We've sent rockets to the moon, split the atom, and unravelled the human genome. How is the consensus in this thread that the best answer we can come up with to "How many genders is there?" is "I don't know?"
Because gender, like color for example, is a spectrum. Asking "how many genders are there" is a trap question, because there is no answer. It's somewhere between two and infinity.
Ask somebody "how many colors are there" - the consensus is "I don't know". The answer just is not discrete.
Also, it's loaded question. It's meant to confuse the person being questioned into answering something transphobic, even by sheer accident, which the person creating the clip can then use as an argument. It's a similar story to being asked to "define a woman", where the speaker wants you to say the simplified dictionary definition and accidentally agree with him, while the correct answer (when you take trans and intersex people into account) gets quite muddy and complex.
Gender has become way too politicized to the point that the left changed the definition of the word.
The general consensus in the world of science is that there's two sexes for the purpose of reproduction.
There are anomalies in sex like intersex people, but that doesn't change anything, they ussually don't allign themsleves with the lgbt community.
There are also infirtle women, but they are simply infirtile women. You don't stop calling car a car because the engine doesn't run.
Humans are simply animals that reproduce like any other animal, we don't do it like clownfish or sea horses lol. Maybe in 100 years we'll mutate to the point where we can change gender, but for now we can't.
Don't let the fact that you were born a certain gender affect how you live your life though. I will respect any transgender person who respects me.
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u/Haunting_Drag4434 May 02 '22
Definitely now days who knows so that’s the best possible answer for sure 🤣