Debunking Activist Lies about Trans Animals

An examination of 18 supposedly ‘trans animals’ disproves activist claims that we all live on a non-binary gender ‘spectrum.’

00:00 Intro to Peter Tatchell, Fran Tirado and other activists
02:45 - Clownfish
03:20 - Ruff (a type of bird)
03:48 - Swallowtail butterfly
04:43 - Seahorse
05:14- Spotted hyena
05:42 - Skink (a type of lizard)
06:05 - Boyd's forest dragon (a type of lizard)
06:24 - Komodo dragon
07:05 - Jellyfish
07:38 - Starfish
08:07 - Oyster
08:26 - Black sea bass
08:46 - Banana slug
09:21 - Marsh harrier (a type of bird)
9:53 - Green honeycreeper (a type of bird)
10:22 - Mandarin duck
10:56 - Whiptail lizard
11:23 - Slipper limpet (a type of sea snail)

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[baconsarny-geddon]

Fun fact- Clownfish can breathe underwater, thus PROVING SCIENTIFICALLY that it's perfectly valid and natural for humans to live on the sea floor, and lay their eggs among the protective tentacles of the sea anemone.

I'm just here to EDUCATE y'all folx...

[pbh]

Difference alone, clownfish don't need expensive surgeries for self satisfaction

[Engrave.Danger]

Anybody else notice that clownfish don't have to go to a gender clinic for gender affirming care? 🧐

[leluefran]

Anyway, this animals are what they are, they function by their own. They don't need doctors and pharmaceutical "help", they are able to produce their own hormones to function!

[SereneBobcat]

This video is kind of crazy. When you need to put out a video detailing how human beings are not fish, lizards, hyenas, or sea horses, something has gone very wrong.

[HyperManSP]

Person 1: "Are you a clownfish?"
Person 2: "No."

'Nuff said. End of story.

[priapulida]

brought to you by the people claiming sex and gender have absolutely nothing to do with each other..

[voices_vary]

Animals that transform do it naturally. I never heard of a fish that engaged a surgical team to perform the process.

[SpicyMeataball]

They're comparing a fish changing sex out of biological necessity to people chopping off healthy body parts over a feeling.
These people are actually insane.

[jesseparrish]

Normalize eating your young. However common homosexual or "trans" animals are, this is a lot more common.

[SwankemasterSupreme]

Humans cannot biologically transition.
Fish can biologically transition.

[tonybernard]

There's another fish that, after doing the female thing of laying eggs and babysitting till they hatch, goes into hiding and transforms into a fully featured male with larger size and other characteristics, and goes about fertilizing females' eggs. Note that in all trans cases, they become reproductively viable versions of that gender; in no cases are the transitions cosmetic only. Also, for the cases where males act as females to gain access to females (cuttlefish do this also), they're doing so in order to gain heterosexual mating and reproduction, not for same sex action or social approval. This is an alarming stretch to try to normalize something that's definitely not normal.

[sofamiller]

If the closest human relative they can come up with is clownfish, I’d say they’re starting off on really bad footing.

[Nox_et_Solitudo]

Wow... those far left pseudo-intellectual phrases such as "settler-colonial heteronormative construct " are some next level cringe.

[IYLAMATRIX]

i don’t understand what the people making the list were trying to prove. yes, some species can change their sex; but humans, however, cannot do that. the argument makes no sense.

[Crackpot_Astronaut]

I'd bet my life that NONE of the animals they reference make a habit of going through multiple dangerous medical procedures while fighting against their biology to accomplish these things.

[simex]

I could just as easily make a list of animals that violently copulate. Should we apply this logic to that list? "Get used to it!"

[Kualabear]

So basically when clown fish change sex it’s for positive functional reasons.

[JonCrs]

Fillial cannibalism is also common in animal species. Oh and Australian redback spider males are known to mate with juvenile female spiders too. And who could for get the wonderful relationship that both dolphins and ducks have with consent. Wait what do you mean "its wrong to justify unnatural human actions by observing them among animal species?" I thought that was the game we were playing with trans fish and gay lions

[unitedstatesofamerica]

Funny how they choose the clownfish to represent their clown world views.