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Far from being unnatural, same-sex pairings occur in hundreds of species throughout the animal kingdom, including such headline-grabbing couples as Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins who adopted a fertilized egg and hatched a baby female penguin at the Central Park Zoo. Learn more about same-sex behavior among penguins and what researchers are discovering about both sex roles and sexual behavior among species throughout the world.

Dee

Who is Dee?

Birds of a feather

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Gender Identity Our core sense of who we are as a man, a woman, a mixture of both, or neither.

Gender Expression How we show up in the world through choices like clothing, hair style, mannerisms or tone of voice.

Attraction How we feel toward others sexually, romantically and/or emotionally.

Biological Sex Physical attributes such as reproductive organs and genitalia, chromosomes, genes and hormone levels.

Birds of a feather

Featured Content

References:

Dee

Gender Identity Our core sense of who we are as a man, a woman, a mixture of both, or neither.

Gender Expression How we show up in the world through choices like clothing, hair style, mannerisms or tone of voice.

Attraction How we feel toward others sexually, romantically and/or emotionally.

Biological Sex Physical attributes such as reproductive organs and genitalia, chromosomes, genes and hormone levels.

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