I think the nail on the head in the university debate was about animals . It made me think about something silly . there is a gender reassignment surgery for dogs . Now think about that for a second . Dogs don ' t speak in a language that uses symbols like ours . Their language is all instinct driven . There is no way for a male dog to tell it ' s owner it is actually a female . And yet I chopped the nuts off of my dog and that now makes it not a male on biological grounds . It makes it a eunic or a first phase male to female transformation . or is it . In biology we define a female as being a producer of offspring and a male as one that fertilizes eggs . This distinction covers a wide range of species . Does a woman stop being a woman when we cut out her ovaries ? Most women who have had historectomies would hope not . So can we really have a transgender dog just based on a surgery ? Probably not . But if gender is simply a social construction than yes we can . My dog isn ' t a male because it was born with a penis . it is male because it personally identified as such . A lot of these debates get limited to humans because humans can talk . Gender isn ' t simple in the animal kingdom either . There are tranny goats for example . But we can quantify what that means on a biological level . Gender self expression isn ' t something that is often proven and is just accepted as fact .