Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...?

the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s perfectly cis for a male seahorse to give birth. That said, a quick search told me they also change sexes over the course of their life so…

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  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But I was under the impression that part of transitioning was the conscious decision to make a change in line with self perception. I can’t help but think non human animals wouldn’t experience that.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ah, yeah we can’t really know. Sequential hermaphrodism in chordates however is sometimes used to argue that biological sex isn’t as stable of a construct as some prefer to act like it is, in a similar way to how intersex people are used to express how it isn’t as binary of a concept as culture would have you believe.

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