So would that rule out the possibility of being Femmekin?

Anyway, thanks for the great site.

Respectfully,
AstralSpire

Sorry!

FtM transgenderism (sometimes known as TransMen) /does/ exist, though it is not as common as MtF transgenderism.

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TSsuccesses/FtM/Rafe.jpg

^ This guy, looks very much like a guy. This guy was born a girl.

Because if both sexes can effectively fertilize ánd carry the child, they are considered both male and female, or, in some scenarios, where the act of mating would be unnescessary, neither male nor female.

If only one sex can carry child, and only one sex can fertilize, then you’re already dividing female and male genders. These are the laws of biology.

If you state that having breasts makes you female: Ehm.. No. Additional fat tissue on the chest muscles do not make you female. If you state that the ability to suckle makes you female: Again; tricky one. Male humans, for example, are physically able to breastfeed children. Since they have a shortage of certain female hormones, they will not produce a lot of milk, and will only do so after lengthy stimulation of the nipples, and thus milk glands.

Now; for a penis: Birds of all genders have a cloaca. Same goes for various species of reptiles. Animals who have a cloaca do not have a penis, yet this does not refrain a male member of said species to fertilize a female member of same species.

What makes a female a female, on biological standards, is only one thing, really: The inborn carrying capacity of egg-cells. Various groups of species have various ways of fertilization; in the womb, or outside the body. Most groups spawn eggs, which are sometimes fertilized after spawning, and sometimes fertilized before, and mammals spawn their non-coated eggs in their womb, where it is fertilized, and the child will not emerge from it until it would normally hatch. (Platypus excepted.)

Because of these biological laws of fertilization, there can be no procreation of a multi-cellular life-form without fertilization, unless, of course, you count cloning as a valid natural process. It does happen, in only a very small amount of species on this earth, but weakens the species’ DNA structure to such an amount as that it will still only happen when there is no other option.

It is, however, possible for a species to have two different genders, who are so much alike that there are no other real differences, except for breeding roles. Female hyenas, for example, sport a penis, while male hyenas suckle pups. While female hyenas can penetrate, they cannot fertilize, however.

Femininity is not simply the converse of masculinity. It is the normative, original state of life. Many peoples throughout the universe are purely feminine. Indeed, schizomorphic (male/female) peoples are an exception and some think a late development that took place only in a few worlds.

Ehm.. No. Gender, or sex, is a result of chromosomes. Possible pares are: XY, YY, XX. Male, female and.. Something theat could be both, or either.
The development of the sex, in the womb, has, indeed, got something to do with hormones. Whoohoo. That isn’t to say that ‘female’ is thé natural state.
It does happen that XY children are born ‘female,’ in which case they are, in nearly every respect, indead normally female. It does happen that YY children are born ‘male,’ in which case, they are, in nearly every respect, male. In both cases, the individuals are sterile, and there is a good chance of malformation of sexual organs.
If the natural state of being is ‘female,’ then why does every body on this planet have some version of both testosteron and androgen? These are male hormones, and cause the physical changes of male teens. But also some of female teens. Voice drops, facial hair, muscle density, shoulder with, muscle size, all that sort of thing. Female teens also experience this, only to a far lower extent, depending on the person. The testicals produce extra testosteron and androgen, to increase these changes in male children.
Both genders are also influenced by oestrogens and progestoron. Both sexes change, in puberty, because of these hormones, be it females to a greater extent than males.

So since the pairing of chromosomes is the initial cause for birth gender, and development in the womb the secondary, ‘female’ is merely á natural state of being, and male another. Hermafrodite is another natural state of being, and so is genderless, and bi-gendered. Even transgendered is a natural state, as the initial chromosomes do not match with later development, and somehow went astray.

If only such a small thing as gender wasn’t this complicated for social standards…