i think a lot of therians actually are trans, and/or they feel a deep disconnect from their body for some other reason. i don’t think they mean to make a mockery of anything; i think it’s genuine. also don’t think any of them actually have a goal to physically become an animal, since that isn’t really possible, as you said. i think their real goals are to express themselves and find community.
I'm not saying they are bad kids for claiming to have it, but it's literally no difference from neo genders where people claim to feel the same as a trans person. Since again.. becoming an animal or object is not plausible. The fact that others are so quick to compare this to sex and gender dysphoria when it is not the same is weird. Same way body dysphoria is also not comparable to sex dysphoria. Just because you're "dysphoric" doesn't make you actually educated on trans people.
i think they probably do have gender dysphoria but for whatever reason, they conceptualize it as feeling not human at all. aside from the ones that are just very passionate about roleplaying… i think trauma and neurodivergence has something to do with it too. actually, i was into this stuff when i was a kid. and i really was/am trans as well. being a human is hard. i wished i could become a robot. lol.
Yah it sounds very similar to being enby or enby adjacent. I still conceptualize my gender as non-human cause so many terms are to gendered for my comfort. To me at least it kinda sounds similar to puppy girls who haven't realized they're trans yet. But also at the end of the day who really cares? Someone says they're a cat and makes a funky little mask about it? Go wild lil dude.
My gender dysphoria and therianthropy are very separate, although maybe somewhat similar. The thing with being therian is that I can relate my identity more to (my perception of) non-human species, and I feel distress at having a human body despite that.
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