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There have always been intersex people (folks born with sex characteristics (whether external or internal anatomy, hormones, chromosome patterns) that don’t match typical binary notions of male or female bodies).
1/x https://twitter.com/thirdrategenius/status/1353690993154011137
1/x https://twitter.com/thirdrategenius/status/1353690993154011137
They make up approx 2% of the population, which is the same % of people with red hair. Or with green eyes.
(Got this analogy from someone online, holler if you know who to credit)
(Got this analogy from someone online, holler if you know who to credit)
Chances are you know, have met, etc someone who is intersex. Whether or not they’re out to you, whether or not they even know this about themselves (some people learn later in life.)
Human bodies have never existed in strictly binary terms.
Human bodies have never existed in strictly binary terms.
The Mishnah—a Rabbinic text that was an oral tradition for some time before being codified ca 150 CE, articulates 6-7 sex categories. (Thread comes back to explaining them more after it wanders away from this bit) https://twitter.com/theradr/status/935676243709702145
Anyway, here’s a good place to learn more: https://interactadvocates.org
Thanks to Alex for this correction: https://twitter.com/bronx2216/status/1353700965279387651
More ways to learn! https://twitter.com/bronx2216/status/1353702664849092610
