Spongebob diapers meme

Can confirm, my female dog tries to hump me

Don't forget penguins!

Was just about to say this. If a chick or an egg is left behind, gay penguin couples will take in the chick or egg as their own.

Oh yeah forgot about them but I'd say fruit flies are a better example since they're one of the smallest animals on the planet but are gay

DON'T FORGET WHIPTAIL LIZARDS!

they are all lesbian!

Oh I didn't know that that's cool

Yeah!

all of them are females and there are no male whiptail lizards apparently...

My dogs be like: R U TALKING ABOUT ME?????!!!!!

Penguins

My old was lesbian

niceeee

If it makes you feel better, ribbon eels are also transgender, and pink sea slugs (yes that's a real animal species) are nonbinary.

lol yess

Rats are gay and lesbian

Clownfish do not have Gender Dysphoria. They biologically change their sex through a process that Humans cannot naturally go through without surgery.

If it makes you feel better, ribbon eels and clownfish are also trans, and pink sea slugs (yes that's their real name) are non-binary.

My friend has gay hamsters...

Clownfish are not transgender. First of all, gender is a social construct that we can't prove animals even posess the mental capacity for. Secondly, clownfish actually, physically change sex. Thirdly, sex works very differently in fish in general and clownfish in particular - their sex is not determined by chromosomes but instead entirely depends on hormones which can change depending on various circumstances (in case of clownfish it has to do with the group of clownfish, for other species it can depend on water temperature, age, salinity,...) and is not as fixed as it is in mammals (and even in mammals it's not as fixed as most of us were taught in school). What I'm trying to say is clownfish aren't trans, they're hermaphrodites - in my opinion, you can't really say they change to the "opposite sex" if their sex was pretty loosely defined to begin with.

You could argue that the same is true for an animal's sexuality because you simply can't prove they even think in our terms. Are two "male" penguins tending for an abandoned egg "gay"? Or is one of them "trans" and feels female? Or is all this simply irrelevant and they just like each other and both want a family?

I absolutely appreciate trying to normalize being LGBTQ+ by pointing out examples in the animal kingdom that don't follow our society's rules on gender and sexuality but this very comparison to me just brings to light that we should be having an entirely different discussion. Afterall, if gender, sexuality, and even sex are such fluid concepts, does it really make sense to distinguish at all?

I have no idea what you just said but I AGREE