When kids come out it, can really throw their parents for a loop, and today's increasingly complicated array of identities and orientations can make the process even more confusing and fraught. When ...

Toco, the Japanese man who enjoys dressing as a collie, is part of a larger pack. Psychologists believe Toco might be a therian, someone who identifies with a nonhuman animal species. That’s not the ...

A mum has taken to a parenting platform to ask for advice after her nine-year-old daughter told her she identified as a ‘therian’ and wanted to be treated as such. Unsure of what to do, she shared the ...

“I don’t know how to talk to her about it, I don’t even understand how she could think she’s an animal,” the distressed mum reveals. She and my dad had this whole bit where they would play-act the ...

The bride didn’t find it hiss-terical. A woman had her outdoor wedding nearly ruined when an uninvited woman pretending to be a cat — with a “kitty mask,” ears, fake tail and all — crawled on her ...