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[–] Lath@kbin.earth 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Would you care to consider a hermaphroditic body as an option?

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I think that is a separate circumstance all together. A person with multiple sex characteristics could have any possible gender identity like any other person. The whole point of gender identity is that there is no guaranteed link between a person's sex and gender. A person with multiple sex characteristics could identify as nonbinary and that is completely valid.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There are also non-binary affirming sex surgeries as well. Even if you weren't born with both, it is still possible to have both. I think it's pretty neat how far gender affirming care has come! We're on our way to completely shedding the old conceptions of binary sex and gender despite reactionaries

[–] cookie_sabotage@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait a minute, I can be a FUTA IN REAL LIFE?!

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yup! It's a thing, if youve already got a penis I think its called something like phalus sparing vaginoplasty. That should at least point you in the right direction

[–] cookie_sabotage@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

Wow, thank you for the info!

[–] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 months ago

Sure, but Loki, being a shape-shifting trickster god, can probably manage that.

[–] Lath@kbin.earth 5 points 8 months ago

Yes, it is separate and i meant it as such in a 'why settle for less when you can be more' kind of way.

[–] Draconic_NEO@pawb.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I think that is a separate circumstance all together.

How so? They are a shapeshifter, I don't think intersex forms would be off limits if gender swapping and animals/non-humans are fine.

The whole point of gender identity is that there is no guaranteed link between a person's sex and gender.

Even more so with shapeshifters since they can change sex and form at will, like changing an outfit.

A person with multiple sex characteristics could identify as nonbinary and that is completely valid.

Still true, it's just a bit different with shapeshifters because they can change their form in ways most people can't.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How so? They are a shapeshifter, I don’t think intersex forms would be off limits if gender swapping and animals/non-humans are fine.

I was referring to human persons, not ice giant persons with shapeshifting powers. Which is what I assumed the question I was answering was referring to since they were responding to a comment I wrote that was answering a question that I assume refers to human persons.

[–] Sop@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also even in the case of beings with shapeshifting powers, genitalia are irrelevant to gender identity.

[–] Draconic_NEO@pawb.social 3 points 8 months ago

I would say it's even more irrelevant in that case, since shapeshifters can change their body and appearance at will, as easily as changing clothes.