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[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 144 points 9 months ago (5 children)

There are 6 genders, Your can be up, down, strange, charmed, a top or a bottom.

Though if you're really anti-establishment you can also be the exact opposite to any of those.

[–] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 66 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a bottom. I'm an antitop.

[–] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 45 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to, but unfortunately I annihilate on contact.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Unfortunately not. LGBTQ stands for Leptons, Gauge Bosons, Transgender, and Quarks. Sorry higgs.

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 97 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't think biology has much at all to say about gender though? Basic biology says there are two sexes, more advanced biology introduces chromosomal configurations other than XX and XY, and even more advanced biology considers a complex array of factors beyond chromosomes alone, but isn't gender a social construct? Sure, historically it's been correlated to biological sex, but it's not really addressed directly by biology.

[–] euphoric_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

well he is getting laughed at in the meme, because he can't differentiate sex and gender either

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[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

What results from a persons biology has people say a lot about gender, and that's where the social construct comes in, yeah.

You have the genotype, karyotype and phenotype, that may or may not be strictly related to each other depending on what happens during development in the womb.

And now I realize I've already started to go on a tangent that wouldn't even address your comment anymore, so I'll stop myself

But it's fascinating. I'd love to get a karyogram done, to see if my chromosomes actually match what people would expect from the person I lived as up to this point.

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But it's fascinating. I'd love to get a karyogram done, to see if my chromosomes actually match what people would expect from the person I lived as up to this point.

Would you expect something non-standard, or rather - would you be disappointed if it were one way or the other?

I don't really expect anything, no.

Being a newly realized transwoman, it would be kinda fun to have XX chromosomes and show that to the Simple Biology™ crowd, not gonna lie.

But then again, science has already established that chromosomes don't have to mean what many people think they mean, so that wouldn't matter.

Though I'd also just like more karyograms to be done in general, to have a better understanding of how present certain karyotypes actually are

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 60 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How about some advanced biology where you take into account each individuals hormone production levels, types of hormones produced, amount of receptors for each hormone and probably a bunch of other stuff that I don't know about.

[–] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The idea that you can cleanly separate parts of a whole is a useful lie. Gender is a separate part of a person, except for all the ways it's not. A person is a separate part of the world, except for how they're not.

We're all fundamental particles doing a bajillion things per second in an indescribably complex dance and we label a subset of the near-infinite patterns in this mess "gender".

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[–] Darkmuch@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The people who would deny genders would totally deny all the crazy extra dimensions.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 9 months ago

Eh... nah. They wouldn't understand it, but Alex Jones and Joe Rogan talk about extra dimensions all the time, as well as people like the Happy Science Cult and space weirdos like Project Camelot. All while most of them have regressive sexual and gender opinions.

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 9 months ago

Why are you using that alphabet soup to do algebra? There are only 10 digits, it's basic math!!1!!

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

Somehow I don’t expect someone who touts “basic biology” to understand advanced physics.

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 24 points 9 months ago (8 children)
[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for not discriminating against us stupid motherfuckers.

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

As an ignorant motherfucker I don't like this edit.

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[–] mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

According to supersymmetric gender theory, there are 10 genders. Other commonly studied theories include 11 or even 26 genders.

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They say the additional genders curl around each other and vibrate.

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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] euphoric_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 9 months ago

so true bestie

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

People that say that don't seem to knownthe difference between sex and gender. In humans there are only 2 sexes, male and female, but your gender isn't based on your sex... Afaik anyways could be that im wrong too

Edit: nvm there is also intersex so it's not 2 sexes. However sex still isnt the same as gender

[–] euphoric_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

that isn't so binary, intersex people exist, that's a whole rabbithole too.

Damn didn't think of that thanks for reminding me

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 9 months ago

I've been told I'm one-dimensional and that's just flat out wrong. I'm at least three dimensional.

[–] Fungah@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When they say gender they mean sex.

They mean different things to you. They don't to them.

There, argument over.

[–] Arcity@feddit.nl 19 points 9 months ago

And yet there are intersex people. It really isn't just a semantic argument.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

Right: basic and fundamental don't mean "immutable." They mean "for children."

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

No, he does not.

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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