Introducing Lovelace........
As a kid I knew gender curious children. I knew a girl who dressed in boys' clothes, played with boys' toys, rode a boys bike etc, and I knew a boy who liked girls' clothing, toys, games and parted his hair on the right side, a very daring thing to do 6o+ years ago. Years later I knew a young man who dressed in female clothing etc and who could ride a bike whilst wearing 4" heels..... amazing!
My parents and their entire generation were prejudiced against transgenders, as an infant I learned that such people are 'queer' but when comedians like Danny La Rue or 'Dame Edna' were on television my father enjoyed their acts greatly............ I never did understand that...!
And I've known gay animals and birds. This is all about Lovelace, and Molly, ...... and Pablo.
We keep ducks in our garden. A very long time ago I was a wildfowler, spent most of my teen years on salt marshes and creeks, and as so often happens to wildfowlers I became a watcher and conservationist in later years.
We have a transgender duck, a Carolina Drake which we called Lovelace. We arranged for him to have a Carolina duck, Molly, and although she would invite him to 'tread' her Lovelace never would. She would then make advances to Pablo, a Mandarin Drake and he would respond. Lovelace just doesn't care about that sort of thing. He lives with Molly, they sleep beside each other, but ..... no sex!
At first we decided that Lovelace is asexual.... but then Lovelace showed us that he is clearly not. Because golfers drive practice balls out to sea from the cliff tops here I often find these when I'm out on the foreshore, collecting oysters or raking for clams, so I bring them home and place them in the borders of our garden with round stones which I also bring home. In mid April Lovelace starts to collect and roll these golf balls in to a 'scrape' in a sheltered corner, and then he sits on them, turning them, tearing out his breast feathers to warm them, and is very aggressive to any ducks, mini-dachshunds or humans that come too close. Only Molly can sit nearby, but she's not allowed to actually sit on Lovelace's nest. Some time in Mid May he will lose interest and desert his golf balls.
What to do? Have I done a wicked thing by leaving golf balls lying around.... a clear temptation for Lovelace...?
Should we hang him high....... some humans actually believe that lgbt folks should be hanged.... true.
My wife works for a vet but there isn't a treatment for gay ducks.... humane termination?
The oven? But would eating a gay duck transfer such feelings, possibly?
Or could we simply enjoy this lovely creature, surprisingly tame when he hasn't got golf balls to protect!
Oh........ and why on earth do some folks object to LGBT people so much? Mental illness on their part, or pure bigotry? What causes that?
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As a kid I knew gender curious children. I knew a girl who dressed in boys' clothes, played with boys' toys, rode a boys bike etc, and I knew a boy who liked girls' clothing, toys, games and parted his hair on the right side, a very daring thing to do 6o+ years ago. Years later I knew a young man who dressed in female clothing etc and who could ride a bike whilst wearing 4" heels..... amazing!
My parents and their entire generation were prejudiced against transgenders, as an infant I learned that such people are 'queer' but when comedians like Danny La Rue or 'Dame Edna' were on television my father enjoyed their acts greatly............ I never did understand that...!
And I've known gay animals and birds. This is all about Lovelace, and Molly, ...... and Pablo.
We keep ducks in our garden. A very long time ago I was a wildfowler, spent most of my teen years on salt marshes and creeks, and as so often happens to wildfowlers I became a watcher and conservationist in later years.
We have a transgender duck, a Carolina Drake which we called Lovelace. We arranged for him to have a Carolina duck, Molly, and although she would invite him to 'tread' her Lovelace never would. She would then make advances to Pablo, a Mandarin Drake and he would respond. Lovelace just doesn't care about that sort of thing. He lives with Molly, they sleep beside each other, but ..... no sex!
At first we decided that Lovelace is asexual.... but then Lovelace showed us that he is clearly not. Because golfers drive practice balls out to sea from the cliff tops here I often find these when I'm out on the foreshore, collecting oysters or raking for clams, so I bring them home and place them in the borders of our garden with round stones which I also bring home. In mid April Lovelace starts to collect and roll these golf balls in to a 'scrape' in a sheltered corner, and then he sits on them, turning them, tearing out his breast feathers to warm them, and is very aggressive to any ducks, mini-dachshunds or humans that come too close. Only Molly can sit nearby, but she's not allowed to actually sit on Lovelace's nest. Some time in Mid May he will lose interest and desert his golf balls.
What to do? Have I done a wicked thing by leaving golf balls lying around.... a clear temptation for Lovelace...?
Should we hang him high....... some humans actually believe that lgbt folks should be hanged.... true.
My wife works for a vet but there isn't a treatment for gay ducks.... humane termination?
The oven? But would eating a gay duck transfer such feelings, possibly?
Or could we simply enjoy this lovely creature, surprisingly tame when he hasn't got golf balls to protect!
Oh........ and why on earth do some folks object to LGBT people so much? Mental illness on their part, or pure bigotry? What causes that?
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P1020542.jpg
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