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by omgomgomgomg 1211 days ago
Well, I sometimes wish I was born an eagle because I like travelling, flying and chasing the sun.

I am not going to try to have a surgery to make it happen.

There is nobody with no gender, there are rarities with natural double gender features, but strictly speaking, nature assigns a gender during early pregnancy.

All the ideas about gender changes occur to people later on and based on personal feelings/factors. The mind is something that develops by education and experience, not genetic urges as far I am aware.

If schools and parents would educate kids saying theres no such thing like gender and you get to choose and society lets the promoters of such go rampant, I imagine this would not lead to a net positive outcome.

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You are using gender to mean both sex and gender. You are assigned a biological sex by… biology. You get to choose your own gender.
Well, fair enough, that concept has never been discussed during my education(that ended 20 years ago), so I am not in the loop except from what I have seen online about it. It seems it got a bit traction in the US, in Europe is relatively unheard of as of yet.
There are nonbinary people, such as myself. Public Universal Friend is another notable nonbinary person from history.
Thanks for the heads up, please keep in mind I have never heard of that term until recently.

In Europe this used to be called brashly scheduled cross dressing or something along the lines.