A peer-reviewed study of 14
transracial
people[3] found that the participants experienced dissatisfaction with their bodies and faces. 10 individuals had made body modifications, such as hairstyle and colour or wearing a wig, wearing makeup or coloured contact lenses, tanning their skin to look darker or using sunscreen to whiten it, cosmetic surgery on their nose and lips, and ethnic tattoos. Clothing was also adapted to match identity. 1 had changed his name. 1 had changed her personality.
The mismatch between biological ethnicity and identity was noticed by some people before they were 10 years old, most at ages 10-15 years, and the oldest were 25 and 30 years old.
Transracial people were more likely than average to experience mental health issues, especially depression, which had affected 10 of the 14 people. The study suggested possible comparisons to Transgender and Body Integrity Dysphoria.
10 of the people offered reasons for their transracial identity development. These included:
Affection for the culture and related music of the group identfied with.
Disliking their home country's culture, feelings of not belonging, being bullied, and wanting to start a new life and new identity.
Identification with the environment they grew up in.
The influence of having relatives and friends from different cultures.
Coping with a violent family environment.
Feeling they already resembled people from their identified culture in terms of their personality, behaviour, and physique.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transracial_(identity)
Not only but also:
"I feel my selfhood to be discrete from this body. It's not inherently me—it's just a vehicle I'm operating. Plus, what does it mean to be human, anyway?"
Riviera identifies as a dragon. He decided this 15 years ago after having what he describes as prophetic dreams of a past life. As an "otherkin," he is one of the hundreds of
Australians who identify as another species—whether from Earth or myth.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/yvwknv/what-does-it-mean-to-be-trans-species
Or, or, or:
This individual, who shall go unnamed unless he wishes to identify himself in the comments section, was a self-professed “zoophile” (Greek for “animal lover”) with a particular romantic affinity for horses, and he was hoping that I might devote one of my column pieces to this neglected, much-maligned topic of forbidden interspecies love. “The politics of acknowledging
zoophilia as a ‘legitimate’ sexual orientation,” wrote this reader, “often mean that zoophiles are either ignored as a class or subject to what can only be described as the most vicious, sustained, and hateful attacks by mainstream society.”Scientific American
The madness never ends, it is unbounded, by definition.