yes!!

I hate that both of these are ones I don't really want to go too deep into the personal on but, like. what more to say beyond "I have reasons to want the catharsis of revenge and can identify with someone in a similar boat, esp with the gendered aspect" and "I am a furry"

I guess...catgirls are an interesting topic because they're part of the category of girls marked in some additional way that allows a closeted trans girl to more easily let herself want to be them without immediately dismissing the idea. you want the tail and the ears. and also to be in some way feline. and culturally feline is equated to feminine. but you aren't quite as forced to acknowledge that

I do think part of the personal appeal now is the same weird girl appeal of denpa-kei, being openly not normative and other people just have to accept that. plus you get a tail