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[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 48 points 2 years ago

Both sex changes and assuming behavorial roles of another gender happen all the time among various animal species. There's accounts of trans people that are as old as writing itself, but the fluidity of sex and gender goes all the way back through evolutionary history. Sorting everything into two clearly labeled, seperated boxes that you can never leave is a fairly recent trend that is rooted entirely in ideology, but we all know that transphobes can't grasp biology that goes beyond what you learn in 3rd grade.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

For anyone curious how it happens:

How does spontaneous sex reversal occur? Typically, a female chicken has only one functional ovary, the left one. The right ovary and oviduct are present in the embryonic stages of all birds but usually do not develop in chickens. Most cases of spontaneous sex reversal result from a disease condition that damages the left ovary. This condition could be an ovarian cyst or tumor or diseased adrenal glands, which cause the left ovary to regress. Residual tissue in the right ovary develops in the absence of the functional left ovary. This regenerated right gonad is known as an ovotestis and may contain some tissue characteristics of the ovary, the testes, or both. Steroidogenically functional, an ovotestis secretes androgen as well as estrogen. As a result, the hen develops male secondary sex characteristics. So, although the bird is genotypically female, it is phenotypically male. (Genotype refers to the actual traits coded for in paired genes; phenotype refers to the observable expression of those traits.) There are reports of hens with ovotestes producing semen, making them capable of fathering offspring. However, most chickens that have experienced sex reversal never lay eggs or sire offspring.

TL;DR if the left ovary stops functioning for whatever reason, the right one may develop into an ovary/testicle hybrid that secretes androgen which then causes male secondary sex characteristics to show up. In seemingly very rare cases they can produce sperm and thus offspring.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

they put all their egg-laying capacity in one basket?

[–] Venus@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

But the other basket has their egg fertilizing capacity just in case

That shits crazy I love it

[–] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

alex-oopsie First they came for the frogs

[–] Cromalin@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

and i did not speak up because i was not french

[–] edge@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

Chicken Egg kelly

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Venus@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It mildly annoys me that it is the chick and not the egg which is trans colored in this emoji, making it narratively disconnected from the trans-egg emoji

[–] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Hexbear extended university btfo

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

"MooooOM, they're transing the chickens"

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Life finds a way

[–] MerryChristmas@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Nobody needs to hear my clown fish rant again but on the off chance you haven't encountered it: go read up on the sexual politics of clownfish. Super interesting stuff.