There is no such thing as "intersex". That is the first thing to know. There ARE a teeny tiny number of people with abnormalities of sexual development, but this does not place them in a new sexual category. Gender ideologues want you confused about this, all the better to advance the transgender agenda. There is a new UN resolution on this topic. Our friend Jay Richards of the Heritage Foundation begs to differ.

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported on the resolution, citing UN data as estimating that “up to 1.7 per cent of the population is born with intersex traits.” “Intersex” is the term used by gender ideologues in order to imply that sex — male and female — is actually on a continuum.

Richards says, “The Council is using individuals with rare disorders of sexual development [DSD] to attempt to debunk the sexual binary and imply that sex (or “gender”) exists on a spectrum. On the contrary, we understand that these individuals suffer disorders because we know how sexual reproduction works under normal development.” He says, “The Council can’t even get the basic scientific facts right. It claims 1.7 percent of people have ‘intersex traits.’ This is bogus. In reality, only about 0.018 percent of the population has a DSD. It’s shameful to sully an effort to affirm the rights of individuals with DSDs with an ideology that seeks to erase our biological reality. The 1.7% estimate was promoted by sexologist Anne Fausto-Sterling in her 2000 book, with the argument that human sex is not binary, but exists on a continuum. Fausto-Sterling’s ideas were eagerly adopted by the gender studies field, but faced pushback from biological scientists, who noted that her definition of “intersex” included a wide variety of conditions that had never been recognized as intersex previously.

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