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Originally Posted by pdurrant
No idea, but at least 1 in 2000 are born intersex, and there are people who do not identify as male or female.
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The 1 in 2000 figure applies more to identification of ambiguous genitalia at birth. The intersex spectrum applies to somewhere between maybe 1 and 2% depending on definitions, though many will end up identifying within the binary gender system. But then there are other folks without currently-diagnosable biological intersex conditions who identify as genderqueer, nonbinary, agender, genderfluid, third-gender etc.
It's not about not "offending" people, it's about not excluding them.
However, I do think it's worth thinking for a moment about whether the question is about gender or whether it's about sex, and which (if either) is relevant to the point of the survey.