If anthros did existed, i believe they would be just humans who are mutated by something to become animal-esque in appearance but not in body structure/same parts/same genitals/same breasts/same hand structure/same eye colors like we do/same feet and some with fur, feathers or scales plus high intelligence to make them more human than animal in mind/intelligence for beak-like mouths they be soft like pillows instead of hard like a bird animal's beak and they would be just mutants even just like the X-Men's mutants and if they did existed, i think mutant people should be accepted among society as just because they are different don't mean it's bad and they can consent to regular looking humans and have same DNA like regular humans even conceieve children too plus mutated animal-like humans should be treated as equals. They would be just people who look different you know.
That's the point when i write my human male X anthro mutated human female stories as they are about overcoming differences and accepting each other for who they are and so is in Hatton Slayden's amazing arts of three different races (Xeno or antrho with human males) falling in love. Bojack Horseman, Doctor Who, Regular Show, Wolf Children, Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel comics (Hepzibah and Corsair with many more), the 1980s Beauty and the Beast TV show with Ron Perlman/Linda Hamilton, Warcraft the movie, Alien Nation the series, Cheetah X Batman on Justice League and more has this.
With that "dumb animals" remark they did back in the 1800s, it's weird to see something that is clearly the same species as something less than intelligent, madness eh? even they said the same thing back in the early 1940s in Germany about Jews that Hitler said as he said they were just "rats" because they were different or 25 years ago an African politician considered genocide on the Tutsi tribe as he declared them "cockroaches".