backwards. prevalence of Klinefelter's syndrome (XXY male, with symptoms): 1 in 1000 men prevalence of Transsexual men ("biological" men who identify as women): 1 in 30,000 to 1 in 4,500 (source: Wikipedia, but the references for these statistics appear to be in legitimate scientific publications)
- dgordon 17y agoActually, prevalence of transsexual women (the accepted term for what you meant, since "women" is what they identify as) is probably quite a bit higher than that. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/TSprevalence.html http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/TSprevalence.html does an analysis that concludes that said prevalence is on the order of 1 in 500. But I don't think we were talking about transsexuality, which is something different from the intersex conditions which might make this whole business of sex testing more complicated than one might expect.