r/transfurs

Heya! My name is Rika, also known as Tilt Wolf. I'm a biochemist and cell biologist, having served in various research and executive/board leadership roles at the Freedom of Form Foundation (2020-2026), most recently as VP & CSO. I'm also a coywolf therian since about 2005.

Last spring, I left the FFF alongside the CTO (Lathreas), and we're now excited to be putting together a new biotech startup aligned with the goal of "anthros in real life". Our company's working title is Transformation Biosciences, Inc., or TF Bio for short, and our site will launch fairly soon. TF Bio is focused on wet-lab tissue engineering research, likely starting with a combination of hair follicles, skin, and ear cartilage. We have enough funding already to get off the ground, but as we bring in more folks to fund the research, we need to understand what the therian community sees as a "minimum viable transformation" – the minimum set of body changes that you would accept for your own personal goals.

We already know that the vast majority of furries, according to FurScience @ University of Waterloo, would choose to become "less than 100% human" if given the option (>79%). But what we don't know is the minimum change that you're willing to accept, for a surgical procedure to be worth it to you right now. To be clear, we will not stop until we reach the full anthro TF goal, but we'd like to know the earliest point at which our work begins to help people.

So the question is this: if the medical technology appeared tomorrow to make it possible, which of the following is the minimum that you'd accept and undergo a voluntary procedure for?

This information helps steer which areas of research we focus on, and when.

Just for clarity, note that we're focusing on furry species for now, starting with wolves, because they are common and somewhat more anatomically feasible. Eventually, we will expand to other furry species. In the longer term, we may also branch out to scalies and avians, but the technical challenges there are quite a bit more intense~

We also welcome other STEM-trained therians and furries who want to collaborate with our little team of biological scientists working on this R&D, so please don't hesitate to DM~ :3

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Just spoke with support because out of the 20-odd matches I have, only 3 of them were ones I actually liked. Not only this, but the app is automatically forcing me to instantly ask everyone for nudes/private images. After dealing with the roundabout of the AI support, I was helped by someone. I had already disabled auto message and the other automation features. the conversation is as follows:

OP:
The app is also auto-requesting people’s private photos?

Support:
Regarding your second concern, you are currently part of a test where, when a user is liked, an automatic Private Card request is sent. At the moment, there’s no option to turn off this feature.

I’d like to note that this is not an official change but part of a test we recently launched. Whether this feature remains will depend on the test results, which is why we highly value and take into account all user feedback.

I’ll be right back to update you on your initial concern.

Thank you for your patience, OP. After checking thoroughly, it looks like this is related to the Curated Batch feature.

Unfortunately, there may be times when you will not notice that you accidentally enabled this feature. If that happens, a batch of Curated Likes will be sent on your behalf.

Of course, you can absolutely prevent this from happening in the future; just be on the lookout the next time the screen pops up so these likes aren’t accidentally sent again.

 

OP:
I have made absolutely sure not to select curated batch, because I have no desire to like profiles I haven’t seen.

With respect, I can also certainly say that this test-feature is not going to be one people want. Creating a dedicated feature curated to asking for private photos without even saying hello is insulting and gross. It’s also completely unreasonable that I should be forced to play the role of such behavior and not have the option to opt out of the test.

I appreciate you looking into this but I *will* be deleting my account moving forward.

I want to say that, while I have been explicitly careful to not touch the Curated Batch notifications, I am humble enough to admit when I am wrong. It's entirely possible I selected yes without knowing to one of the prompts, but I also feel like 3:20 is a questionable ratio for it to have been only one batch. I've only used this app for about 5 hours and installed it two days ago.
EVEN IF I accidentally accepted a Curated batch, that's still 20 people I've now suddenly requested nudes from without even greeting or talking to. I feel disgusted, and looking through other reddit posts, their moderator did confirm elsewhere that this test-feature is only disabled for accounts marked as Ace or Aro. It shouldn't be a feature at all, and we should if nothing else be able to decline participation in the test batch. Poor design choice, poor execution.