18 animals you didn’t know were biologically “trans”
Whether you like it or not, gender diversity in the (tr)animal kingdom blurs the lines of “biological sex.” words by FRAN TIRADO photography courtesy of WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Transphobes love to cite “biology” in their exclusionary views.
Lesbian separatists, right wing lobbyists, the Pope, She Who Must Not Be Named — this shrinking class of gender imperialists uses the term “biological sex” as a pseudo-intellectual trump card to suggest that the gender binary is inalienable because of this perceived fact.
Yet, these relentless displays of willful obtuseness ignore many facts in order to prove their point. Such as, the fact of intersex bodies.
Such as, the fact of overwhelming support from medical institutions and experts advocating for the prosperity of trans people. (Take the Endocrine Society — the largest, oldest, and most active medical organization dedicated to researching hormones — calling out the terms “biological sex,” “biological male,” and “biological female” as “imprecise and should be avoided.”) There’s also the fact of trans beings in some of the earliest recorded histories of the earth, preceding the politicization of the term “transgender.” Or, the fact that the human species is really only one member of that supposed “biology.” Anyway, enough about humans, let’s learn more about these tranimals.
