In this modern world, many people who would think of themselves as ‘normal and well-balanced’ are comfortable with the concepts of gender dysmorphia and body dysmorphia; the idea of being of one gender, in the body of the other sex (a person who identifies themselves as (e.g.) female, who is born as a physical (phenotype) male).

Middle England is comfortable with this idea, if a little overly interested in the salacious details of it all…

I’m sure you’re ahead of my already, you know where I’m going with this…

Yes, the concept of dysmorphia fits well with the concept of being Otherkin; a man born as a male who feels female and self-identifies as a woman knows how frustrating it is to be told “it’s all in your head” or “you’re obviously a man, just look at you”.  People who go through the long process of sex-change have to face the doubts of society, as well as their own. Changing sex usually involves years of living as your identified gender, years of psychiatric evaluations and then complicated, expensive, invasive and uncomfortable surgery.

Some people, (many Kin) might say that the person’s Spirit was born into, (was imprinted onto) the wrong physical body; that a male Spirit ended up inside a female body.

It’s clear how a Kin can be comfortable with this sort of cosmic mistake / choice! Many Kin believe that they are the Spirit of another race, in a human body – either as a cosmic mistake, or as spiritual life-choice.

I’m wondering now if races of humans ever feel Racial Dysmorphia; the feeling that a person is born of the wrong race?

I’m sure there are lots of people who adopt religions other than the religion of their parents, but I’m not talking about a spiritual yearning, I’m taking about genetic race, as a fact.
Are there Chinese people who feel Arabian ‘inside’? Are there Scottish people who remember their last incarnation as an Australian so strongly that they feel out of place in Scotland? Are there White South Africans who feel they’re inside the ‘wrong’ (for them) coloured skin?


Most people believe in some kind of G~d – they may not be religious, but they believe in ‘something’ even if they’re not sure what G~d is.

Perhaps they also then believe in a everlasting Spirit or ‘soul’ – they’re own insolvable identity, they’re own unique and indestructible pattern.

Many people around the world believe in reincarnation, the idea that life-forms come back to life on Earth in a life and death cycle, that has them born as a variety of animals, and humans, as they’re ‘soul’ or Spirit feels the need. Buddha taught that the only end to this cycle of reincarnation was to learn enough about the meaning of life to reach a state where one has no desires, and therefore no longer ‘suffers’ – the cycle might go on for many many generations, and thousands of years, as the ‘soul’ chooses to learn new things.

The Dali Lama himself is the reincarnation of the last Dali Lama, which ensures the full and absolute continuation of the Dali Lama’s life-path, and his spiritual leadership of the Buddhists.

In Essence

To repeat, we have a natural understanding of Gender Dysmorphia, and how people may feel born into the wrong body.

We have somewhat of an understanding of reincarnation, and we respect it as a belief just as we respect that some people believe in a heaven where G~d lives.

I submit that it’s easy enough to consider the concept of Otherkiness in the context of (re)incarnation and dysmorphia – my contention is that Otherkin are people incarnated into a human body and are aware that they could feel more comfortable in a body type that suits their nature or sprit.

And, it’s easy to discuss the possibility of life on other planets in our universe.

But, I have an inverse worry.

It could be said that Gender Dysmorphia is a learned ‘disorder’, stemming from environmental and hormonal events. It could be said that person identifies as their opposite sex because of the way they have been brought up, the perceptual filters they develop, and hormonal matters, both prenatal in the womb and throughout adolescence and adulthood.

I could be said that reincarnation is merely a dogmatic belief, a traditional viewpoint, superstitious and without evidence or merit, in the same way that some people dismiss the very concept of the ‘soul’ for being without evidentiary proof.

Even people who do believe in the ‘soul’ don’t all believe in the possibility of reincarnation.

So, clearly, we’re dealing with beliefs here, and we can’t cite anecdotal evidence of ‘pat life memories’ with conviction, as any Psychologist will tell us that memory is a constructive mechanism, and the mind cannot tell the difference between a memory of a real life event, or a false memory – memory is memory to the mind. Even real life events are ‘remembered’ rather poorly – eye-witness testimony of crimes is incredibly unreliable; if you haven’t heard this said, do a search for “eye witness testimony” and you’ll see how unstable it is, even if it’s admissible in a law court!