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>You might find more luck with the term “intersex” or in more historical sources, hermaphroditism. Not exactly. Intersex only refers to hermaphroditism in humans, mainly for political reasons. In all other species, its still called hermaphroditism.
Intersex includes conditions hermaphroditism doesn't.
"At first Mr Hill wondered if the bird was leucistic - a term that means the specimen would have a loss of pigmentation in its feathers, but would not be half-female, half-male. But after seeing mobile phone pictures, he suspected it had what is called bilateral gynandromorphism, which is when a bird would have both a functioning ovary and a functioning single testis." So, uh, it would have been interesting if they h…
I suspect it had to do with sex-associated traits were split down the middle. I'm only an amateur, but I can see that the right side has a male's long tail feathers while the left side does not. I imagine there are other details that would be apparent to an expert.
Just alone the complexity of something like bifurcated sex in a bird makes it extremely unlikely that that is actually what is going on here.
You are far more likely also suffering from the mania of the day regarding sex and gender, which had you rationalizing all things in those terms. Remember Occam’s Razor.
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This is not an endocrine disruption but a genetic condition.
unfortunately, endocrine disruptors causes genetic conditions that mutate through offspring of future generations [1]... [1] https://www.axios.com/falling-sperm-count-endocrine-disrupti...
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I think the original reason was for neopronouns, or pronouns that were recently invented. At some point there was quite a push to have a dedicated gender neutral singular (I believe it was ze/zir/zir/zirs/zirself) and so people who were using those pronouns listed them all out so people would know all the different forms.
And in that case, it would make sense, since one can't be assumed to know all the cases. But with “he” one can be assumed to know it, and I find it looking rather weird to state it. It's as though one put “Argentinian/Argentinians” in one's profile. — yes, I happen to know what the plural of “Argentinian” is.
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I think the main reason is that, especially if used in general text (e.g. a general description field, not something specifically reserved for this), it makes it a bit easier to recognize as pronoun information by always following a distinctive pattern.
I would think that most people would understand a Twitter line such as “Algeria/programmer/he/FOSS activist”, which is how it is often phrased with the other things in such fields.
Language goes through a natural process of elision, of dropping what's unnecessary. This is no different.
It's generally cis allies who put "He/Him/His" in caps and stuff anyway. Most of the trans people I know have just switched to saying "he" or "he/him".
Anyone during childhood have to study a particular state? I was given Pennsylvania in grade school. Basically a poster everyone does about state birds, flowers. All I remember about this poster which I had forgotten about until now is the state bird, cardinal. I think it is also the only red bird of this size?
I think it's lovely how accessible high quality photographic equipment has become. Naturalism is much easier when it's not just the "professionals" who have access to high-quality telephoto equipment. These clear, detailed photographs were taken in a rush! Technology is so good that even entry level cameras have sensors that put professional camera sensors from fifteen years ago to shame. It's easy to feel like we ar…
It’s much easier than in the film days. Great equipment can still give great results. I met this guy on a walk on the north shore of Massachusetts. with a 600mm lens. Much better reach than mine. https://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanbatley/ As opposed to my setting up a GoPro on my moms feeder. Which is fun but not quite the same (she has a normal male cardinal) https://youtu.be/BXMRen6lKEw
Darn chemtrails changing cardinals (sarcasm)
"At first Mr Hill wondered if the bird was leucistic - a term that means the specimen would have a loss of pigmentation in its feathers, but would not be half-female, half-male. But after seeing mobile phone pictures, he suspected it had what is called bilateral gynandromorphism, which is when a bird would have both a functioning ovary and a functioning single testis." So, uh, it would have been interesting if they h…