Canadian comedian Mae Martin hosts Fluid: Life Beyond the Binary, which airs on The Nature of Things this Thursday.
The natural world is full of gender diversity, according to a new documentary airing on CBC's The Nature of Things. The episode takes viewers to the Royal Botanical Gardens and other sites. 'I hope more trans people feel seen and more cis people feel compassion for them,' says the episode editor, who's from Hamilton.
But seeing the diversity among her own peers at events that celebrate gay pride made it clear to her that "there's nothing the matter with the people. There's something the matter with the science." Ruffs: a type of sandpiper found on the fjords of Norway. The male birds have many different appearances, including some that look the same as the females.
Peter is featured in the episode discussing the red ginger, a tropical plant that is male in the mornings, producing pollen, and switches to female in the afternoons, moving to a state where its egg can be fertilized.Moosewood, or moose maple, start out as male when they're young but can produce male and female flowers as they get older and then female flowers as they mature and get closer to the forest canopy.
While not indigenous to Ontario, ginkgo is widely cultivated here, including at the RBG. Peter says that while it has separate male and female trees, a branch or a whole tree can change to female if there aren't other females around for pollination."A lot of this is really new to science, there's not a lot out there about these processes," he said, while proposing they may have evolved as a way to pass genetics on to the next generation.
"When you look at the unbiased scientific findings, as we do in this documentary, you see that fluidity is not unusual at all," he told CBC Hamilton in an interview.
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