In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️‍⚧️ eat shit transphobes

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• als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Y’all ever undergo a sex change due to environmental stress?

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No but a trans friend of mine is having enviromental stress.

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    • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m cis and they give me environmental stress. “Dude, I’m just trying to order lunch. Why are you sharing these inside thoughts with me?”

      I wouldn’t trade it, but one bad thing about being an old white guy is assholes think I’m safe to unmask around, and Christ it skeeves me out. No, man, take those fucking thoughts to your grave.

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  • skvlp@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Show this to republicans, or similar groups, and they’ll lose their shit and have a really bad day 😃

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• Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People have no idea what is or isn’t natural. A lot of animals and plants change sex due to various factors during their life.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_hermaphroditism

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s the same idiots who said being gay is unnatural, completely ignoring the multitude of gay animals.

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• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hey, I think this is highly toxic!

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hue hue hue

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  • plactagonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Every part of the plant except the “berry” (it isn’t berry) is toxic.

    I want to try eating it but I heard that it isn’t that good.

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• damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  🤓 Being trans has to do with gender identity, not sex. The whole foundation of transgenderism as a concept is that sex and gender identity are independent elements of a person. So as a corollary (I think, haven’t used that word in a while lol), no non-sapient creature can ever be trans, because you need consciousness to have a gender identity in the first place.

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  • dvoraqs@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think you could say part of one’s identity exists outside of the person. Their self-identity should be respected and often will align with what they project outwards, but that’s where people get confused about a person and then stubborn ones get fed up with the whole idea.

    Anyway, in this case since the tree lacks sentience, it wouldn’t have an internalized gender that we could know, but we can see that its sexual characteristics have changed and give it a transexual label. The trans label can cover both.

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Okay but the tree is still trans.

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• stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Many plants have both sexes at the same time, it is not uncommon. And some plants change sex under some circumstances, e.g. Papaya trees can do that

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• Tracaine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cool. Cool. That’s something the tree does on it’s own though, right? It doesn’t need to have pieces cut off or anyone to inject chemicals? Just curious, socratic style question, not condemnation.

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  • Fourth@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    True. I do I think a human could internally decide to be trans, make any or no changes, declare it to others and still be valid as trans. Humans just really value certain observable indicators to tell what’s going on. There’s some kind of interesting metaphor about how humans being this way gives us a lot of interesting freedom to express ourselves but also limits us in many ways overlaid with what the tree is doing.

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  • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Trans people are in the Bible. Elohim made Eve from a male rib, and Jesus had no Y chromosome.

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• flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, plants really don’t have to deal with our binary bullshit. Most of them don’t have any sex because they have perfect flowers anyways, meaning their flowers have male and female gametes.

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• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was today old when I found out a yew is an evergreen and that I grew up around them (because I remember squishing those berries as a kid). Because they have needles I thought they were some kind of hemlock, and I had it in my head that yew leaves looked something like a willow’s.

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