Otherkin are a favourite with Internet trolls, mostly with the justification that they want to show how ridiculous otherkin really are, and how much harm they do to trans and social justice communities, and it’s interesting that they have to antagonize people and spread misinformation to do that. They make fake blogs, posing as, say a “transethnic pizzakin,” then make posts spreading misinformation, such as conflating being otherkin and trans, or spreading inaccurate Pagan practices, or mocking mentally ill people (really, these blogs are terrible to everyone). And then these troll blogs are used by bigots to invalidate trans people, which creates backlash against otherkin, which causes kin communities to become hostile and defensive, and so on in a vicious, vicious circle.

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