I was teaching freshman comp and had a student of indeterminate sex who claimed to be a fox "otherkin." He or she (a rather androgynous looking young person) wore a coonskin cap and a fox tail out her back pocket and frisked around, which she probably imagined a fox might do.

You cannot make this nonsense up. Now such delusion is not only being seriously countenanced but protected and nurtured. It would be harmlessly eccentric were it not for the pernicious political lobby that apparently wants to normalize delusions and hallucinations and that demonizes/silences anyone who objects.

Anything goes, as long as it ain't normal or wholesome.