Exactly! It doesn’t harm anyone to respect how others wish to be identified. I don’t see it as being any different from someone wanting to be called “they/them” instead of “he” or “she.”
We’ve normalized that, so why not extend the same courtesy to someone who feels a deep connection to another race? It’s like if your name is Sam, but you prefer to be called Tyler because it resonates more with you—fine by me.
But what’s really surprising is the level of hostility I’ve seen since starting this community. A lot of the language being used is the same sort of degrading rhetoric people used to attack transgender individuals.
And people calling me a troll and calling this a racist troll sub because I am talking about these issues. All because they don’t want to admit their own hatred for things that they don’t have experience with.
I don’t think trans race is at all the same as transgender, which is what I meant by the part of variations in gene expression. Neither race or gender expression is a social construct, but how we interpret these things sure is
I see transracial and transgender as having the same issues around identity and self-expression.
If someone feels a strong connection to a different race, I don’t see why respecting that identity is any different from respecting someone’s chosen gender.
The whole concept of transracial identity is relatively new, but it’s starting to get attention from more and more social studies researchers and psychologists as a legitimate area of exploration and understanding.
Exactly! It doesn’t harm anyone to respect how others wish to be identified. I don’t see it as being any different from someone wanting to be called “they/them” instead of “he” or “she.”
We’ve normalized that, so why not extend the same courtesy to someone who feels a deep connection to another race? It’s like if your name is Sam, but you prefer to be called Tyler because it resonates more with you—fine by me.
But what’s really surprising is the level of hostility I’ve seen since starting this community. A lot of the language being used is the same sort of degrading rhetoric people used to attack transgender individuals.
And people calling me a troll and calling this a racist troll sub because I am talking about these issues. All because they don’t want to admit their own hatred for things that they don’t have experience with.
Thanks for your post, friend!
I don’t think trans race is at all the same as transgender, which is what I meant by the part of variations in gene expression. Neither race or gender expression is a social construct, but how we interpret these things sure is
I see transracial and transgender as having the same issues around identity and self-expression.
If someone feels a strong connection to a different race, I don’t see why respecting that identity is any different from respecting someone’s chosen gender.
The whole concept of transracial identity is relatively new, but it’s starting to get attention from more and more social studies researchers and psychologists as a legitimate area of exploration and understanding.