Weekly Posting of the Conservative Cow Doctor

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There are two types of customers at horse sales, those who have bought a mare thinking they were buying a gelding and those who are going to. This error happens. I was just a pup the first time I saw it and the cowboy who made the buy was just devastated by his mistake. Fortunately, the bay filly was a good addition to our cavy, and she served well until a freakish, mountain lightning strike ended her tenure on the Double Rafter.

The second mare to slip into my string as a gelding was a weanling which zipped through the ring as a stud colt. My daughter, Meagan, was hoping to add a few more horses to her trailer load and she bought the colt. The filly hung around the barn for a week before anyone noticed the error. Running a critter back through the ring after you have become attached is like returning your bride after the honeymoon because she burns the biscuits. Flip is now 28, so her flipping days are limited. She is now the go-to, grandkids’ horse and she was packing three or four of them up and down the road last week.

If this gender dysphoria hiccup is caught while the horse is still in the sale ring, the audience of buyers can be notified, the ring man can lift the filly’s tail for all to see, and the auctioneer will announce the final gender determination before proceeding. It is the fitting and proper thing to do. We will let our pony scamper around the ring while we review a similar gender dysphoric incident which recently occurred at the University of Cincinnati.

A young student foolishly swapped her hard-earned money for a class called “Women’s Gender Studies in Pop Culture” and in her final paper she used the term “biological women.” This drew the ire of the professor who awarded the paper a “zero” for using “outdated terminology,” and this brings me to my point. The faculty nuts teaching gender studies are no different at the University of Montana or the University of Your State than at the University of Cincinnati. Don’t waste your money on college, instead, buy a real horse, learn how to rope, pull a calf, and fix fence. It is more honorable and marketable to learn a trade than let some lowly college professor convince you, you are a victim.