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Animats on Feb 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic

Some of the unusual situations mentioned are birth defects. About 3% of babies have birth defects.[1]

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/features/birthdefects...

jklinger410 on Feb 19, 2015 [–]

So if you count out birth defects and dimorphisms that have no weight on "gender" you have an insignificant amount of variance.

Sounds to me like someone is reaching to make science match the way they feel about gender.

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