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[–]Complicated-Spirit 13 insightful - 6 fun13 insightful - 5 fun14 insightful - 6 fun -  (7 children)

I’ve never had my vet ask me what gender my dog is. One, I’d assume they’d be able to suss that one out on their own pretty quickly. Two, I think that “gender” is entirely conflated with “identity” - hence why it’s replacing “sex” in common parlance, since “sex” is based on facts and nobody likes those - so were my dog’s vet to basically ask me, “Does your dog identify as a boy dog or a girl dog?” I would just gather up my dog in my arms, back out the door slowly, and then break off into a run as soon as I got outside.

[–]lairacunda 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun -  (6 children)

I’ve never had my vet ask me what gender my dog is.

That's only because people haven't started transing their dogs yet. Give it a couple of years.

[–]Complicated-Spirit 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

I do know people who proudly declare their dogs as gay or lesbian. I know that homosexuality exists in the animal world, but the only times I’ve seen eager pet owners claim to own a gay pet is when their dog is humping another one, completely oblivious to the fact that that’s something dogs do to establish dominance. And yes, male dogs sniff other male dogs and female dogs sniff other female dogs as a way of getting to know them; that, also, is basic dog behavior and not really to be construed as a key sign of homosexuality in canines. If you point this basic fact out to them, they shush you with “Oh no, my dog is REALLY TRULY gay,” angry that you’ve tried to spoil their fun, because to them, being gay/“queer” is a hip trend that they’re desperate to be a part of, not an actual, lived-with sexual orientation, and if they can’t pull it off, God damn it, their pets will do it for them.

[–]lairacunda 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Listen, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with this non-sequitur. We were talking about people transing their animals and giving them a fictional gender-identity. Then you come out of RIGHT field with "some silly people claim their animals are same-sex attracted". So just clarify, TRANS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LGB. SSA is a real thing, it doesn't need props or medicalization or invented "identities". Please stop being such a homophobe. Homophobia like yours makes gullible and vulnerable people want to opt out of their biological sex.

[–]Complicated-Spirit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I...wasn’t. The point I was trying to make is that people will try to claim that their pets are whatever they claim they are in an attempt to appear cool and progressive, so it wouldn’t surprise me if people started claiming their pets are trans. And it fucking pisses me off that you’d accuse me of being homophobic because that’s such virtue-signaling bullshit right there.

[–]WrongToy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I get it. It happens with small livestock too like backyard chickens.

All hens will slow down with their laying within two years. Some can actually grow spurs and start to crow. They're still female but are exhibiting male chicken behavior, so owners have opined that they must be transgender roosters. But its not like they go around claiming pronouns...well not yet.

[–]MarkTwainiac 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What next, poultry farmers replacing the age-old term "sexing chicks" to "gendering" them? And the people who do that job will be called "chicken genderers" rather than "chicken sexers"?

Even Wikipedia, which has become full of gender ideology propaganda since being taken over by TRAs who've turned into Wokepedia, still uses "chick sexing" throughout its page on the topic. There's not one word about poultry gender; it's all sex, sex and more sex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_sexing

[–]Complicated-Spirit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly. It’s like when straight people decided to co-opt “queer” for themselves, and then justify it because they tell actual LGB people that “queer is self-defined and it really only means whatever it means to you.” Queerness isn’t a hip coffee shop that literally anyone - even utterly straight people - can visit whenever they want to be seen by the masses, and it isn’t a funny, cute label you can apply to animals to make your own life seem more interesting. It’s a real, lived, experienced thing, not just a trendy bit of fun. It’s a slap in the face to actual LGB people.