Anne Fausto-Sterling's conflation of intersex variation with sex's social construction commits a category error: statistical exceptions do not destabilize a natural kind's defining criteria.
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Social construction(as used in the broader argument of the statement)
The idea that something we think of as natural or fixed is actually created by society—like how we decide what counts as an 'impairment' based on our values and how we've built things.
Statistical exceptions(as what the argument says don't destabilize categories)
Rare cases or outliers that don't fit the typical pattern—like how intersex people are a small percentage of the population.
natural kind(Used to argue that schizophrenia fails to qualify because it is a heterogeneous conjunction of distinct pathologies, not a unified entity)
A category that carves nature at its joints — a real, unified class of phenomena sharing a common underlying nature or pathology