Ask a transsexual anything

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Has transexuality, or alike, been observed among animals?

Tell me... what are the personality differences between male dogs and female dogs?

Other than a tendency for the cisgendered females to be more submissive, and the cisgendered males to be more dominant... it's rather hard to tell past individual personalities. It's rather likely that there are transsexual dogs, but the real problem is this: how do you distinguish them from homosexual dogs? Conclusion: You'd have to find a MtF 'male dog' being consensually dominated by a female dog, or an FtM 'female dog' consensually dominating a male dog, (last few cases obvious).

See... gender is in great part: societal, cultural. As humans, we posses language and civilization and culture and tradition and the concept of gender and gender roles... to observe something as observationally subtle and nuanced as the gender of a creature... it isn't a very easy thing to do.

One quick scan later, fast answer: no. Hey, a dude on yahoo said it best XD

Cases of animals that display unusual sex characteristics (like the "hen" who ended up looking more like a rooster) are intersex.

Animals like worms that don't have sexual differentiation, or like many species of fish where sexual differentiation regularly changes over time (all members of the species having the potential to act on either end of the reproductive process, and the largest "female" physically changes to become "male" when one is needed) are a different matter entirely. There, we're talking about species that have entirely different sexual make-ups than we do.

Even among higher mammals that are mostly similar to us sexually, it would be impossible to really tell if a given member of the species is "transgender," since that requires a level of conscious social identification that animals don't have.

But if we're going to ascribe human social categories to animals, yes, there are many animals that display very atypical behavior for their physical sex. This includes but is not limited to sexual behavior.

I'd staple 'and self-identification' to that, but then we'll end up with a beastiality thread as I teach the forum an amazing amount about the world they live in

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