I’m still unsure if I’m a beastie but if I’ve always felt connected to canines of any kind in particular and at times see myself *as* one or an anthro one. How would I go about transitioning into one? Is it possible to still be a canine/any beast and be femme/female? I want to be female cause I am and like it but a female beast. Not a girl or woman. I hope this make sense thank you for your time.
Anyone can become physically nonhuman, anyone can become a beast. The difference really is this: are you ready to face people who think you shouldn't be there? Are you ready to deal with people pulling on your tail and your laughing at your mods? Are you ready to deal with people sexualizing your identity/demonizing it? Are you ready to physically and publicly be yourself in a way where you have a higher risk of being attacked or otherwise noticed and treated as a freak? and finally, are you willing to fight back against it instead of hide?
The thing about beasts, from my observation and my own will, is that we most likely go through many, many different intersecting struggles. Many of us are already transgender. Many of us are POC. Many of us are already minorities in our other communities, especially in nonhuman spaces because we are beasts and physically exist as such. A lot of us are actively targeted for our skin, gender, or the presentation of our species. The amount of times I have seen online a trans beast talk about how someone said they were a "trans in an animal mask" or a "degenerate zoo" is something I can't count on my hands because it is wild how the outward physical becoming as a beast somehow just.. warrants this behavior. It shouldn't.
I’m still unsure if I’m a beastie but if I’ve always felt connected to canines of any kind in particular and at times see myself as one or an anthro one.
This admission right here does not mean that you want to be a beast. This admission only means that you are feeling strong connections to an animal in a way where you would identify as one. You might be a non-beast, non-physical otherkin/therian. That is all for you to figure out on your own, as I cannot give you much advice on that given that my awakening was sharp and fast and hit me like a truck.
How would I go about transitioning into one? Is it possible to still be a canine/any beast and be femme/female?
If you do end up figuring out that you want to be a beast, the canine route is a very familiar route for me and for others. Many of the other beasts I have met are coyotes, dogs, or wolves. As written in my Deviae Transitioning Guide, I suggest that you do "4-5 months Lavalced on rotating application areas (tailbone, face, arms, legs), then either DHEA or DHT (your choice). Stretching of the tailbone area and ears is highly recommended while undergoing growth changes."
Personally, I follow the mythos recommendation and have tweaked my own animal HRT routine (which has been reduced to DHEA; Monday and Friday every week and Lavalced/Biotin everyday).
As for the question about becoming female, I am assuming that what you mean is that you want to be a female beast. You can, it doesn't matter. You don't have to be a girl or a woman to be female because those two concepts are not the same at all, they're just clustered together because that is how the law and the medical field refers to them because it is easier to categorize than give us bodily autonomy. That is one of the reasons as to why beasts are so adamant on the physical parts of them, the medical transition, or the body mods that are permanent. Because these things cement into reality the fact that our existence is wholly physical and soon, it will be legally accepted as legitimate. Understanding that your body has the capability to be labeled anything and be revoked of any title makes female/male less physical, man/woman less binary, and makes the world more varied - and that is why we need to fight for our right to be labeled what we want to be and to be respected because we fought for it.
