Sometimes someone is just a dog, in a literal sense, as species. Not a human who leans into dog aesthetics because they feel alienated from binary genders due to trauma.

Sometimes someone just actually lacks gender or has an alien gender. And they're not just a man or a woman but in a way that's especially complex and nuanced.

“but there’s no systematic oppression against alterhumans!” See but there is. It’s saneism. Saneism may not outwardly appear to target alterhumans but can you see how it does? Can you see how alterhumans are consistently labeled as “crazy”, “delusional”, even dangerous?

this is a mix of alterhumisia and transandrophobia but i think its still relevant to send here

( for context, this happened a while ago and i am no longer friends with this person for a plethora of reasons )

i was talking to my friend ( she / they ) about how i get dysphoria from being transmasc, and i also get dysphoria from being an alterhuman, and that they're often hard to differentiate since they present in similar ways ( i get gender dysphoria from not having enough body / facial hair but also nonhuman dysphoria as i don't have fur, things like that ) and they instantly started saying that i must be faking being transmasc then.

i asked her why and she said " you cant be alterhuman and transmasc, that's not how it works. you saying your dysphoria is similar is proof of that. " so, i was really confused and said " but you're trans too ?? and you're also a therian ?? " to which they replied " but i'm not transmasc. that's the problem. you're transmasc. "

after a small back and fourth of us debating on whether i'm actually an alterhuman or not, she said " well you still look like a cunt so you are just a cunt. bitchy theyfabs like you just want to invade the alterhuman community when you should know by now that you aren't welcome. "

there was more that was said but i cant write it because uh. slurs that neither of us could reclaim were used ( by them ). but i was genuinely just shocked that she was so comfortable saying that to me.

This is transandrophobia and exorsexism

The belief that you need to transition and have dysphoria to be an alternuman

Other beliefs:

Otherlinks/funlinks aren't really alterhuman nor valid. Their voluntary choice is not dysphoria.

You cannot choose to be alterhuman

Otherlinks shouldn't call it an identity, it's roleplay

Otherhumans don't exist, to be alterhuman is to be nonhuman. You can be a half human, full animal, but that's it. You can't identify as human you are already human.

Otherpaw is a useless label for people who wanna feel special and it mocks the alterhuman community

Fictionkinning shouldn't be fun, and fictionlinks shouldn't treat identity like it's a choice. Same with funlinks, they shouldn't treat it like it's a fun thing

Spiritual therians and mental therians are bullshit, you can't spiritually transition nor mentally transition, both are delusional, spirituality does not exist either. The only valid ones are physical and non physical because they actually work on wanting to be seen as such whereas the first 2 don't