Also yes @Grail this post was inspired by Your response to me in 196. Was something I ended up thinking about for a while. I didn't mention You in the post since user mentions can sometimes break Mastodon posting to Lemmy/Threadiverse services.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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A place for all people, creatures and entities etc that do not see themselves as human and want to transition to something else or who are already are in some way whether that be internally, socially, with technology or surgery etc.
This is not a place to debate the existence of us, call us mentally ill etc. If you do, you will be banned.
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Humans tend to like being addressed with labels like "man", "woman", and "person", rather than "male", "female", and "critter". They tend to dislike having it/its pronouns used to refer to them. While some of them like being pet on the head and given treats, it's less than many animal species. Since you're a dragon furry, a critter might assume you identify as a dragon and start talking about the wings, tail, horns, and claws they imagine you to have. I've even seen the assumed presence of horns cause body dysmorphia in the dragonkin community, between dragons who have horns and dragons who don't.
And I'm actually treating you as a human right not by treating you like you don't already know all of this stuff. Members of the community are assumed to have a certain level of knowledge and direct experience with labels, phantom sensations, etc. Because if someone's otherkin and they know it, they must have felt certain feelings and read certain information to reach that point. It's not the same feelings and information for everyone, but people sometimes assume it is.
Another thing is, you probably don't want people asking your kintype or offering to help you connect to your astral body. Those are nice things to do to an otherkin, but humans can get a bit confused when it happens to them. Humans tend to already be happy with their physical bodies. And I'm not talking about sexual characteristics, I mean stuff like having skin and fingernails and tongues. Disgusting sources of dysphoria to many otherkin, but perfectly agreeable to humans.
Humans, in general, tend to assume that they are the only ones worth being treated a certain way and disregard all species as worth less consideration than them (though some humans also consider other humans that way too, sadly).
We agree with @zivi@fedi.absturztau.be that "people" can be used to refer to any species and all people deserve respect, autonomy, care and consideration, even if a person has been conditioned to think of others as beneath them they should do their best to go against this conditioning.
Anything else is speciesism, whether the person is a cis member of their species or a trans member of their species.
@Draconic_NEO make the distinction between human and person and insist on it
human is an irrelevant biological characteristic
people, aka sapient beings, are what matters