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How do people feel about the idea of Species Dysphoria (en.everybodywiki.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Has anyone here heard of it before, if so what are your opinions on it? I'm curious to hear what you have to say because I've mentioned it in the past and have received hostility from people either saying I'm crazy or that I'm "making fun of trans people".

I think some people deny that I really have it but I'm certain that is what I have since I literally have phantom limb sensations from a tail that I just don't have, including phantom pain which really sucks actually.

I just wanted to talk about this a bit. I'm not sure if this is the right community but the otherkin communities are very empty.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

As a nonbinary person myself I feel it's none of my business what configuration of self another individual needs to feel "right" inside. I can also understand the impulse even from other trans people to think that one might be being disingenuous. It wasn't that long ago that my identity was the one "making fun of trans people" for just wanting to exist in a way that makes me happy.

The problem is that even if the "most extreme" identities that bigots are using to justify their hate didn't exist it's not like the hate will actually stop. They'll just start lying about the next "most fringe" identity.