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the-trans-dragon · 1 year

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I am eagerly waiting for my society to figure out that our sex is more complicated and nuanced than "male and female" and I think a nice baby step would be admitting that our concept of sex is...

...inadequate?

...incompatible with a comprehensive understanding of life?

...silly?

I don't think humans will ever have the perfect terms for perfect comprehension but...it's kinda human nature to try to find the words. Are you telling me that this type of terminology (link to the Wikipedia article) is the best we can do? Even when discussing creatures that clearly are not compatible with a binary view of sex?

Like, if we can't even admit that complex sexes exist somewhere on the planet, how could we fathom that they exist within us?

#sorenhoots #for now i give up trying to reseaech this funky little creature. its fascinating and i will try again later to learn how it works.#at LEAST after coffee.#i do kinda love this example because its elucidating the issue of sex being defined as 'reproductive capacity' versus 'gamete production'#versus 'chromosomes.' the way they say that the males have testes and the females have ovotestes and then the other source uses different #definitions to try to convey that REAL females are 'unknown' and i sorta understand that theyre trying to say 'we did not find any of these #that only possessed ova' but it fails to convey so MUCH! i cant wait to try to figure out what it means by that parasitism part. i like to #think about it myself before checking the data. maybe it's something like angler fish where they possess a sort of 'chimeric' testes? ah but #that is another word that has several incompatible definitions. i mean 'chimera' as in 'tissue originating from cells from a different #zygote' i guess (rather than 'from a different species.' and rather than the yknow :3 lion snake chimera).#but like if the sperm is just...from a male...what makes their gonad an ovotestis rather than 'this is a female who can store sperm which is #something seen in plenty of other animals'? do these reproduce by transfering their TESTES cells rather than just their sperm??? the part #about leftover sperm makes it sound like the testes gets reverse-engineered from the sperm. and if a creature can do that...i dont know what #'sex' that is but its REALLY not male or female. either way lol our current language is not able to contain the data.

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