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#i say my cats are gay because they will assume the mating position together sometimes
the-thinkingcat · 2 years
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hey so my sister got a kitten and was told that the kitten was a girl cat and thats what we all thought until she was big enough to be fixed which was when we found out she lacked certain "parts" that girl cats normally have. my sister and oyr family have decided to say that shes trans though im wondering if that is a bit anthropomorphizing of us bc its not like she chose to be trans but also she doesn not experience gender the way we do enough to really care about that on account of being a cat that doesnt care about pronouns.
It is easy to mistake the sex of kittens when they are. And you are right that they are anthropomorphizing the cat by saying she is trans. However, and I can't speak for trans women on this, I think saying that a cat is trans is a type of harmless anthropomorphizing. For comparison it is harmful anthropomorphization to say "'my dog urinated on my bed because he is mad I didn’t walk him’ – as far as we know dog’s do not feel spiteful or resentful". The dog is anthropomorphized and mistreated for it. Saying a cat is trans should have little to no impact on how it is treated. Personally I say that my cats are gay often, homosexuality is common among animals anyway, and it has no impact on how they are treated.
Here is the article I quoted from that also talks about anthropomorphizing pets
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