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Cisspecies representatives of nonhuman creatures have not stepped forward to speak about what their internal experience is like such that humans claiming to really be those species on the inside may be shown not to be making shit up.
If they did, it would be an empirical question whether your human-shaped Klingon-minded person reported experiences relevantly similar to regular Klingons.
It may all be stuff that people are making up in any case. I believe I'm Jewish. I believe I'm American. These have personal and (especially for the second) political implications because people would generally agree with me about both.
I'm not sure there's a huge qualitative difference between that sort of belief and believing that one is a unicorn.
Actually, there's a difference I didn't think of last night. I believe I'm Jewish and American because people kept telling me I am, and I wasn't immune.
However, there are people who aren't Jewish who feel they are really Jewish, and convert.
Huh. Now you mention it, it does feel eerily similar. I won't convert unless everything goes obscenely well, but I keep having to remind myself I'm a Gentile.
It's evidence for my "what group do you want to affiliate with?" theory of the social part of gender dysphoria, which I'll post about soonish.
There are also people who feel they are Jewish, but other Jews would probably disagree ...
See also Jews for Jesus who look a lot more like evangelical Christians, and Christian Identity who are apt to believe that they are descendents of the lost ten tribes who ended up in Britain, and that the other people who think they're Jewish aren't Jewish.