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
The ratcheting mechanism only works when each shift is a small change and furries were too obviously ridiculous to take seriously and exploit. But this is starting too. Here in Australia children in school who identify as animals must have their identity "affirmed" by teachers.