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  2. Temperature-dependent sex determination - Wikipedia

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    As sex-determining mechanisms, TSD and genetic sex determination (GSD) should be considered in an equivalent manner, [8] which can lead to reconsidering the status of fish species that are claimed to have TSD when submitted to extreme temperatures instead of the temperature experienced during development in the wild, since changes in sex ratio ...

  3. Sequential hermaphroditism - Wikipedia

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    Sequential hermaphroditism occurs in many fish, gastropods, and plants. Species that can undergo these changes do so as a normal event within their reproductive cycle, usually cued by either social structure or the achievement of a certain age or size. [3]

  4. Transgender literature - Wikipedia

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    Camila Sosa Villada, author of Las malas (2019). Among the best known works trans literature in Spanish language are: Hell Has No Limits, a novel by Chilean José Donoso published in 1966 whose protagonist is Manuela, a trans woman who lives with her daughter in a deteriorated town called El Olivo; [11] Cobra (1972), by Cuban writer Severo Sarduy, that uses an experimental narration to tell ...

  5. Stoplight parrotfish - Wikipedia

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    The stoplight parrotfish is a protogynous hermaphrodite that shows full sexual dichromatism, meaning that it changes its sex from female to male during its lifespan, and its color changes with its sex change. [4] The sex change is most likely due to the control of hormones, in particular, 11-ketetestosterone (11-KT). [5]

  6. Muxe - Wikipedia

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    The Zapotec word muxe is thought to derive from the Spanish word for "woman", mujer. [3] In the 16th-century, the letter x had a sound similar to "sh" (see History of the Spanish language § Modern development of the Old Spanish sibilants). The word muxe is a gender-neutral term, among the many other words in the language of the Zapotec. Unlike ...

  7. Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender

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    Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender is the usage of wording that is balanced in its treatment of the genders in a non-grammatical sense. For example, advocates of gender-neutral language challenge the traditional use of masculine nouns and pronouns (e.g. "man" and "he") when referring to two or more genders or to a person of ...

  8. Intersex rights in Spain - Wikipedia

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    As a result, the process of changing genders involves adjusting the legal gender stated on the DNI, the Spanish National Identity card. [28] However, according to the current Spanish law passed in 3/2007, hormone treatment is required for two years to be able to change legal gender on the DNI, and to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria. [29]

  9. Grammatical gender in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] In terms of importance, the masculine gender is the default or unmarked, while the feminine gender is marked or distinct. [2] Many gender-related features are common across Romance languages. However, Spanish differs from other Romance languages, like French and Italian, in its kinship terms.