The Chinese Zodiac

I was born in the year of the goat, and a girl I know was born in the year of the pig.

Now certain "voices" are trying to tell me that I was born in the year of the "ram" and that my (admittedly not that ugly) friend was born in the year of the "boar". Well I don't want to be a ram and my friend doesn't want to be a boar. No way Mr. Sing. Screw you, your fortune cookie and your crappy placemat. We were happy just being the laid back farm animals that we were before.

Is this a case of political correctness gone mad? A mix up at the lab? Poor translation? An interracial/interstellar trans-gender revisionist conspiracy against the gwailo?

I must know the truth.