Can I ask a stupid question? How is this any different than males who feel that they are females, and vice versa? WE are lectured by liberals about the “trans-whatever” peoples, and that we have to be liberal towards demands such as allowing biological males into female locker rooms if such person self-identifies as female.
So, is it a stretch that a person feels that they are really not a human, but are a different species???
Damn good question. We recently went through a situation in our company (a different plant, thankfully) where a guy thought he was a gal. I was talking to one of the workers down there and he agreed that it would have been easier to make accommodations for somebody who thought he was Napoleon.
Back before the science of psychiatry went nuts, we identified such people as nuts and treated them accordingly. Now, the inmates are running the asylum.
This dawg, f'rinstance, isn't going to need any special restroom accommodations. Just send him outside to life his leg on a nearby tree.
“Can I ask a stupid question? How is this any different than males who feel that they are females, and vice versa?”
You beat me to it.
What you are doing is using a logical principle advanced by Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein. It is a type of defining philosophy. Ol’ Ludwig was an odd fish but his realization that saying “I don’t like you” is the same as saying “I don’t like cabbage” is actually a very useful logical tool. If the left claims that a being whose DNA tells us is a human but thinks he is a dog is crazy then a being whose DNA tells us he is a male but thinks he is a female is also crazy.
This is just my opinion but I would say that this is different b/c...
In gender identity disorders, those people identify as the opposite sex to the point that challenging their "identity" causes stress/anxiety, or other "negative" effects. They honestly believe that they are, or want to be, what they are clearly not. (And yes, in my opinion, these people have serious psychological problems.)
In dog-boy's case, it would seem that he is fully aware that he is human but really, really enjoys pretending to be a dog. Notice that he has a light and reads in his doghouse. He interacts with people in a (at least mostly) human fashion. He isn't always "Boomer".
Is he weird? Sure. Does he suffer from psychological problems? Quite probably. Is this the same as gender identity disorder? Not even close.
Of course, this answer doesn't even start to cover the respective effect on society by each type of case (gender confusion & dog-boy). Somewhere in there is where the meat of the answer can be found.