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Are more inclusive gender options on Wrong Planet profiles a good idea?
Yes 80%  80%  [ 43 ]
No 13%  13%  [ 7 ]
It doesn't apply to me/don't care 7%  7%  [ 4 ]
Total votes : 54

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01 Mar 2011, 6:33 am

visagrunt wrote:
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So what are they, gender benders? Its just another case of society gone made in my view. If they feel inside they are the opposite to what they were born as, then they are either that gender or the one they are currently, nothing in between.


Okay, let's leave gender dysphoria to the side for the moment.

What of people who are intersexed? Where do you classify people with Kleinfelter's Syndrome or Turner's Syndrome? Conservatively, there are perhaps 6 million people on the planet with sex chromosome abnormalities. Do you suggest that everyone must simply be classified by their external genitalia?

Certainly 99.9% of people fit within the simple model of sexual dimorphism. But we are intelligent enough to encompass a broader understanding of what it means to be human. We are capable of understanding that the categories of male and female are sufficient for the vast majority, but they are not universal.


See I did say physically to volo, but she said no not physically. What about hermaphrodite's? Like the female runner who won the gold medal by a mile. She was tested for drugs and stuff, turned out she had some male organs inside I think. And they removed them. She's still a woman.


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02 May 2011, 6:49 pm

Eh, a prominent autistic self-advocate (Jim Sinclair) was not on the gender binary. Xe was neither male nor female, and non-binary gender was absolutely not a trend at the time. Apparently, gender variance is fairly common among people on the autistic spectrum.

I looked up and resurrected this thread because I would dearly love to see non-binary gender options.



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29 Dec 2016, 8:52 am

https://youtu.be/_VeLOIxiG4c

genderless people exist, check out Toby.



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29 Dec 2016, 3:14 pm

Okaaaay. I think people might be getting a bit to caught up in all the tiny details and extensive views on gender descriptions, and are forgetting what this thread is for. This is what I think: The 'gender' option on your profile is a very vague, broad setting that is not designed to give away specific or lengthy explanations. Regardless what you believe about your own personal identity and views, the 'gender' setting is not the place to make this known. It's there to give an extremely rough idea of the person associated with the username. For that reason, I think it should be as simple as Male, Female, Other and Unspecified. Anything more specific is best left up to individual discussion, outside of that setting.