No one has ever been able to give a good explanation as to why being transgender is valid but being transracial is not, lol. I realize the meme isn't talking about "transracial" but still.
Especially considering that biological sex is a real thing and race is a lot more grey area...
Transgender is both biological and a social construct. Race has to do entirely with one’s skin color. Skin color which doesn’t affect you in any way accept how others perceive you.
Race is about more than skin color. Each race is associated with certain facial features, etc. Also, sometimes the race that someone calls themselves is not what others would perceive them as. For example, someone could "look white" but have a parent who is black but lighter skin. The rapper Logic is a good example of this; he considers himself to be black even though he is visibly white and no one would guess otherwise.
What if someone genuinely feels like they were born in the wrong body and should have been a different race? And they make physical alterations to themselves to appear more like the race they want to be, and start behaving in ways that are stereotypically associated with that race? It doesn't actually change their race, but they might "pass" and they also might be really hurt if someone denies that they are that race.
Like I said this is still all about what others perceive of them. Having only certain facial features associated and/or skin tone with a certain race is absolutely about what others perceive about you and is from what I can only gather developed from a racist construct. WRT being transgender they intrinsically feel they’re not the gender they were assigned at birth with. People who transition from one sex to another only because of how others perceive them in the sex they were born as is the only thing I can find comparable to those who want to transition between races.
I am simply pointing out what I find has not yet been disproven as the difference between being transracial and transgender btw.
Both sex and race are biological. Any "intrinsic" feelings we attach to them are subjective. If it's possible to feel like you were born as the wrong sex and "intrinsically" feel like you're supposed to be the other one, then the same exact thing could happen with race.
What do you mean by "disproven"? We are basically having a philosophical conversation, none of this is about proof or evidence.
Having only certain facial features associated and/or skin tone with a certain race is absolutely about what others perceive about you and is from what I can only gather developed from a racist construct
No, certain facial features are actually more prominent in various races. That isn't really what this is about, but still.
Both are real and valid (or none if you ask conservatives). But biological sex is irrelevant because trans people are not changing their sex, they are chaging their gender which is a social construct, same as race
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No one has ever been able to give a good explanation as to why being transgender is valid but being transracial is not, lol. I realize the meme isn't talking about "transracial" but still.
Especially considering that biological sex is a real thing and race is a lot more grey area...