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adamsbriscoe

Not sure what you're referring to but it's not 1 percent.. it's not even 0.01 percent.

Cursory search: https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20190503/study-abo...

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That link says 0.13%, first off, and it only includes people who have visible genital differences.

Many, many more people have different genetic configurations that can manifest well after birth.

I'll admit I rounded up to one percent from something that was a large fractional percent.

0.13% -> 1% doesn’t feel like rounding (it’s actually nearly a 10x change). 0.13 is not a large fraction.

Assuming good intentions based on your other comments, but these things can elicit negative responses.

Note that .13% was not what I rounded up. That .13% is a subset of people who are gender minorities (eg trans or non-binary) and there are several academic estimates that put the number higher than 1%.

My intuition, reading through the studies and talking a conservative estimate, is that something like 0.6 to 0.8% is a defensible estimate. I rounded that to 1%. Other scholars pick higher or lower numbers, but it's not 10%, and I firmly believe that it's not 0.1% based on studies, which makes 1% the correct order of magnitude, imo.

Fair enough.

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