WARNING [TL;DR] A bit on why I am all for gender recategorization.
So there is some clarification, I do identify myself as a straight cisgender male. Always have been. That is beside the point.
This objection to any kind of gender change I find not only objectionable to the human race yet I see it as objectionable to even nature itself.
If we ever encounter any kind of life outside of this world, intelligent or not, we will likely find this is even a far truer fact.
Life out there beyond this world is not likely to be anything like life on earth, which is more diversified than most even are willing to accept.
For now, I can only give examples of different species on this world. Yet we must as well consider our very own vaste differences. Like race, hair colors, eye colors, heights and weights and those are just a few differences.
Yet when it comes to genders the alarms come up. We become defensive and intolerant of anything different. So we become picky to anything different than ourselves.
This discrimination actually is counter productive. For we all know deep down the results of reproduction of similar types. It's obviously shown in the inbreeding of similar animals. Not diversifying the animals breed.
Yet again that is not the only way that nature shows the problem. For nature goes as far as this very same gender reorientation. This is the example I am choosing to talk about that few have admitted is an example.
We must consider it though, for more than just that is awaiting out in space. Likely the very reason why some don't want anyone to explore space because of what "might" be found out there.
Fear is ever out greatest enemy. Fear of gender orientation is as well something for those types of people.
As to nature itself. I could go into homosexuality in animals. That obviously isn't enough. These fear driven people have come up with their own religious values that are completely written in their own stone minds. Homosexuality of any type is obviously a sin. Despite the examples in nature.
So I must go way beyond what is written in the book of their minds. Nature has proven to have those extreme examples that are not written in their books.
Some examples are the seahorse where the male carries the eggs. That obviously isn't enough. For decades they have said that's an exception.
Then shows up about the asexual whippedtailed lizard. Where there are only females...
https://a-z-animals.com/animals/whiptail-lizard/#single-animal-text
And absolutely no males at all.
That of course was as well an exception.
Then came along the vaste differences in fungus with Meiosis, Plasmogamy and Karyogamy fungi....
https://collegedunia.com/exams/sexual-reproduction-in-fungi-biology-articleid-1302
Of course their explanation is those are not animals, as well of course they disregarded the lowly whippedtailed lizard and the egg carrying seahorse.
Now comes to the really interesting sexual classifications that soon came after these unique fungi.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031617/
Isogamous organisms which they include these unique fungi and far more, that defied classification into the two dimensional male/female world.
This classification threw open the world to a new truth. And further examples followed with things that currently have no explanation at all.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/these-female-insects-have-male-type-sex-organs-evolution-explains-why/2019/02/01/765049da-2587-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.html
They call it a female and male for convenience. Both actually are neither one because she penetrates him and he accepts her.
We are not all that different. Some may wish to cherish their religious books and flat world theories, yet more and more is being discovered. More and more is disputing their world views.
That's exactly what they are afraid of. Change to them is fear.
If we should ever manage to make it out into space these limited ideas will have to be left here. For the universe is far broader than those limited ideas will fit. We must expand our thinking not limit our thinking.
For there is no two way only (male/female) thinking out in space. There is more than three dimensional type of thinking out in space, for the fourth dimension is time itself.
This is not a debate. This is solely for informational purposes. You can make your own post if you wish to debate this.
You can attempt to argue with the separate authors given in the links. Not going to happen I believe. 😆
This objection to any kind of gender change I find not only objectionable to the human race yet I see it as objectionable to even nature itself.
If we ever encounter any kind of life outside of this world, intelligent or not, we will likely find this is even a far truer fact.
Life out there beyond this world is not likely to be anything like life on earth, which is more diversified than most even are willing to accept.
For now, I can only give examples of different species on this world. Yet we must as well consider our very own vaste differences. Like race, hair colors, eye colors, heights and weights and those are just a few differences.
Yet when it comes to genders the alarms come up. We become defensive and intolerant of anything different. So we become picky to anything different than ourselves.
