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I love it when #scientific articles like this come to light. Take that, #gender #binary thinkers! “One species of fungi, the Schizophyllum commune, really shines when it comes to gender #diversity. The white, fan-shaped mushroom has more than 23,000 different sexual identities/genders, a result of widespread differentiation in the genetic locations that govern its sexual behavior. To mate, all a fungus has to do is bump up against another member of its species and let their cells fuse together…” Schizo & Commune is so very apt a name for this planet-sib. Go create even more genders, fungal dudeness! 🥰 https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-this-fungus-has-over-20-000-sexes