The Third Gender

 You will be surprised, why 'the Third Gender' is of interest to someone not being able to eat sugar.

But things quite honestly annoy me, especially when they are handled with stupidity.

And this question about the 'Third Gender', especially here in Germany, is handled with more stupidity than one would expect.

For example, that the naming 'the third gender' is just unreflectedly translated into German with 'das dritte Geschlecht' and used as a political slogan to force people to 'gender', is so out of place that you would expect people - especially the ones meant by this supposed 'more tolerance'-campaign - would protest by now. (But so far, I can't see any protests far and wide.)

German as a language per se has three genders - male, felmale and the third for things.

So if you say 'third gender' in Germany would automatically mean 'things'. So to propose that people in Germany declare themselves of belonging to the 'third gender' should raise astonishment.

Now, what could they have done? Declared themselves the fourth gender?

Of course they did not want that, as that would suggest, that they are beneath the previous three and only take fourth place (which by the way once again suggests what women always critizise - females come behind men and so are only regarded as second best. Though I want to add, that in history and especially in addresses in Germany, the female has the higher social status and comes before a man. Just our modern times forgot that appreciation of the female ability to procreate and guaranty the continued existence of our genes, which was the more valued position that needed and had a right to be protected.)

So, no fourth place for the 'new' gender.

But the greatest irony of it all is, that the short version for the 'new' third gender is 'D', once again an unreflected taking over of the English word 'diverse', which conveniently exists in Germany as well as 'divers'.

But D also is the initial for 'Ding', the German word for 'thing', which now completes the irony with the 'third gender'.

So, who in Germany willingly declares him-/her-/itself to belong to the 'third gender', if he is not a jokester? (Or should I have said jokester:innen?)

As a result, I don't trust any statistics the researchers come up with, as I doupt the right mind of people declaring themselves of belonging to any of those new categories or 'creations' of supposed 'inclusion', while separating so far included varieties of one sole thing, a human heart.

By the way, in my opinion a bit of tolerance towards our neighbors would come a long way in making stupid groupings and naming-exclusions unnecessary, as one would recognise how colorful the world really is and appreciate it in all its bandwidth.

P.S.: As usual, just my personal opinion. If you don't agree, I did not force you to read it. So go and vent somewhere else.