This discrimination actually is counter productive. For we all know deep down the results of reproduction of similar types. It's obviously shown in the inbreeding of similar animals. Not diversifying the animals breed.
Yet again that is not the only way that nature shows the problem. For nature goes as far as this very same gender reorientation. This is the example I am choosing to talk about that few have admitted is an example.
We must consider it though, for more than just that is awaiting out in space. Likely the very reason why some don't want anyone to explore space because of what "might" be found out there.
Fear is ever out greatest enemy. Fear of gender orientation is as well something for those types of people.
As to nature itself. I could go into homosexuality in animals. That obviously isn't enough. These fear driven people have come up with their own religious values that are completely written in their own stone minds. Homosexuality of any type is obviously a sin. Despite the examples in nature.
So I must go way beyond what is written in the book of their minds. Nature has proven to have those extreme examples that are not written in their books.
Some examples are the seahorse where the male carries the eggs. That obviously isn't enough. For decades they have said that's an exception.
Then shows up about the asexual whippedtailed lizard. Where there are only females...
https://a-z-animals.com/animals/whiptail-lizard/#single-animal-text
And absolutely no males at all.
That of course was as well an exception.
Then came along the vaste differences in fungus with Meiosis, Plasmogamy and Karyogamy fungi....
https://collegedunia.com/exams/sexual-reproduction-in-fungi-biology-articleid-1302
Of course their explanation is those are not animals, as well of course they disregarded the lowly whippedtailed lizard and the egg carrying seahorse.
Now comes to the really interesting sexual classifications that soon came after these unique fungi.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031617/
Isogamous organisms which they include these unique fungi and far more, that defied classification into the two dimensional male/female world.
Glossary of terms and definitions used.
Anisogamy: Size dimorphism of gametes: one gamete type is larger (e.g. ova) than the other (e.g. spermatozoa), and gametic fusion (now) occurs only between the larger and the smaller gametes.
Facultative sex: Sex that is not obligate; facultatively sexual organisms can perform both asexual and sexual life cycles.
Hermaphroditism (in animals), monoecy (in plants): Systems in which male and female function co-occur in one individual, i.e. a single individual produces both small and large gametes.
Heterothallism: Reproductive systems in fungi where syngamy can only occur between haploid cells carrying different mating-type alleles.
Homothallism: A reproductive system in fungi that is often simply called self-compatibility; by a stricter definition, a homothallic, haploid individual is able to mate with its own mitotic descendants [16].
Isogamy: All gametes in isogamous gametic systems are of similar size. They are not identical, however, as isogamy is almost always associated with mating types. The word originates from iso = equal + gamia (from the Greek gamos) = marriage.
Karyogamy: The fusion of two gametic nuclei.
Mating types: Mating types are gamete genotypes for molecular mechanisms that regulate compatibility between fusing gametes. Mating types guarantee disassortative fusion in both isogamous and anisogamous gametic systems: if the gametes are composed of + and − mating types, then only fusions of + and − gametes are possible. Isogamous species often have two mating types, but some species have several mating types, even up to hundreds.
Separate sexes, gonochorism (in animals), dioecy (in plants): Systems in which the two sexes (males and females) are separate, and male individuals by definition produce small gametes and female individuals produce large gametes.
Syngamy: The fusion of two gametes to form a zygote.
Anisogamy: Size dimorphism of gametes: one gamete type is larger (e.g. ova) than the other (e.g. spermatozoa), and gametic fusion (now) occurs only between the larger and the smaller gametes.
Facultative sex: Sex that is not obligate; facultatively sexual organisms can perform both asexual and sexual life cycles.
Hermaphroditism (in animals), monoecy (in plants): Systems in which male and female function co-occur in one individual, i.e. a single individual produces both small and large gametes.
Heterothallism: Reproductive systems in fungi where syngamy can only occur between haploid cells carrying different mating-type alleles.
