Important to realize that not only are we anthropocentric in our thinking, we are also mammal-centric and vertebrate-centric and animal-centric. it sounds strange but it's true. We give a disproportionate amount of attention and importance to living things that are more like us
Notions of individuality, social behavior, sex and gender, interdependence, symbiosis, "food chains," intelligence, communication, and cooperation are just a few of the things that get REALLY interesting when you examine them through the lens of basically anything that isn't a vertebrate animal
Approximately 3 hours into researching how reproduction works in various phyla of invertebrate animals, you get abruptly punched in the face by how profoundly stupid the existence of transphobia is and just sit there trying to get your brain to function again after the apocalyptic event of trying to imagine a world where it made sense.
Transphobes are fond of saying "I understand biology!" Buddy, no one understands biology. You haven't even gotten to noticing biology.
