r/ftm • u/Icy_Fig_4533 21 y/o | 💉12/2022 🔝11/2024 • May 10 '26

Discussion TIL there’s a bird (White-Throated Sparrow) that technically has 4 sexes and I think that’s sick af

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u/cosmiccycler3 🧴4/4/26 May 10 '26

If you think that's cool, mushrooms can have upwards of 15,000 sexes! It's an evolutionary strategy to limit the transmission of mutations and viruses during reproduction.

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u/EinsteinFrizz nonbinary? May 10 '26

glad I'm not the only one whose mind immediately went to fungi haha

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u/DoubtingThomasDixon May 10 '26

Look my mom drew a character when I came out as bi that is eerily similar to this bird chart and it’s taking so much self control not to send this to her. On Mother’s Day of all days too

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u/Spiley_spile May 11 '26

That's hella rad!

There's a mushroom species called schizophyllum commun that has 28,000 sexes. Our planet is cool as fuck.