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Originally Posted by psychobimbo
According to that video, approximately 2% of the world population is intersex. Think about that. Out of 50 people that are your friends, family, work acquaintances, etc, one of those people is an intersex person. 50 people. Its not hard to think that you have come across quite a number of intersex people in your life. You just never knew about it most likely. Put yourself in their shoes and think about how you would feel if you happened to be an intersex person. By the way, that's called empathy and something our society needs to show more of, IMFHO. Not sympathy, but true empathy.
And even if it is a small number, why does that preclude our society from recognising who they are? They are not irrelevant.
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While I certainly agree with your post, you are asking others in this thread to display empathy. The overwhelming emotion displayed in the responses is FEAR. Fear of change, fear of the other, fear of the unknown.
It is very difficult for a person to feel empathy when they are paralysed by fear.