"My dog is gender dysphoric."

[UnseenParticipant]

Is the subject line a joke or just a falsehood or something else?

What is all this about there being more than two genders? For humans. No one makes a similar claim for dogs, cats, cattle, hamsters, wombats, komodo dragons, or axolotles.

What am I talking about?

The following are 58 gender options identified by ABC News, which may not even be exhaustive:

Agender
Androgyne
Androgynous
Bigender
Cis
Cisgender
Cis Female
Cis Male
Cis Man
Cis Woman
Cisgender Female
Cisgender Male
Cisgender Man
Cisgender Woman
Female to Male
FTM
Gender Fluid
Gender Nonconforming
Gender Questioning
Gender Variant
Genderqueer
Intersex
Male to Female
MTF
Neither
Neutrois
Non-binary
Other
Pangender
Trans
Trans*
Trans Female
Trans* Female
Trans Male
Trans* Male
Trans Man
Trans* Man
Trans Person
Trans* Person
Trans Woman
Trans* Woman
Transfeminine
Transgender
Transgender Female
Transgender Male
Transgender Man
Transgender Person
Transgender Woman
Transmasculine
Transsexual
Transsexual Female
Transsexual Male
Transsexual Man
Transsexual Person
Transsexual Woman
Two-Spirit

Actually, I think biology recognizes just two genders which are pretty easy to distinguish with absolute scientific certainty. There’s the one with two X chromosomes and the one with one X and one Y. Anything beyond that is either a flaw, like the person with one X and two Y chromosomes, or imaginary, at best a psychosocial attitude about gender, not a fact about gender.

This is not a discussion of sexual orientation. Note that homosexual and lesbian does not appear in the list.

My cat is a girl. She’s been fixed. She’s still a girl to me as is a female who’s been effectively “fixed” by her biological clock..

Your thoughts on gender are welcome here.

 

[PopeBeanieModerator]

Unseen wrote:

axolotles

That looked mispelled to me, perhaps should be an “a” instead of an “o”, so had to look it up.

Nope, I’s wrong, it shouldn’t have an “e”.

It is a rare treat to get to proofread a post from Unseen!

I’m still wrong. Should be “axoloti”! (Who makes these rules, anyway?)

[PopeBeanieModerator]

PopeBeanie wrote:

Your thoughts on gender are welcome here.

Merely human constructs. I’m not deciding until AI’s had enough time to figure it out and make a declaration.

[UnseenParticipant]

PopeBeanie wrote:

Unseen wrote:

axolotles

That looked mispelled to me, perhaps should be an “a” instead of an “o”, so had to look it up. Nope, I’s wrong, it shouldn’t have an “e”. It is a rare treat to get to proofread a post from Unseen! I’m still wrong. Should be “axoloti”! (Who makes these rules, anyway?)

I thought I made a mistake once…but I was wrong. (one of my favorite classic quips)

You got me. The odd spelling is because the term is Native Mesoamerican. The “tl” ending is exactly the same as the ending of Quetzalcoatl, a Mexican god.

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