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[ormery]

My family has a pet tortoise. She's somewhere in the region of sixty years old, and when we acquired her when I was about three or four her name was Dougal. A perusal of reference books on tortoise keeping led us to the assumption that this tortoise was in fact female, so her name was changed to Tabitha (I was big on alliteration when I was small)

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[r_amythest]

I dunno if I would absolutely deny animals gender identity on the sheer basis of level of intelligence. There's no good way to really know their experience, or if gender identity is something that follows from thought rather than consciousness or whatnot