Did the furry fandom helps you discover your gender? Did it help you feel more welcome?

For me personally, being a furry helps me to cope with dysphoria for years before my egg cracked. I used to imagine that I’m an anthro animal all the time to cope with dysphoria before I even knew what dysphoria was.

And aside from a few trans communities (like r/egg_irl), the furry fandom also exposes myself to queer people and queer media in general, which in retrospect might help me sympathize with them more instead of hating it like what most people do.

I’m so glad that this community is very accepting towards people of all sexualities and gender. Being trans in this fandom generally feels pretty safe, at least safer than most other fandoms. Thank you so much.

  • Yolk
    1•1 year ago

    It seems like most people here are in the “furry first trans later” boat, so I wanted to share the opposite perspective. I’m FTM

    My parents knew I was gonna be queer since I was little. I always liked girls and my gender ideology hadn’t caught up yet when I pursued my first crush in 5th grade. It was only then when I was faced with being a lesbian that I thought about and was like “hmm no I’m just a guy” and I totally nailed it lmao

    I wasn’t really exposed to the furry fandom until 2 years later- 7th grade. It was following a massive trauma in my life and really helped ground me. It also opened the door for a lot of grooming through the fandom unfortunately. I definitely think it has a much larger impact on my understanding of my sexuality than my gender, though the freedom of choice that’s presented through the fandom’s acceptance is worth more than gold

    I only ever had guy sonas and they helped me embrace being weird coded for sure. I’m autistic and I don’t think I was really able to deal with it emotionally, so I had my character’s deal with it instead and lived through that

    The most influential figure in my transness is a trans teacher who took me under his wing early on and really saved my life. He’s not a furry but was very supportive of all my weird furry art and my first shitty tiger fursuit. We’re still friends