I'm not sure if this is the best place for this article, but the administrator can switch it or put it where he wants if he's so inclined. California sheephead can transition from a reproductive functional female to a functional male during the course of a lifespan in response to social factors. Protogynous sex change typically follows the size-advantage model, where gonadal transformation occurs once the reproductive potential of an individual would be greater as a male than as a female. The transitional phase takes between 2-3 weeks to several months, and it is hypothesized that steroid hormone concentrations are related to sex change due to the total degradation of the ovaries and the appearance of testes. The exact timing of the sexual morphogenesis is suppressed by aggressive interactions with dominant males and triggered by the removal of alpha males. There is a period of reproductive inactivity during gonadal remodeling, and the sex change in this species is unidirectional. It is possible that in later stages of the transition, fish are functionally male but maintain an intersexual gonadal appearance. All sheephead are born female. Most of them change to males following environmental clues we don’t fully understand. http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/anim ... p/cHd0/Q==

Kind of a cool looking fish and supposed to be good eating. Also kind of cool: Parrotfish start out as male or female but have sex organs of both sexes; they are protogynous hermaphrodites, meaning they can change from female to male. Some females will become supermales: larger males with brilliant, lively coloring.

The clown fish also switches male to female to male to female as it needs to. I wrote a screed about the "pervert clown fish" in a thread that was about... sea anemones I think, they also are a creature that can be both male then become female and back. What I thought was so neat about the clown fish, is that it usually hangs out around a sea anemone, and the clown fish is immune to the stinging tentacles of the sea anemone. So the very loud colored and perverted clown fish swishes and sways through the deadly tentacles of the perverted sea anemone very much like a TS prostitute prancing around her street corner, attracting the attention of other (good God fearing straight Christian) fish, enticing them, saying "Hey Baby! Take walk on the wild side! These tentacles won't hurt you baby! See? I touch them all the time, come on!" And then, the poor fish is lured in by this piscivorous transsexual prostitute clown fish... and while the sea anemone gets the fish, the clown fish takes a bite or two out of the paralyzed fish as the sea anemone pulls it in.

I wonder, maybe the sheephead fish has some other role to play in the oceanic perversion... maybe eating the sheephead fish causes transgender tendencies... That would explain a lot, most of my TS girlfriends like seafood, caviar and stuff like that...

I am kidding around OK? I think it is obvious that I am kidding, but somehow, I just know that someone out there is taking it all seriously.