With kids today, and this is coming from the observations of my 17 year old son with regards to his classmates...
"A lot of these kids who claim to be gay, trans, furries, ect are just playing a role to get other people to notice them. Being normal is boring but being a freak makes them feel special."
Pretty insightful if I say so myself. He acknowledges that it probably is real for a very small minority of them.
Like me, he doesn't really care either way what people do so long as he doesn't have to be involved.