Anxieyote
Sobriety over everything else • 30 • Midwest
- Mar 24, 2021
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It's one thing to have "acceptable" forms of body dysmorphia (male to female, female to male, etc.) but it seems like any other identification is seen purely as a mental illness.
I was watching a YouTube video where people were arguing about a "deer gender" where one of them was saying he had no problem identifying someone using deer pronouns because they had always identified more with deers than humans. And the other person was basically like, "No way in hell am I ever going to respect animal pronouns. Those people need serious mental help."
A popular online progressive named Destiny also denounced animal pronouns in a recent livestream, calling them "ridiculous" and arguing that it delegitimizes the people who experience real gender dysphoria.
This has actually been on my mind for a long time because I have looked at animals and thought to myself, "I wish I could be that instead of a human. My human body sucks."
I feel like it follows the same thought process that people who experience gender dysmorphia go through.
"I like guys. I really like guys. I want to be a guy. I'm a guy now."
"I like foxes. I really like foxes. I want to be a fox. I'm a fox now."
That's an over-simplification of course, and everyone's journey to discovering their gender is different, but I wouldn't want to delegitimize someone who truly felt that way.
You can identify as something that fits within the definition of human, but once you start crossing species, everyone checks out.
Visually, transitioning from a male to a female just requires you to dress like one, get some surgeries, take hormone pills, and you're good to go. People are more accepting of that because it is, at least, possible. It's not inconceivable that a man could look like a woman, and a woman could look like a man if they wanted to.
But if you look at an animal you like, and say, "I identify as that", there's no DNA-splicer to give you the physical traits of said animal. You could argue that you and the animal share certain characteristics or personalities that you identify with, but you're never going to "pass" as an animal in anyone's eyes.
I think that Vaush (another YouTube creator) had the best take on it out of everyone when he said something like, "We'll cross that bridge when it comes. Right now, it's important to advocate for base-level trans rights like MtF, non-binaries, FtM because they're palatable ideas that everyone can get behind. But I do think it would be really fucking cool to have a tail at some point in the future."
I was watching a YouTube video where people were arguing about a "deer gender" where one of them was saying he had no problem identifying someone using deer pronouns because they had always identified more with deers than humans. And the other person was basically like, "No way in hell am I ever going to respect animal pronouns. Those people need serious mental help."
A popular online progressive named Destiny also denounced animal pronouns in a recent livestream, calling them "ridiculous" and arguing that it delegitimizes the people who experience real gender dysphoria.
This has actually been on my mind for a long time because I have looked at animals and thought to myself, "I wish I could be that instead of a human. My human body sucks."
I feel like it follows the same thought process that people who experience gender dysmorphia go through.
"I like guys. I really like guys. I want to be a guy. I'm a guy now."
"I like foxes. I really like foxes. I want to be a fox. I'm a fox now."
That's an over-simplification of course, and everyone's journey to discovering their gender is different, but I wouldn't want to delegitimize someone who truly felt that way.
You can identify as something that fits within the definition of human, but once you start crossing species, everyone checks out.
Visually, transitioning from a male to a female just requires you to dress like one, get some surgeries, take hormone pills, and you're good to go. People are more accepting of that because it is, at least, possible. It's not inconceivable that a man could look like a woman, and a woman could look like a man if they wanted to.
But if you look at an animal you like, and say, "I identify as that", there's no DNA-splicer to give you the physical traits of said animal. You could argue that you and the animal share certain characteristics or personalities that you identify with, but you're never going to "pass" as an animal in anyone's eyes.
I think that Vaush (another YouTube creator) had the best take on it out of everyone when he said something like, "We'll cross that bridge when it comes. Right now, it's important to advocate for base-level trans rights like MtF, non-binaries, FtM because they're palatable ideas that everyone can get behind. But I do think it would be really fucking cool to have a tail at some point in the future."