Mary? Is that you? Getty ....... It’s become an “article of trans faith” that there are “exactly 73 genders”, says Mary Wakefield in The Spectator. The fastest-growing subset is said to be “xenogender” – people who feel “more akin to animals or plants or foods than humans”. There’s a girl on TikTok who explains very seriously that her gender is “bird” – specifically a cardinal, with “ey/em” pronouns. There’s a horse child who is taken out by school staff for gallops; “a boy dinosaur who is fed on strips of meat”. I’ve also found several people who “identify as cake”. There is some disagreement in the community about how it feels to be cake, but in general I gather it’s a sort of “sweet, fluffy feeling; a lightness”. “No one who’s cake-gender can have tasted a cake I’ve baked.”
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[quote] “exactly 73 genders”, says Mary Wakefield[/quote]
If that isn't supposed to be satire then Ms. Wakefield is a very strange or perhaps merely exceedingly gullible writer. There are a number of people here on SW who call themselves trans and more, like me, who use the T label in in our profiles because it is the nearest that SW has; I very much doubt that any of us think that “exactly 73 genders” has any meaning whatsoever.
