Straight Line of the Day: Can You Identify What You Identify As?

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Why Trans Kids Are Now ‘Coming Out’ as Animals
The Spectator | 4 Mar 2023 | Mary Wakefield

It was announced last week that another gender has been added to the list: nominalgender.

Most news sites reported this in the sort of proud way a zoo might announce the birth of an exciting animal, a baby Komodo dragon maybe – as if the gender had somehow hatched and was waiting to be adopted. You are nominalgender ‘if your gender is so much just you that no one else can even experience it’, I read.

Every day the list of possible gender options grows – metastasizes is a better word: non-binary, genderfluid, bigender, demigender, catgender. On Monday it was reported that a drag queen on the Isle of Man had informed Year 7 pupils that there are exactly 73 genders. When one brave child insisted that there were only two, the drag queen allegedly responded ‘You’ve upset me’ and sent the child out.

What the drag queen might have said, if the rude child hadn’t interrupted, is that though it’s an article of trans faith that there are 73 genders, it’s also often said that the fastest-growing gender subset is xenogender. You’re xenogender if you feel more akin to animals or plants or foods than humans. It’s funny, but it’s also frightening.

There’s a girl on TikTok who explains very seriously that her gender is bird – a cardinal specifically, ey/em pronouns. And several people I’ve found identify as cake.

So, hi, hi, Miss “American Pie.”

Drove my Chevy, called her Bevvy, but the bevy was high…

37 Comments

  1. Sorry, human child, you are not a cat. Maybe if you are really good and super cool for several lifetimes you may come back as a cat.

    I don’t want you to get your hopes up though – you look more like future dog material to me.

  2. So if they identfy as vegetables or food it would be interesting in court..” Your Honour, the defendant kicked the victim right in the beets and carrot” or ” it is alleged that the victim was kicked in the lasagna”

  3. Am I a denizen of the underworld with a great interest in tanks, or am I an armored combat vehicle that has been possessed by a demon?

    I prefer to keep you all guessing.

    Mmwwaaa ha ha ha ha! (Cough, snort.) Okay, I gotta work on that sinister laugh a bit.

  4. Mama was an emu, Dad a ‘bot named Bender They birthed me in a pot, said it’ll be good and tender First I chirped, and then I howled Blew my whistle, called a personal fowl, the local public defender She knew a lot, was hot to trot, got me off, with a warning: Come the next morning this fine feathered robooster, mechanical rooster, never wanted my gender marked return-to-sender I’m happy with what I got

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