One of the most common arguments you’ll hear in defense of gender ideology is that some people are intersex, and therefore the gender binary is a myth. This is a non sequitur, as I’ve explained many times, and it’s usually accompanied by a series of lies. You’ll often hear wildly inflated numbers from gender activists about how many intersex people there are in the world. You’ll also hear various definitions for what it means to be intersex.
But here’s the only definition that has any meaning, as Leonard Sax framed it: being intersex means that your phenotypic sex — meaning your primary sex characteristics — is inconsistent with your chromosomal sex. For example, someone with Y chromosomes is biologically male and normally has male genitalia. But if that person develops female genitalia, then that person would be a biological male who suffers from intersexuality.
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