Post #135642
2026-01-15 18:08 UTC
Replies (29)
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@powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-15 19:29
Male seahorse get pregnant, but that doesn't make them trans, they're unambiguously male. This is a great example of why sex is defined by gamete size. If it weren't, we couldn't talk about males and females in any useful way across the animal kingdom. Clownfish would be a better example as they're sequential hermaphrodites, but that doesn't have any bearing on the human sex binary.
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@rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-15 18:30
Frogs and ducks enter the chat
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@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-01-15 18:35
>also sorry if the seahorse is hard to see I am emotionally damaged and triggered from seeing this seahorse. It was a very hard thing for me to see.
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@merc@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-16 07:49
Isn't this confusing sex and gender?
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@yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-16 15:03
My biggest issue with this whole thing is just writing "POV" at the start. Is this like the new generations communication habit? Some people can't stop putting lol at the end of a message, some people cant stop saying "so here's the thing" at the start of sentences. Are people just automatically writing POV at the start of memes now?
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@altphoto@lemmy.today 2026-01-16 02:15
Okay looks like this one is the female because it has the babies! Oh wait I has a penis so this is the male. The other one is the female because it has the vagina. Oh but it can't have babies. Then this one is the male! And that one is the female because it has the babies. Oh but it has a penis.... Repeat. Reproductive Cycle of a Seahorse.... No, seahorses don't have penises in the typical sense; female seahorses possess an ovipositor, a tube-like structure, which they use to deposit their eggs into the male's specialized brood pouch, where the male then fertilizes them and carries the young until birth, essentially becoming the pregnant parent. Okay so this one is the male because it has a long stick! And that one is the female because it has a pouch...wait but the stick is full of eggs and the pouch is full of cum. Hmmm hold on the one with the stick gives the stick to the one that has a hole? Preposterous! Let's all pray.
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@WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 2026-01-15 18:34
In case you wanted the explanation from a [1993 Nirvana T-shirt:](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1558828916/nirvana-1993-t-shirt-vintage-kurt-cobain) “Ever the trendsetter, the sea horse is the sole animal known to man which the male of the species endures the privilege of childbirth. Following a length courtship, a male and female have intercourse during which the female enters the male and lays as many as 200 eggs which are fertilized within the body of the male. After a 5-week gestation period, the male gives birth.”
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@Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 2026-01-15 18:37
But returning from the dead is A-OK!
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@Shrubbery@piefed.social 2026-01-15 18:50
Catholics: Eating your young isn't normal or part of nature. Nature: Looks like meat is back on the menu, boys!
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@melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2026-01-16 13:03
I think being true to yourself is being closer to God than most Christians are.
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@Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-16 03:56
Better example is ~~parrotfish~~ clownfish.
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@cattywampas@lemmy.world 2026-01-15 19:39
I'm no longer religious, but Catholics are on the chiller side of the Christian spectrum.
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@cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2026-01-16 07:58
Conservatives saying shit like "nature intended monogamous relationships between men and women, and it is against nature to change your gender" while fucking nature is queer AS fuck. Clown fish will always end up turning into females in the course of their lives (if they dont get eaten before), male seahorses get pregnant and shimpanzes solve all of their problems with sex.
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@dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2026-01-15 19:55
Don’t Catholics subscribe to the doctrine of TRANSubstantiation?
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@skibidi@lemmy.world 2026-01-17 05:30
Seahorses aren't a great example here imo. Their biology is just different from ours, the sex that fertilizes is the sex that carries the eggs to term - that doesn't make them trans that is just how male and female work for seahorses, different than humans. A seahorse could make this meme calling cis women trans men because they carry the fetus..
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@captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2026-01-15 19:55
Oh hey, I was going to be pedantic but apparently seahorses are also sequential hermaphrodites
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@g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 2026-01-16 22:29
I just like seahorses
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@realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 2026-01-15 19:26
I thought trans not being a natural thing was an agreed statement at this point in time?
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@Siethron@lemmy.world 2026-01-15 19:28
Yes
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@surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2026-01-16 12:00
So those who cannot reproduce and aren't in either category are still human. And therefore in a third category. Red, blue, none. Three categories. Also, intersex can sometimes reproduce.
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@surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2026-01-16 16:24
Ok there Isaac Newton. Call it violet.
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@captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2026-01-15 19:58
It's perfectly cis for a male seahorse to give birth. That said, a quick search told me they also change sexes over the course of their life so…
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@captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2026-01-15 20:36
Ah, yeah we can't really know. Sequential hermaphrodism in chordates however is sometimes used to argue that biological sex isn't as stable of a construct as some prefer to act like it is, in a similar way to how intersex people are used to express how it isn't as binary of a concept as culture would have you believe.
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@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-01-16 18:09
It's not actually called "sex change surgery" it is called gender affirmation surgery and/or gender reassignment surgery. So it's not so much a misnomer as it is uninformed people using the wrong terminology entirely.
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@TeamTeddy@lemmy.world 2026-01-17 00:30
Why do you care so much about what other people do with their genitals?
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@stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2026-01-16 18:03
POV I don't change anything about my behavior or habits
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@macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 2026-01-17 03:29
Or the idiots will have to learn.
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@stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2026-01-21 13:39
thank you
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@tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2026-01-17 05:16
I dunno, I'm sure if we looked hard we could find at least one baboon bigot out there.