# My daughter has a transgendered hamster

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-has-a-transgendered-hamster/554776>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 23, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-has-a-transgendered-hamster/554776 "2010-09-23T15:50:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-has-a-transgendered-hamster/554776/21 "2010-09-25T02:55:42Z")

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I had a few similar experiences with guinea pigs.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-has-a-transgendered-hamster/554776/22 "2010-09-25T06:16:44Z")

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Name her Firebird, 'cause she’s a TransHam!

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**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-has-a-transgendered-hamster/554776/23 "2010-09-26T23:52:49Z")

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> [@ReticulatingSplines](#):
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> It could still be a girl. Pet stores are notoriously bad at sexing small rodents.

True dat. We bought our last guinea pig from a store. Said it was female. The big ol’ dragging balls it developed a couple months later told us otherwise. A later vet visit confirmed this.

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**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-has-a-transgendered-hamster/554776/24 "2010-09-27T01:32:56Z")

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The whole “have trouble sexing rodents” is one of the reasons we have ONE hamster. She really wanted two. Between the “I don’t really trust these people to give me two of the same gender” and the possibility of finding a hamster feeding on the brains of another hamster…one hamster is enough.

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**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-has-a-transgendered-hamster/554776/25 "2010-09-27T02:36:41Z")

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> [@Dangerosa](#):
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> The whole “have trouble sexing rodents” is one of the reasons we have ONE hamster. She really wanted two. Between the “I don’t really trust these people to give me two of the same gender” and the possibility of finding a hamster feeding on the brains of another hamster…one hamster is enough.

They sell Zombie Hamsters?

Yes, I know. Band name!

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