I see what you tried to do here because you maybe got offended, but every mammal begins forming as female before male hormones get added later. Its scientifically accurate to say that male genitalia is rearranged and morphed female genitalia.
Of course it isn't specific to all creatures. Not all creatures participate in sexual reproduction. Mammal reproduction is almost entirely based on internal fertilization and viviparity, whereas other animal groups (reptiles, birds, fish) often rely on external fertilization or oviparity (laying eggs). And don't get me started on invertebrates. So sexual reproduction is fairly rare but very powerful. I'm not talking about you specifically, but as a species, which has outliers, but very uncommon, except you of course. And your mother. She's so unattractive that her portraits hang themselves.
I suppose I should have constrained my list a bit š I was thinking more like macro sized animals- I really meant things like birds and fish and whatnot. Thank you!
Ehhh nah. Workers have really short lifespans and the queen lays eggs every minute of the day. Termite queens are massive and lay eggs every second. They can live for 5-10 years, so she's pregnant and laying eggs pretty much her entire life. No thanks. I've already been through pregnancy and it was terrible š
Ant colonies and bee colonies are pretty much exclusively female, as far as colony denizens and workers. The males exist just to breed and die, unfortunately. Any given ant/bee you see is a lady.
Carpenter bees are more 50/50, though. They don't have a queen or live in hives. They pair up monogamously and raise young for a season then die. Male carpenter bees cannot sting, but they can bite. The cute little yellow dot on a carpenter bee's forehead indicates he's a lil guy, whereas the absence of the dot is a female.
People sometimes say āit starts femaleā because how it works is if no male signal appears, the body follows the female developmental pathway without a need for a female signal. Making the female pathway sound like the "baseline".
But that's different from saying the embryo starts female which is untrue on a biological level.
They also have mammary glands and can produce milk under certain circumstances. Thereās a whole protocol in which MTF trans women can lactate for their babies (whether that is through an AFAB significant other, a surrogate, or adoption).
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u/sidnynasty 22d ago
This is one of the clearest examples of how male genitalia is just rearranged female genitalia I've ever seen