Yeah, I also don't understand. (Also, they're not even the ones that doctors assigned the word to first! That's why it's called "gender dysphoria" and not just "dysphoria". It meant depression first.)

I think he is just very stuck in the past, in many ways. The otherkin community is not what it used to be, or not the way he remembers it anyway... these kids these days! Get off my lawn! Etc.