Obvious answer: institutional backing.
But I wonder why troons succeeded in garnering this kind of support while furries failed. I pull a complete blank on why. If anything, the ridiculousness of denying one's own gender is just as ridiculous as denying one's own species.
The similarities are uncanny:
- Origins in the pride/gay rights bullshit
- Delusions of self: "I am not what I am, I am what I imagine."
- Cluster effect: exposure to trannies creates trannies, just like exposure to furries creates furries.
- Insufferable personalities and overbearing self-inserting into normal spaces.
- Claiming negative reactions of the previous point as prosecution. "Literal Trans Genocide" vs "Fursecution"
- Expensive conversion to one's perfect form: Chopadickectomy vs full body Fursuit.
- Abject degenerate sexual tendencies with zero self restraint
- Subversive even to the concept of normality, seemingly proud to be a deviant.
- Riddled with mental illness: anxiety, depression, prone to violence
Queer Theory has been moving through academia and seeping its way into psychiatry for decades. Plus we have degenerate elites funding and promoting the ideas. Their long labors have finally produced this rotten fruit.
It would be much more difficult to create a psuedoscientific narrative claiming that some humans were born with the "mind of an animal". Not impossible though. We do have that "two spirits" bullshit that a few people actually take seriously.
They'd have to be fast talkers, because if they don't convince everyone before someone accuses them of talking about black people they're going to get assassinated.