may i ask you what the exact definition of physical non humanity is then? this is a genuine question!
is physical nonhumanity another label for people who have delusions regarding their physical body being inhuman? if so, i’m not sure why anyone has an issue with that. being schizospec or delusional isn’t a crime, those aren’t bad words and i have no idea why physical nonhumanity would be such a widely discriminated against group of people by therians and other alter humans, who also identify as being something Other, even if not physically.
i would prefer if someone would just say it in a straight forward manner that’s easily understandable as i don’t always grasp topics when people are feather footing around saying what they actually mean.
In short, at least by how it was originally used within community spaces before definitions became widened and muddied to the point of essentially meaninglessness, it is what it says on the ticket - physically nonhuman.
A physical nonhuman is someone that experiences meaningful nonhumanity in a physical, literal, non-metaphorical way. This can take the form of physical transformations, having animal parts internal or external including bloed, genetics, organs, or some other means of being physically, biologically, nonhuman.
Many of us have been labeled as delusional, either by the psychiatric system or by therian/otherkind/alterhuman community, but for the most part reject that understanding. There is a significant crossover between those identifying as physically nonhuman and clinical zoanthropy, but they are not the same experience as the latter has a narrower and stricter definition and is much more defined by the relationship to psychiatrisation where the former is defined by the relationship to and form of nonhumanity. The community regretably does have a very strong push towards "consensus reality" and towards sanism that often makes it so those with physical identity cannot find refuge within therian and brothercommunity spaces as we are forced to deny our experience as genuine and are subjected to constant "reality check"s. Why exactly I really cannot say - it might be an effect of legitimancy to outsiders, to themselves, or some misguided belief that it will protect us or them.
The waters though get muddy because others started using that word as well from mechanically applying transgender frameworks to animal identity viewed that identifying as the creature - generally animal as this was primarily a therian behaviour - meant that your body was inherently a [species] body in the same way that popular transgender frameworks set that a transwoman's body is still a woman's body because she is a woman, regardless of effect or degree transition. While this sort of framework and understanding can be useful or helpful in certain contexts, it led to a very metaphorical understanding of physical nonhuman eventually coming to dominate. Pushback against our spaces being occupied and destroyed though were met with cries of exclusion, superiourity, and continued mechanical application of transgender frameworks, and in the end their voices were simply louder, aligned more with the hegemonic narrative within therian spaces, and there were more of them that eventually many of us just had to leave or retreat to our own follower feed, specific tasks that we continued to defend, or discords and leave tumblr entirely.
