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Stories where either the whole species is neuter; there is a neuter sex; or members of the species pass thru a neuter phase | Stories where either the whole species is neuter; there is a neuter sex; or members of the species pass thru a neuter phase. | ||
* Betan hermaphordites ([[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s Vorkosigan Saga) | * Betan hermaphordites ([[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s Vorkosigan Saga) | ||
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* Children are gender-neutral and choose at puberty. ([[Vonda McIntyre]]. "Wings" in <I>The Alien Condition</I>, edited by Stephen Goldin (New York: Ballantine, 1973)) | * Children are gender-neutral and choose at puberty. ([[Vonda McIntyre]]. "Wings" in <I>The Alien Condition</I>, edited by Stephen Goldin (New York: Ballantine, 1973)) | ||
* A race of humans appears to be neuter. ([[Theodore Sturgeon]]'s [[Venus Plus X]] (1960)) | * A race of humans appears to be neuter. ([[Theodore Sturgeon]]'s [[Venus Plus X]] (1960)) | ||
[[Image:STTNG-Outcast-Soren-headshot.jpg|right|thumbnail|180px|Soren (played by Melinda Culea), a member of the androgynous species, the J'naii, on [[ST:TNG]] episode "[[The Outcast (ST:TNG episode)|The Outcast]]" (1992)]] | |||
* The J'naii, a humanoid species that has "evolved" beyond gender. Unclear whether androgyny is merely a social convention or whether it is also a biological change. ([[ST:TNG]] episode [[The Outcast (ST:TNG episode)|The Outcast]] (1992)) | * The J'naii, a humanoid species that has "evolved" beyond gender. Unclear whether androgyny is merely a social convention or whether it is also a biological change. ([[ST:TNG]] episode [[The Outcast (ST:TNG episode)|The Outcast]] (1992)) | ||
==Other Possibilities== | ==Other Possibilities== | ||
Revision as of 05:34, 20 February 2007
Stories where either the whole species is neuter; there is a neuter sex; or members of the species pass thru a neuter phase.
- Betan hermaphordites (Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga)
- Children are neuter (Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed (1983))
- Children aer neuter (David Gerrold's Moonstar Odyssey (1977))
- Children are neuter until adolescence, and then become male, female, or neuter. Carolyn Ives Gilman's Halfway Human (1998))
- --. (M. C. A. Hogarth's "Freedom, Spiced and Drunk" (2002))
- --. (Kameron Hurley's "Genderbending at the Madhattered" (2004))
- Gethenians, who are neuter unless in kemmer. Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness)
- Children are gender-neutral and choose at puberty. (Vonda McIntyre. "Wings" in The Alien Condition, edited by Stephen Goldin (New York: Ballantine, 1973))
- A race of humans appears to be neuter. (Theodore Sturgeon's Venus Plus X (1960))
- The J'naii, a humanoid species that has "evolved" beyond gender. Unclear whether androgyny is merely a social convention or whether it is also a biological change. (ST:TNG episode The Outcast (1992))
Other Possibilities
- Androgyne character in R. M. Meluch's Wind Child (1982) (single individual, or member of androgyne species?)
- Bilker, Harvey L. "Genetic Faux Pas" in Thomas N. Scortia's Strange Bedfellows (1972)
- Delany, Samuel. "Aye, and Gomorrah ... " (first published in Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison, 1967).