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Can animals be transgender?

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So I think we can accept that it is possible that transgender animals do occur, and not so rare that they would be hard to find. I propose that it may even be undeniable that transgender animals exist, and maybe even with predictable frequency. read more

11 With all of the recent sexuality debates going around the world, it should come as no surprise to everyone that even animals can be transgendered or even multi-gendered. Charles Darwin, the renowned biologist who wrote entire books on evolution, proposed that due to ferocious competition amongst males to find female partners, some species have evolved into having more than one kind, or morph, of gender. read more

Regarding sex-changing animals, the technical term for this phenomenon is sequential hermaphroditism. It generally goes one of three ways: Males can turn into females (protandry), females can turn into males (protogyny), and bidirectional or simultaneous sex change, where the animal is both male and female simultaneously, altering between the sexes at different points of its life. read more

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