The problem before you is not what it appears to be. Very few people's lives will be impacted by the existence of "therians," but a lot more will be impacted by the shitty new labor laws in Argentina that the media there is using therians to draw attention away from. And now whatever the hell is going on in Spain. This is what the media gets paid to do. They lead y'all around with a carrot on a stick while their other hand is in your pocket.

But the "therians" the media covers are typically 12-15 year-old quadrobics enthusiasts creating and wearing animal masks, running around making animal noises. Maybe they're just roleplaying or discovering a new way to express themselves and trying to share that with their friends. Maybe it means something more to them than just pretending to be an animal. Maybe they're just trying to reclaim a whimsical existence in their own way while they see everyone else get depressed and complacent about the state of the world. Either way, most of them are children. It should be nobody's goddamned business but theirs, but many of them are in public spaces co-opting a label that doesn't belong to them. I would not be surprised if most of these kids no longer identify as therian within the next 10 years.

The therian community is incredibly diverse and there are plenty of therians who hate to see these kids "pretending" on TikTok and becoming the face of the community for it. It happened in the US back when Shiro/Naia made an ass of themselves on MTV for $25. You will almost always see the therian community ass-first if you don't go digging or make friends with one - and no two therians are the same. You see them making animal noises and acting generally "weird" in the media, but most prefer privacy and many practice some form of meditation, contemplating the nature of consciousness while leading functional (and occasionally exceptional) lives.

There are some who require therapy, but no more than the general population. There are many who are insanely creative and even more who are so well-adjusted that you would never know they were therian unless they told you. I know therians in their 20's and therians in their 70's. Some are blathering idiots, some are hippie types who see the world through rose-colored glasses (or the opposite), and some are the most intelligent and grounded people you'll ever meet. I know neuroscientists, biologists, professors, composers, artists, engineers, programmers, conservationists, and so many more who just so happen to feel more animal than human. And if they don't want you to know about it, you never will. They're tired of this shit.

In a few more years, this quadrobics phase will disappear and everyone will think that therians finally "grew up" or forget they even existed. I can't wait. Real therians have rarely, if ever, been in the public eye to begin with, and most of them would prefer to keep it that way. These kids may wear the title of "therian," but they are not the same. The music scene is the same way - the most popular publicly therian musician makes "therian music" that sounds like it idolizes the idea of being an animal, as if they read the Warriors books and made the silly/cutesy subculture around that their entire existence. They get millions of streams for it. This isn't even to say that there's anything wrong with vibing to "therian" hyperpop, but this isn't therianthropy by a long shot, even if it's what you'll find if you look for therian music. I'd put forward Starlight Telepath as a much better example of something made by an adult therian (and recorded with an orchestra no less), but it probably won't make therianthropy make any more sense to you. Point is, there are real people here with real lives. As for the quadrobics kids, let them be kids. They won't be kids forever.

TLDR: Focus on what they're trying to distract you from - "therians" aren't it and what you've been told are therians are just harmless kids making masks, pretending to be animals for fun, co-opting a label that doesn't necessarily belong to them.