Shout out to the Gloucester GC dinosaur

You've some views that are a bit more misogynist than most "TERF"s as you seem to believe in the importance of sex stereotypes. Most of us would like them abolished, with people free to like and dress how they please.

I will believe in the significance of "animals changing gender" the day you try bull's milk on your cereal.

She/ep

HTH

Claims of qualification on the internet from unproven sources require some scepticism.

I’m with alkanet, do we really have to point out that Jurassic Park wasn’t real?

More importantly, I saw stickers on the back of the doors in the Ladies khazi on Paddington Station. Absolutely warmed my cockles to see them in real life.

Oh, my thinking is all wrong because I didn't realise Jurassic Park was a documentary!

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There are lots of animals that change sex, and plenty of mammals that change gender too. Obviously it's fiction, but famously even the dinosaurs change gender in Jurassic Park

Well that's it then - that totally destroys the entire gender critical argument and perfectly explains why males should be allowed in female only spaces.....

I have colleagues who run animal trials. I wonder why they never talk about all those dairy cows that randomly change sex throughout the trials. Imagine the error bars on those graphs.

I have noticed on twitter that it seems that there are many people who claim to be ‘biologists’ who do rather like to ignore the fact that people are not clownfish, or asparagus, or crocodiles. I am sure that our visiting biologist will be along any moment with peer reviewed and robust research that has been successfully repeated and adopted on the gender roles in mammals that also don’t involve stereotypes.

I’m surrounded by fields that are full of ewes and lambs in the spring and early summer. As the lambs grow, it’s fascinating to see the aggressive play developing in the males. They tear around in groups, head butting and playing king of the castle on fallen trees, hummocks and so on. (I don’t see females doing this, at least not once the sex is clearly visible, but happy to be contradicted by sheep owners if I’m wrong.)
Anyway, the idea that because does/is X, Y, Z, means that humans do/are similar, is bollocks. Like the lambs have.

oh TheFnoz , have you been cruelly getting the ewes to gestate lambs when you should have been asking the rams if they wanted a turn?

shame on you

It must be quite difficult to tell with sheep
All I can say is bollocks....

I guess the main thing is to avoid talking to rams using the second person pronoun, to avoid them thinking you're calling them 'ewe'.

It must be quite difficult to tell with sheep TheFnoz... but perhaps this does explain their tendency towards finding inventive ways to die? All the misgendering.

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Mammals change gender? We bought 3 new rams last week. Perhaps the poster who stated this 'fact' can tell me how they do it and what I should be looking out for. The last time a poster claimed that sheep had a gender identity,I asked how I'd know this, but didn't get a reply.Its been a real worry ever since,as we've got over 1000 of them and I've evidently been misgendering on an industrial scale.

Mammals though?

Some animals do have a system in which subordinate males pretend to be females (adopting their colouring and demeanor) to avoid being attacked by the dominant males, and/or nip in there and fertilize the females. Cephalopods do, and some fish, IIRC.

I suppose you could call that gendered behaviour, but I’m not sure I’d hold it up as a model for human society.

One of my boy dogs wears a hot pink harness when we go walking. He's also quite emotional and clingy. I reckon he's changed gender. best get him booked in for the nadgers to come off ASAP!

Not seen this but happened to spend an hour or so in Gloucester Museum the other day and it has a good dinosaur section. In fact it’s a great little museum, well worth a visit.

What does "mammals changing gender" entail exactly?

I think it means drawing them with more (or less, depending on the intended direction of change) prominent eyelashes.

What does "mammals changing gender" entail exactly?

New for Disney Plus in 2021:

The Lion King: A New Pride. Simba, now a middled-aged lion, reveals to Nala that he’s never been happy wearing a mane, and always wants to be with the other lionesses, doing the hunting and so on. Nala and the other lionesses object, saying the hunting pack is female only, they’re entitled to their own female space. Simba, under advisement of cross-dressing Timon, leaves Nala and daughter Kiara to find a new pride, the Rainbow Pride, made up of all different animals who identify as lions, where Simba can finally be the maneless lioness she always wanted to be. Nala starts posting on the trans(lion) widows thread.

There are lots of animals that change sex, and plenty of mammals that change gender too.

What does "mammals changing gender" entail exactly?

Gender is a social construct and people should have the rights to live according to what fits best for them, be it as the gender assigned at birth, a different gender, or no gender at all

I think people who misrepresent the GC position in this way simply can't accept just how disadvantaged women are by biology.

I assume that the men don't give a shit.

I assume that the women are too shit scared to admit it to themselves. Much better to pretend that they're A-OK with being alone in a confined space with a strange man. then they can fool themselves that their lives are safe, innit?

anyhoo

I'm very much looking forward to seeing some ribbons in the wild