It’s worth noting that frogs are big on the internet in general. In early quarantine, when I got deep into the frog-centric part of TikTok known, predictably, as #FrogTok, however, I realized that the narrative of frog-loving queer people was not just a vague feeling, but an actual sort of LGBTQ+ internet fandom for the amphibian. As a queer person who vaguely loves frogs, I wasn’t particularly surprised to learn that there were other queer people out there who also love frogs. At first, I didn’t think much of this because it just made sense to me - the modern internet is personalized to each user. Examples include tweets about bisexuals loving frogs, frog pride merch sold on Etsy, lesbian frog memes, and a build-a-LGBTQ-frog Tumblr thread. Over the past year or so, I’ve noticed a steady and growing stream of queer-related frog content on the corners of the internet I inhabit. ![]() Frogs are a recurring item on these lists. Plenty of TikTok videos list “things that aren’t gay/queer/LGBTQ+ but have gay/queer/LGBTQ+ energy.” They’re typically presented without explanation, just the statement that inanimate objects, straight celebrities, stores, animals, movie villains, political ideologies, etc., have queer vibes. It now includes the green and brown M&Ms, Miss Piggy, iced coffee, the plant section at Lowe’s, and frogs. In addition to the inclusion of a more diverse set of people, many of whom are themselves members of the LGBTQ+ community, the cannon of queer iconography on the internet has an even wider scope. While the phrase “gay icon” may connote a diva worshipped by cis gay men, a wide range of celebrities have become objects of affection by LGBTQ+ people.Īs the internet opens up space for queer people to fawn over, stan, and shape their own narratives about their icons, the parameters of what constitutes one are expanding. To this day, the concept of a “gay icon” is still largely represented by (often heterosexual) celebrity women who embody elements of sexuality and selfhood that resonate with at least some LGBTQ+ people. The non-binary makeup of biological sex markers does not mean that sex can’t sometimes be a useful classifier in research sex is just more complicated than simply female or male.Judy Garland. Many may be familiar with professional athlete Caster Semenya (who has a different intersex condition), whose case was cruelly, and unscientifically, mishandled by the International Association of Athletics Federations. CAIS is one of several intersex conditions that enable people labeled female to produce levels of testosterone closer to the typical male range. ![]() ![]() But because their cells do not respond to androgen, people with CAIS also have breasts and female genitalia they are generally assigned female at birth, are raised as girls and tend to identify as such. ![]() (All people - along with frogs, fish, birds, reptiles and mammals - produce testosterone those who are categorized as male tend to produce more, on average.) Thus, on the basis of chromosomes, gonads and hormones, people with CAIS would be labeled male. These individuals have XY chromosomes, testes and levels of testosterone in the typical male range. To use a human example, drawing from a bioethics discussion about sex assignments in professional sports, some people are born with a condition called complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS).
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