The other evening a rightist American male at a BBQ in Montauk said in public, "There are only men and women?"
My response.
"What about hermaphrodites?"
This statement stumped him, mostly because we had met in the late 1970s when the Sexual Revolution was at its height. Genders were just male and female, but these had been determined by religions and not biology of the species, such as unisexual species who procreate through parthenogenesis through which females hatch the next generation from unfertilized eggs, namely examples Amazonian species such as whiptail lizards, some species of salamanders, and certain aphids.
Various human cultures throughout our existence have accepted a multitude of genders. I shape-shift between them all without seeking a definition, although I prefer multi sexual. Then again I am the product of the Sexual Revolution.
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