My gender as an animal is so strange not even one human label could explain it. I've broken these up but it is not possible in my experience to entirely separate any of them.
Brown Femininity (kafean, vitulic, genderhen)
I can't explain to people enough how my feathers are so I twined with myself, and I'm not even a typical dimorphic species. How my colour shows who I am in identity and in gender. How I remember the bars on my wings and smile. How when I call myself a doe or a hen it makes everything alright again.
Neutral Small Thing (undergrowtheon, nonbinary, genderpylc, ihlathian)
How seeing the undergrowth, seeing the bugs, smelling like dirt and grass and cinnamon and warm fur, makes me feel perfectly aligned in who and what I am. Spread my roots into the moss and let it grow between my cells, becoming entwined with the world around me. Hibernate.
Female Animal (pantherfem, wildfeminine)
How being a 200 kilo ball of muscle and flexibility is the peak idea of what it means to be female. Sharp claws. Rough tongue on my partner's cheek. Blood on my fangs from the hunt. Heavy and strong with claws retracted.
We are all ecosystems aren't we?