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Beehaw decides: what is the set of all genders? (strawpoll.com)

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[–] jeff 30 points 3 months ago (20 children)

I'm way overthinking this, but I'm going with finite. It could be an unfathomably large number, but gender is a human construct and there are a finite number of humans. Let's say each human that ever lives has a unique gender identity - there could be billions or trillions, but it would still be finite.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I was going to write up a similar argument, but does a gender exist if no one has it? Because then we might be able to "fill in the gaps" and get it to uncountably infinite.

[–] jeff 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I got to that point in my thinking and then just gave up and posted my first thought.

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