If I seriouspost on the subject, I generally don't mind furries. Some of 'em are creepy as hell, but so are many non-furries. So they like to put some cute critter pic up as their forum / IM avatar and pretend they're something else when they're on the internet. Or sometimes they add it into their cosplay hobbies. Honestly, I'd be pretty messed up if I took an issue with it: a lot of them are just nerds whose best friends in life were animals, and they want to emulate that sort of experience with human relationships. Or maybe they just stumbled onto some chan board during an image raid, and something caught their eye. Either way, I regard it with a lot more respect than I would vampire nuts: at least they aren't fantasizing about mind-controlling people into loving them while also having their way with the mind-controlled person's body, you know?
It don't confront me none, a'long as I get my rent paid on Friday.
But then you get these... people, caught up in wanting to be a special snowflake, yelling at you for not using a pronoun that you've never even heard of when you tell your other friend, "Oh hey, can she come hang out with us too?" or demanding to be exempt from the uniform policy because their religion states that men aren't supposed to wear skirts. Why would somebody do that after applying to a maid cafe?! Do they not realize a maid cafe is where the serving staff wear maid uniforms?! Sheesh!
Now where was I?
Oh yeah, otherkin.
I saw an episode of Invader Zim once, where a guy in a chicken suit got his zipper stuck, so he believed he morphed into a half-chicken-half-man, and never bathed. Please don't be like that guy: people have enough trouble accepting the mild deviations of the norm, and freak out / get offended if somebody claims to not believe in christ or express the idea that men are not superior beings. Maybe a day will come where surgical options become available, but it's not likely to be for another century or two, and then a century or two longer before such things are considered "not a freak of nature." I wouldn't treat you any differently myself, until you start telling me how magical you are, or that you've been touched by angels / devils, or that your religion is so important that I should drop everything to listen to you reciting your codex of infinite wisdom and why I'm wrong for believing differently.
Because then you're interfering, and lessening the reputation of other groups struggling for acceptance. I get the double standard, and that I'm being a hypocrite to a degree, but here's the thing: people hate change, and they won't shut up about it once it becomes mandatory. There are still klan wizards in my 'hood, and the same laws that protect minorities protect them. And you can bet one of 'em will try to get beastfolk classified as an endangered species, and if that goes through, all the 'kin will be kept in zoos.
And then things would get freaky. Please, don't do that. I don't want to not-raise any children in a world where that future refuses to change.
