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[alexseanchai]

I can make the math of sex chromosomes work for a two-sex species like humans. I can make the math work for a four-sex species: XXZ and XXW are one sex, YYZ and YYW are another, XYZ is a third, XYW is a fourth. This math also works for a six-sex species, obviously. Three-sex species, which is where I'm trying to make the math go? Not so much.

Halp.

(I am contemplating gender roles for a three-sex species, assuming the vast majority of people of that species, like the vast majority of humans, are cisgender. I keep running into the fact that humans, at least white USAian humans, tend to conceive of gender roles as binaries, not trinaries.)

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[alexseanchai]

Ooooh. Things to ponder! Thanks!

*pokes Googles* Their Majesties' Bucketeers, you mean?

[melannen]

Yes! Sorry, got that confused. ^_^ (It's Sherlock Holmes pastiche where Watson is surmale and Holmes is male and the Irene-ish figure is female. Also they are desert-dwelling crab-people with three limbs. It's hard to find sadly but I enjoy describing it to people who think their Holmes AU is weird. ^_^ It even explores concepts of queerness in that society a little though of course not as much as I'd like.)