(i ripped this off wikipedia real fast so sorry if it's lib)
In October 1776, the Public Universal Friend contracted an epidemic disease and was bedridden and near death with a high fever. Their family summoned a doctor from Attleboro, six miles away, and neighbors kept up a death-watch at night. The fever broke after several days. The Friend later reported that [deadname redacted] had died, receiving revelations from God through two archangels who proclaimed there was "Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone". The Friend further said that [deadname redacted]'s soul had ascended to heaven and the body had been reanimated with a new spirit charged by God with preaching his word, that of the "Publick Universal Friend", describing that name in the words of Isaiah 62:2 as "a new name which the mouth of the Lord hath named".
From that time on, the Friend refused to answer to their deadname, ignoring or chastising those who insisted on using it. When visitors asked if it was the name of the person they were addressing, the Friend simply quoted Luke 23:3 ("thou sayest it").β Identifying as neither male nor female, the Friend asked not to be referred to with gendered pronouns. Followers respected these wishes; they referred only to "the Public Universal Friend" or short forms such as "the Friend" or "P.U.F.", and many avoided gender-specific pronouns even in private diaries. When someone asked if the Friend was male or female, the preacher replied "I am that I am", saying the same thing to a man who criticized the Friend's manner of dress (adding, in the latter case, "there is nothing indecent or improper in my dress or appearance; I am not accountable to mortals").
editorial note: I think this is a very cool story and I really love hearing it. We've been around forever and we've been doing variations of this forever. It's really beautiful
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this is how you can tell you're an older trans :p. I've dated several puppy girls , 2 rabbit girls, and a cat girl. you'd think the cat would be more than bunny
Iβm not that old, and I have hardly interacted with the therian community personally. Kind of itβs own community. I also live under a rock.
I know of Therians via the otherkin community but i haven't met many of either.
Nooooo my age is shooooowing
This isn't an age thing, it's purely just not being aware. I have heard of Therian people almost a decade ago but I have been in different communities.
I just more mean, people talk about it now more openly. ofc people with diverse expressions of self have always existed
Even here it isn't talked about much and the few comments where it has been touched on can be missed so it isn't unreasonable that some people can be completely unaware especially if they don't cross paths with certain things even in current year.
tbh it's something I kind of took for granted, but i'm realizing just isn't common knowledge, especially around online trans people. like surely just by osmosis people pick up on it?
wrong assumption to make lol. I'm glad our puppy/cat/etc comrades are accepted here regardless