Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9154802-20170511025535/@comment-4352645-20170515212153

I also strongle believe that it's not your nor anyone else's place to tell someone how they should write their own work(that sounds really rude, but it's not supposed to. I'm just laying out an opinion). If someone says "Yeah, my character is a 3rd gender. Ya see, their species has a 3-gender system where 1 gender provides eggs, the other ferlizes them, and the 3rd incubates them," then so be it. A system like that is ineffecient and unlikely/impossible to occur in nature, but it's hardly world-breaking. Maybe they're planet was ravaged by a mysterious form of radiation that mutated a good chunk of the populace into something completely sexually different from the rest of the population(they could still reproduce with the other members of their race, just differently. Say, by way of an ovipositor or through physical contact that isn't penetrative, like worms.) Etc, etc. None of these examples are perfect, but they have enough depth/potential to be acceptable.