@foone @lunareclipse Oh, so very much this!
All this wibbling in SF/F about "what it means to be human" and "discovering one's humanity."
I've been othered, dismissed and minimised my entire life, and I fully expect to be murdered by fascists for the crime of not being like them.
I'm not going to suddenly lose my loyalty to the species after replacing this suboptimal meat-chassis with something that looks like a cheetah fucked a giant mantis.
It was already pretty much destroyed. By humans.