@skulljudenfreund What is a person who has a penis and a vagina, or neither?

@freemo a person who has a penis and a vagina is a hermaphrodite. I have no idea what someone is called who has neither

@skulljudenfreund Well, intersexed is the term, not hermaphrodite. But yea, as long as we recognize its not just the two options for people.

@freemo well, obviously I'm an archaic human being who has no idea what the "proper" terms for anything are these days

@skulljudenfreund Science can be hard to keep up with when it comes to terminology

@freemo @skulljudenfreund Although that doesn't really excuse being willfully ignorant of new technology either, like a lot of people seem to choose to be around here.

@LWFlouisa @freemo
What new technology am I allegedly being wilfully ignorant of?

@skulljudenfreund @freemo Nah it was a reference to someone I know IRL.

@LWFlouisa @freemo
OK

@freemo @skulljudenfreund Not two, sure. But certainly not 10-90+.

Mostly female, and mostly male and either genders, nore is transgender a gender in its own right.

This is perhaps my one issue about Hubzilla, and anything else forked from Friendica.

They don't seem to get that Its male, female, or intersex. Not ninety plus genders that have nothing to do with biology, and are just redefining the same thing is not how you'd be accepting of trans folk.

@freemo @skulljudenfreund See here is a good compromise to me, Pleroma doesn't even tag gender in its profile database.

Much less, ... confusing and useless than Hubzilla and other things based on Friendica.

@LWFlouisa
The number would be infinite. Sex is a spectrum, it has two ends to it (male and female) with an infinite number of intermediary manifestations.
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@LWFlouisa
Also the discussion was about sex, gender is a different, though related, idea. Gender too though is a bipolar spectrum. If people are saying there are 90+ they probably are referring to orientation.
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@freemo @skulljudenfreund Yea that would make more sense.

If a social network reflected everything, that would be ... very hard to program. I like the compromise Pleroma did. Justnot list gender as a marker.

@LWFlouisa
Or just offer lots of markers and let people use them as they wish with everything being optional.
@skulljudenfreund

@freemo @skulljudenfreund Pardon, very hard to mark down I mean. Some people get a little ... finnicky if I use the wrong terms for web development.

@freemo @skulljudenfreund Gender does seem to often get confused for sex.

@LWFlouisa
Some people want that distinction to go away, so often the confusion is intentional.
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@freemo @skulljudenfreund Kind of makes me wonder the real intentions of Friendica and Hubzilla.

Cause this list in question confuses orientation, gender, and sex big time.:/

I might see if I can find a picture of the list I refer to.

@freemo @skulljudenfreund Coincedentally hubzilla.eu seems to have gone down.

@skulljudenfreund Thats an archaic term that is no longer used. The proper term is intersex.