BBC lets the country know intersex doesn't actually mean "in between the sexes"

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33r5d6n635o

"The NHS says this can mean a person has chromosomes usually associated with being female, or male, but reproductive organs and genitals that look different from usual. This may mean they have been registered at birth and raised as the opposite gender to their biological sex. People with such conditions are sometimes called intersex, but they are still biologically male or female."

TiM is angry

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1r29qa3/the_bbc_declares_that_intersex_people_dont_exist/

"They know that intersex people break their anti-LGBT extremist worldview."

Do we live through the looking glass now? The world gets more confusing by the day.

The term intersex genuinely infuriates me. It is so, so misleading. There are people who are unfortunate enough to have a disorder of sexual development so severe that correctly sexing them cannot be done via the usual method of observing genitalia - but everyone is one sex or the other, including those people. I have met lots of people who don't think people can change sex and know that gender is in no way the same as sex, but who genuinely didn't know that intersex means 'has serious dsd' and believed due to the existence and use of the term that some people really, truly are of some sort of mixed sex category.

Glad to see the BBC has got this right!

I took know perfectly intelligent people who genuinely think intersex means "between the sexes" and that this proves that sex is a spectrum

According to Reddit intersex is a thing because purple exists.

#SCIENCE

TBF, the BBC HAS got it wrong though.

The lazy journalist didn’t bother to read the full NHS article or didn’t understand it. Some people who have a DSD have a different chromosome pattern to the usual XX or XY female and male patterns eg XXY.

It is a very poor and inaccurate explanation of DSDs.

But DSDs are sex specific. That Reddit thread was quite scary - they genuinely believe that someone with a DSD holds an intermediate position between male and female (third gamete anyone?). I think we need some clarity here sharpish.

From that Reddit thread: "I know so many intersex people that were forced to live as boys but ended up transitioning to be women."

It truly is a different world over there.

'so many intersex people'?
I did a quick calculation [online % calculator, not me😏] and if 0.018% of the population have DSDs, that's about 12,500 people in the entire UK, so that Redditeer must have a very active and varied social life to get to know 'so many' of them.

There was a mistaken claim made in 2000 that the % of 'intersex' people was 1.7%, but it was quickly shown to be an error in calculation and 0.018% is the accepted stat.

At some point somebody said that 1.7% is the same as the percentage of people with red hair [in certain parts of the world, obvs] so if you ever see the statement 'Intersex people are as numerous as redheads', you can immediately write it off as based on an inaccurate source and therefore nonsense.

There's more about this at
It is not true that 1.7% of the population is 'born between the sexes'. The proportion of people with DSDs ('intersex' conditions) is 0.018% - Stats for Gender

“Intersex” people are about as common as redheads in China.

And are totally irrelevant to “trans” anyway - except as a human shield - because they also cannot change sex.

That's a very confusing article from the BBC. It says at one point: 'Some people do not accept the concept of gender identity and argue only biological sex can determine whether someone is a man or a woman' - but this is what 99.9 of the population know, they don't just believe it and it is provable in fact (like the distance to the Moon), so the BBC is undermining the idea of biological sex determining sex. Weird.