I typically tend to stay quiet with my opinions, but... I think I need to stand up and say something for once, lest I become complacent with whatever may happen. Otherkin are perfectly, 100% valid, and it absolutely sucks that it seems they're shoved away by practically everyone. It's like, they get laughed at and made out to be crazy by the insensitive, and the people that ordinarily would have a bigger heart for such things pushes them away with the concept that their feelings are invalid.

Is calling someone who doesn't like kin a TERF correct? No. But there's still invalidation and exclusion going on, exclusion of a group that feels like it has nobody but themselves to back them up.

I remember feeling so validated, so happy for once, when I was told for the first time I could be female if I wanted to be. It was the first time I was really honestly told something like that, and a fresh of breath air, when I was used to hearing at best I'd need to have some crippling gender dysphoria before I could even think about being female, and at worst being told I'm definitely male, I would be an ugly girl, and I shouldn't entertain the thought at all.

Why can't kin have a similar relief? Is it too much? I don't think kin want to rule the world, nor do I think they want to be given ridiculous demands. I'm fairly certain most kin live their lives fairly normally. I just think... they want to be valid. Who is it hurting to let someone be who they want to be?