Might catch some flack for this but we are at the point where "Therian" "Otherkin" and "Alterhuman" are becoming interchangable and that's a good thing. In the forum era those things were used to redirect folk elsewhere because their weird didn't mesh with yours. Now it's just personal preference.
VƎX WerewolfTherians gatekeeping based on "reality" will never not be funny to me because if you look at it from a pure "reality" perspective none of us are "really" wolves or dragons or Pokemon, we're all "really" just humans at the end of the day. Your approach to therianism can be invalidated just as easily.