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@augustus I think currently its enbies trying to claim the super oppressed status, I guess the fact that their gender identity has literally no peer-reviewed accepted grounds in medical science is probably pretty oppressive.
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@verius @augustus "enby" = "NB" = non-binary gender assumptions. It's not that there haven't been medical studies about this kind of thing, its that the only ones that found any real basis to this at all were the ones literally trying to fit facts into the assumed conclusion and they are neither peer-reviewed nor accepted by the medical community. There's a reason that the only academia that these people can cite come from some really egregious people.
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@maiyannah @augustus Eh. I know there are people who's sexual organs don't fit well in either the male or female category. But that doesn't mean there are more than two biological sexes.
But I guess gender is more of a feelsy thing than "you need this plus that to generate offspring" (which is pretty well established experimentally).-
@verius Three. Hermaphrodites have been well established as a third gender for a long time, its why I always find talk of the "gender binary" a bit amusing. I suppose the vogue term for that now is "intersex" though, but that highlights a misunderstanding of what hermaphroditism is. You're not "in between" one or the other. You have both, though whether one or both parts work is another matter.
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@verius That said in medicine we have three sexes and two genders, so I guess it's not an inappropriate term. Even a hermaphrodite will have a natural inclination that we've documented through extensive study to identify as male or female rather than purely as a hermaphrodite. Though the latter is largely a result of societal stigmas and as such I have to wonder as "intersex" gains Oppression Points TM if we'll see a statistically-significant upterm in hermparhodites that identify purely as hermaphrodites.
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