Gender variation in plant and animal kingdom?

[Father Way]

Skip to 9:10.

[Natkat]

remind me of this

[pretty]

That doesn't really make sense to me. That's sexual variance, not gender variance.

And it would be kinda silly to call plants "transsexual" when their normal sexual behavior is not a male-female binary. I just don't see how it relates to human transsexualism, since the whole issue with human transsexualism is that the person is generally physically not intersexed or hermaphroditic, but behaves in a different way. So even the existence of hermaphroditic animals doesn't really seem to mean too much.

There might be animals that behave like the opposite sex despite not having physical characteristics of the opposite sex though, and I think that would be more meaningful.

[veritatemfurto]

The excerpt makes more sense if watching the episode from the very beginning (part 1).... in which case this would be better in the videos section.


what I got out of it is that the assumption that "life existing outside of a binary system is an anomaly" is clearly false. There are a multitude of animal life and almost all of plant life that clearly show that such occurrences are in fact common in natural science...

The preliminary studies mentioned in the video also give basis that some TS cases may indeed be an I-S condition of the brain (particularly the hypothalamus area)... There already is another thread on that topic elsewhere in the forums.

[Natkat]

they dont say the plants are transexual, but there neither male or female, and just put alot of exemples of gender varitaton from diffrent kinds and diffrent animals and creatures.

transexual animals are not 100% to be knowed, there is alot of animals who behave in certain ways who seams very likely to be as it had been born as the opposite sex, However you still cant ask a animal if it feel like a boy or a girl. maybe in the future we could find a gorilla with sign languarge we could ask, but so far we cant comunicate enought with animals to know for sure, how they fell.