I Guess I Find The Current Discourse On Labels Kinda Pointless Because, Ultimately, If A Human Doesn’t

i guess i find the current discourse on labels kinda pointless because, ultimately, if a human doesn’t want to believe you are what you say you are as a non-human, no amount of scientific evidence will convince them.

throwing pshifters/holotheres/physical non-humans/CLCZ/folks with delusions/etc under the bus doesn’t convince humans that you, one of the “normal” and “sane” nonhumans, are for real. that YOUR identity is legit but the “others” aren’t.

if they don’t want to believe you, they won’t. trying to make yourself palatable to humans who don’t want to believe is pointless.

the humans will still think you’re joking, at best. more likely, they’ll still think you’re just like us “crazy” ones. you don’t earn brownie points for being “logical”.

ive seen - and personally experienced - similar issues with other facets of identity when i tried to explain my gender as a trans man to someone. it didn’t matter how much scientific evidence of trans identity i showed him, it didn’t matter how many research articles i found, it didn’t matter in what ways or shapes or forms i tried to prove it was a real thing; he had already made up his mind that it wasn’t real, science be damned. science doesn’t matter to someone who doesn’t want it to matter.

likewise, a human who doesn’t think being non-human in a body that looks human is real won’t believe you, even if you throw the “crazies” onto the pyre.

whether someone can prove they are what they claim on a scientific level is, ultimately, irrelevant. because even if we tried, even if we could, even if we WANTED to, humans wouldn’t believe it if they didn’t want to believe it.

don’t sacrifice part of the community for the sake of human tastes and ideals on what is and isn’t real. they don’t live it. they don’t know.