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I thought the two genders were non-binary and binary?
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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Analog and binary.
Well analog is pretty much a spectrum, so not wrong!
Analog and digital or nothing at all
Analog and cybergoth
There are 10 genders:
0: binary 1: non-binary
And also 2-F additional hexadecigenders you didn't expect me to mention.
The 2 genders are True and False. True for "I have a gender" and False for "I have no gender".
Option<OldGender>? Or maybe Either<&'a str, OldGender>?
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Even if they want to believe that there are only two genders that doesn't mean that someone can't transition from one to the other. Even under the rules they are so desperate to establish trans people still exist.
The point is to carve away at our community piece by piece. They mostly lost the fight against binary trans people in public perception, so they've retreated to attacking nonbinary people. If they successfully turn public perception against us, they'll come for the binaries next.
Not to mention the existence of intersex people...
My little brother, I'm fairly certain, pioneered this technique in dealing with our racist parents.
My parents would say something casually awful, about LGBTQ, Black, Latino, or Muslim people and my lil bro would sarcastically, and enthusiastically agree, stringing their point along to the logical conclusion of their hate-centered universe, and watch them get more and more uncomfortable.
example:
parents: "Black people are just genetically more violent"
lil Bro: "Oh yeah, they're genetically inferior all right, and genes can be altered before birth, so we should treat melanin as a genetic anomaly and edit it entirely out. we should put the rest in cages and make them perform like in a zoo. Everyone who isn't perfectly milky alabaster white should be shot out of a cannon and into the sun. My freckles are a sin to god and we should cut them out of our bodies ritualistically. My friend Gary is black, let's go fucking shoot him for it."
Parents: 😶
I had been away for a minute and watched it happen for the first time, and I laughed, applauded, and clapped my bro on the back... So proud of him.
gender is binary. Your gender is either 0 or 1
since people have yet to associate numbers with gender expression , you can define the 2 genders however you want
Perhaps gender is a quantum state and no one knows what or where it is until you measure it and its quantum state collapses
That's unironically a good way of thinking about it.
One of my proudest achievements in life is having used particle-wave duality to explain non-binary gender to a bunch of cis-het physics-bros, and also using non-binary gender to explain quantum physics to queer folk. I'm disproportionately pleased with having been able to use this explanation successfully both ways.
(I also think it says a lot about me that I have found myself in situations where it isn't uncommon that I get an opportunity to attempt this. Explaining gender to passively bigoted cis-hets feels like it's part of my ethical duty to the world, but menacing my friends with quantum physics monologues is just for fun)
you can define the 2 genders however you want
Excuse me, in binary there are 10 genders.
Gender is binary. I'm 10110110
That's amazing! I'm 01001001. We should meet up.
👉👈
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If you're currently at a 0, is it possible to engender yourself up to 1?
Why you want their to be only two genders, mate? You want to be around more men, issit?
I still love Biden's answer to the question how many genders there are
He probably didn't come up with it but it's still so funny to me
What was it
"At least 3"
Okay that's a great answer
I've never seen such an intolerant post. You're either old enough to rent ultra-porn, or you need a fake ID
I have an agender but I keep forgetting to check it
Do you have dyslgbtqia?
AC and DC.
"Okay. Not going to lie. That's kinda hot."
"I know, right?"
No bonus panel
edit see grue comment
bonus panel
Worth the wait!
But only because I am one of the three!
There's a red button
i took the hashtag away from the link. try again
That's a hash character, or fragment identifier. A hashtag is a topic keyword introduced by a hash character, not the character itself.
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Seems to me the number of genders depends on the culture. If your culture says there are only two genders, then there are two, in that culture. If your culture says there are more than two, then there are more than two, in that culture.
What? Are you implying gender is some sort of communal assemblage.
That it was constructed by society??
I dunno, sounds soulist
The problem with this argument is that the anti-trans people will just say "our culture only has two" and that will be the end of their argument.
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What if you are both?
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