Homothallism: A reproductive system in fungi that is often simply called self-compatibility; by a stricter definition, a homothallic, haploid individual is able to mate with its own mitotic descendants [16].
Isogamy: All gametes in isogamous gametic systems are of similar size. They are not identical, however, as isogamy is almost always associated with mating types. The word originates from iso = equal + gamia (from the Greek gamos) = marriage.
Karyogamy: The fusion of two gametic nuclei.
Mating types: Mating types are gamete genotypes for molecular mechanisms that regulate compatibility between fusing gametes. Mating types guarantee disassortative fusion in both isogamous and anisogamous gametic systems: if the gametes are composed of + and − mating types, then only fusions of + and − gametes are possible. Isogamous species often have two mating types, but some species have several mating types, even up to hundreds.
Separate sexes, gonochorism (in animals), dioecy (in plants): Systems in which the two sexes (males and females) are separate, and male individuals by definition produce small gametes and female individuals produce large gametes.
Syngamy: The fusion of two gametes to form a zygote.
This classification threw open the world to a new truth. And further examples followed with things that currently have no explanation at all.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/these-female-insects-have-male-type-sex-organs-evolution-explains-why/2019/02/01/765049da-2587-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.html
They call it a female and male for convenience. Both actually are neither one because she penetrates him and he accepts her.
Energy, ecology and sex
Although anatomically exceptional, the genitals of Afrotrogla and Neotrogla actually reaffirm what sexual selection theory predicts: Selective pressures will act on the sex that invests less energy into mating and needs access to a limited resource. The emergence of particular genital structures is not unique to one sex or the other, then, but rather a general feature of energy expenditure and evolutionary diversification at work.
“It really challenges our notions about sex,” said Justa Heinen-Kay, an evolutionary ecologist doing postdoctoral work at the University of Minnesota. “Nothing is inherently female or inherently male. It’s all context dependent.”
Diane Kelly, a senior research fellow in behavioral neuroscience at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, who was not involved in this research, echoed Heinen-Kay’s view. “Animals evolve whatever happens to work,” she said.
Heinen-Kay also noted the broader implications of the discovery. “Both in evolution and in society at large, there’s been a lot of discussion about what is gender, what is sex, what is natural,” she said. “I think studies like these are important for shedding light on these discussions, for showing how diverse nature is and that there’s really not just one way that male and female manifest.”
Although anatomically exceptional, the genitals of Afrotrogla and Neotrogla actually reaffirm what sexual selection theory predicts: Selective pressures will act on the sex that invests less energy into mating and needs access to a limited resource. The emergence of particular genital structures is not unique to one sex or the other, then, but rather a general feature of energy expenditure and evolutionary diversification at work.
“It really challenges our notions about sex,” said Justa Heinen-Kay, an evolutionary ecologist doing postdoctoral work at the University of Minnesota. “Nothing is inherently female or inherently male. It’s all context dependent.”
Diane Kelly, a senior research fellow in behavioral neuroscience at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, who was not involved in this research, echoed Heinen-Kay’s view. “Animals evolve whatever happens to work,” she said.
Heinen-Kay also noted the broader implications of the discovery. “Both in evolution and in society at large, there’s been a lot of discussion about what is gender, what is sex, what is natural,” she said. “I think studies like these are important for shedding light on these discussions, for showing how diverse nature is and that there’s really not just one way that male and female manifest.”
We are not all that different. Some may wish to cherish their religious books and flat world theories, yet more and more is being discovered. More and more is disputing their world views.
That's exactly what they are afraid of. Change to them is fear.
If we should ever manage to make it out into space these limited ideas will have to be left here. For the universe is far broader than those limited ideas will fit. We must expand our thinking not limit our thinking.
For there is no two way only (male/female) thinking out in space. There is more than three dimensional type of thinking out in space, for the fourth dimension is time itself.
This is not a debate. This is solely for informational purposes. You can make your own post if you wish to debate this.
You can attempt to argue with the separate authors given in the links. Not going to happen I believe. 😆
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