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I’m not sure the science dudes are trying “desperately” to find some evidence of nature performing gender reassignment as they are just saying - this is an awesome thing. This world is stunning in its beauty and variety.

Many plants in these times do not need gender anymore because mankind has been diddling with them for so long.

Er, that’s probably not exactly right - they still have genders but most plants can produce BOTH pollen and seeds all by themselves. (Don’t lecture me about growing pot, please - I already know.)

Also: Walnuts are delicious and nutritious and the wood is quite valuable.

When I saw this piece it made me think - however - of various weirdos I’ve chatted with online over the years who claimed that they were great magicians and that “a time is coming” when every human will be able to switch genders just by doing a little spell or whatever and I was like “LOL!! If you could do something like that by magic, why not just make yourself the emperor of the world and waste everyone you don’t like and stop worrying about something so insignificant!” (Sometimes I wonder if maybe I’m too hung up on being able to get rid of some people just by thinking about it....... OH WELL LOVE ME AS I AM!!! I WASN’T TALKING ABOUT YOU ANYWAY!)

So then I would get a scolding about how it was “everyone’s” sort of like JOB to make sure that if someone wants to change from a man into a woman (and back again, and then back again after that! like this one dude I met once) then we should do everything possible to help him. (It’s mostly guys that seem interested in this - I’ve never met a woman who talked about wanting to be a man, except for me when I was a kid.) I could tell a lot of these guys were just having like violent fantasies about being able to go into the women’s locker room and wreak havoc, right? “Wait until she finds out I’m NOT REALLY A GIRL! HA HA HA!!” “Bruh, I’m way ahead of you, I’ve got like THREE ACCOUNTS on this lesbo dating site!!! The hot lesbos are falling all over me!”

Moving on: I would listen to this lecture and then point out that having two genders in one body is like a disease and very undesirable and that people who are “born that way” are essentially disabled - I would also point out that parthenogenesis (some very simple life forms can indeed change from male to female and vice versa, like this walnut tree and some protozoa, fish, reptiles, etc) is not desirable, really, either, because it’s usually a reaction to some sort of environmental stress. “Oh, no, all the males couldn’t stop fighting with each other and now they’re all DEAD or incapacitated! What shall we do, my reptilian sisters!” “Some of us must change into males!” *cries of dismay*

I would say, “So, you’re fantasizing about the day that you will be as versatile as an amoeba!” and again point out that if you could do that with magic, you could just as easily obtain whatever the heck you wanted to s3x you up and go for it. It’s like using magic to put on your boots. JUST PUT THE DAMN BOOTS ON, ALREADY, AND GET GOING.

You probably know more now about “nature’s gender reassignments” than you want to! Have a wonderful day! xoxo