bigots: there are only two genders, and there is no transgenderism in nature!
fungi: *laugh in 20,000 shifting genders*

I’m sure I can talk to the fungal supervisor sooner or later. Using my negotiation skills while manic, I’ll convince them to make sure every anti-trans bigot experiences an eternity of suffering after they die and fungi make it into their cranium ^_^

@kiki Maybe we should limit this stuff to only what compatibility is needed for reproduction.

This exclude all cases. Humans = sperma + ovule = baby.

Fungi = 17 000 mating types.

@Grumm sex is not gender

The way I see it, there are only two genders.
That doesn’t mean that transgender doesn’t exist, nor that it’s wrong to be transgender.
It just means that there are multitudes of mixes of the two genders.

I‘d accept to call it 3 genders, if it would mean that every mix is just the 3rd kind, but no, people insist that there are many, many genders. And that‘s just silly. What, should we have a name for each combination of male and female? At which granularity do we stop? There are literally infinite possibilities. And all of them are made of two fundamental ones. So there are two.

@Lensflare I prefer to say that in humans specifically, there are two sexes (amab and afab) and a gender gradient. The gradient part feels the same to what you're saying

but, one can combine traits from different parts of that gradient to form a non-binary identity

to some people, genders are the way to navigate cultural stereotypes

Everyone's different.

Unfortunately a lot of people on the left of politics have decided that we have to be fully defined by our race/gender/sexuality etc.

The only way to reconcile these two positions is to expand the number of categories so that everyone can have their own intersectional niche.

Sex and gender are different.
Devs can have a trillion genders but they don't get any sex 🥲

Are you human? Are you decent human? This are the only two questions that i am interested in, and you dont have to be human at all, you can be a decent fox or a bear or owl, as long as you are decent you can be my friend and i would treat you with respect.

What you do in your bedroom, i don't wanna know and i am not interested in that.

Your kinks, your problems! Don't make them mine, i already have my own bucket of problems and that's enough!

you compared yourself to fungi ...

well done 👍🏼

@SidTheITGuy oh how I want to possess a fraction of power that fungi have