queer-biological-science

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There are some species of animals (e.g barnicals or slugs) that can produce both male and female gametes

So next time someone tells you that the gender binary is natural, you can point out how there are so many more organisms are both "male and female" or have a gender different to humans or no gender at all. It's not always a binary system nature is full of diversity.

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Asexual botanists be like

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Queer bio fact:

There are some species of animals that can asexually reproduce via parthenogenesis. (development of an egg to a new individual without being fertilised by the male gamete) 

As an example the desert whiptale lizards can reproduce parthenogenetically and the population is entirely female due to this. These lizards still go though the act of sex and are entirely a group of sapphic lizards.

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Queer bio fact:

Male bed bugs have what I like to call a terrifying knife penis. They insert it somewhere into the body of the female, and the sperm migrates to her ovaries to fertilise the eggs. Bed bugs are not very good at telling between males and females and guess by size, so a male bedbug will try and mate with another bed bug who is smaller than him, and it sometimes could be male (poor twink bed bug)

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I think I have figured out why transphobic men think other men will pose as trans women to harm others.

In scorpionflies mating, the male will give the prey they have caught to the female, and she will decide if she wants to mate with him or not. 

Some lazy male flies mimic females for another male to come with their offering, only to realise too late that it is not a female, and the mimicking male steels the prey of the other to go off and give it to a female himself.

This is why men are so scared, they think trans women will steal their prey.