"But only 2% of the population is intersex. It's not that common. Why should we reframe or perception of gender for intersex people?"
Completely ignoring the fact that empathy exists. You do realize that 2% of the population in the medical field is considered very common, yes?
2% of children and 0.5% of adults have a peanut allergy and that's so common that they have entire rules around in in public spaces.
0.24-1% of the population has Rheumatoid arthritis. That's an eighth to a half of the number of intersex people!
1-2% of people are estimated to have autism, and that's considered a common condition.
0.1%-2.6% of people will get melanoma in their life time, and that's considered common.
1.2% of people have epilepsy and that's considered common.
Completely ignoring statistics like 6% of women have PCOS (which is a condition that can fall under the intersex umbrella). 2% of the population in the medical field is considered a common condition, and ergo by medical terms intersex is in itself common.
I don't think you realize how big 2% is. That's 2 in 100 people. If you walk into 3 fully filled classrooms (when I was in school a full classroom was 40 students). Chances are you just saw 2 intersex kids and didn't even know it.
So yeah. I think intersex is common enough to include in our discussions around gender and how transphobic rules affects intersex people.
-fae
Good tags for conceptualizing how much 2% is
Doesn't matter if it was 2 or 0.2 or0.02 or 0.002. If even 1 person is present, we make comfortable room for them.
this last reblog! but I also just wanna like. talk about how much 1% of the world population actually is.
we're 8 billion, roughly. 8,000,000,000, written out. 1% of that is 80 million. You know what's also pretty exactly 1% of the population? the population of Germany. 2% is roughly the population of Bangladesh, which on the wikipedia list of sovereign countries and dependencies by population is number 8 of 195. Germany is number 19 with 1%. (link)
you could fill most countries with 1% of the population, let alone 2%. The US has around 4%, and on that wikipedia list it's the 3rd most populous country.
1% of the population is not just medically common, it's also generally a lot because the sample size is fucking massive. even 0.5% of the population is still 40 million people. 0.25% is 20 million. and so on.
a whole lot of articles and people talk in percentages like "only 2% of the population", with no mention of the 8 billion sample size, purposefully to make people like intersex people, trans people and others seem like a neglectable amount.
(ETA: ofc no amount of person is neglectable, but you get my point)

















