I’ve always found this essay to be a good insight into the ways in which humans, nonhumans and everyone in between share experiences. On the topic of species dysphoria, there is also the manner of being in a body you don’t know how to operate. That context makes it all the more understandable why a human being see this transformation as a grievance. Not only are they thrust out of their own bodies, some are stuck trying to figure out how to manage the needs of a body that isn’t similar to their own in some way.

One way of looking at it is this: imagine living as a fish all your life, but one day, you wake up in the body of a fox. It’d be confusing for anyone, so it makes sense why it’d be deeply confusing and upsetting for a human being to be in that position with any nonhuman form.