If I’m understanding the request right, it’s to display on a taxon page the type of reproduction/sexes for a species vs. to decide here how individual observations should be annotated. Let me know if I’m misunderstanding.
The latter can be done on the Let’s Talk Annotations topic. Future discussions about specific sex annotations or how reproduction works will be moved either to that topic (or Nature Talk if more relevant).
If the request is to allow any user, or any curator, to edit how sex annotations apply to taxa, I don’t think the request is viable. Only iNat staff edit annotations, not users – that’s what observation fields are for. Given the extensive discussion about sex and reproduction above and in the Let’s Talk Annotations topic, I think we can all see why this would be a part of the site that is more locked down/standardized than left to the community to curate.
I do not believe you are arguing in good faith. Per recommendation from bouteloua, I will not respond to any further posts about sex annotations in this thread.
More like the second one, I know that any user or any curator should not be able to access that, but as a big rule of thumb in big chunks of life groups could be very interesting. Maybe the users could give some evidence to curators so that they can activate or deactivate that option. At least that was my intention with this feature request. I am guessing that something similar happens with the life stages on insects, so that feature in my mind could be applied to this. This also could be applied both ways at the same time, if a higher taxon is marked as variable the lower ones have the option to be changed specifically.
This could also be a very good educational tool, because you can see if the option exist to add a sex. Maybe if it is a dioecious a text like “This is a dioecious organism” could appear by defaultin the Sex Annotation row. I made also an image to (hopefully) illustrate this feature.
