Vol8188
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I know I'm a smartarse on here most of the time, but I'm being serious when I say that I don't immediately see why "transracial" should be treated any differently than transgender. In both instances, the person claims to be different than they externally present. Philosophically, I don't know why we'd favor transgender over transracial in terms of legal/societal recognition. Thoughts?
We've had transracial for centuries. See, when people of whatever hue, house, clan, tribe, or nationality encounter each other, they end up forking, and miniature versions of them come into existence. If the versions are socially accepted by one or the other, or both, they can end up having a privileged status. Otherwise, they're referred to as half-brides, mulatto, mixed, high yellow, multiracial. Or cross-breed, mutt, mongrel or something worse. Further, mixed blood, mixed race, mixed heritage, quadroon, octoroon, hapa, pardo, sambo, even half-cracker. Foreign terms include, hāfu, daburu, bushies, cor de canela, cor de rosa, cor de crema, cor de burro, I could go on. And yet, the term transracial would be a very appropriate and accurate descriptive of them. So, the answer to your question is, transracial has already happened, been happening for generations. That's on account of whether out of curiosity, lust, spite (rape), arranged marriage, forced marriage, convenience, clandestine rendezvous, or whatever, people always end up forking each other. And being genetically compatible, transracial offspring are produced. Next question?
What about transgender? It's a fake construct, far as I'm concerned. It often includes man-made interference, such as surgical adaptions, mental gymnastics to re-label people, and other artificial hookum-pookum. I can admit that while there may be incidents of mutations, such as a person born with both male and female genitals, most of this gender identify crisis stuff is just folks with attentionisticism, or being just plain mentally twisted.
Have you confused transracial with biracial?We've had transracial for centuries. See, when people of whatever hue, house, clan, tribe, or nationality encounter each other, they end up forking, and miniature versions of them come into existence. If the versions are socially accepted by one or the other, or both, they can end up having a privileged status. Otherwise, they're referred to as half-brides, mulatto, mixed, high yellow, multiracial. Or cross-breed, mutt, mongrel or something worse. Further, mixed blood, mixed race, mixed heritage, quadroon, octoroon, hapa, pardo, sambo, even half-cracker. Foreign terms include, hāfu, daburu, bushies, cor de canela, cor de rosa, cor de crema, cor de burro, I could go on. And yet, the term transracial would be a very appropriate and accurate descriptive of them. So, the answer to your question is, transracial has already happened, been happening for generations. That's on account of whether out of curiosity, lust, spite (rape), arranged marriage, forced marriage, convenience, clandestine rendezvous, or whatever, people always end up forking each other. And being genetically compatible, transracial offspring are produced. Next question?
What about transgender? It's a fake construct, far as I'm concerned. It often includes man-made interference, such as surgical adaptions, mental gymnastics to re-label people, and other artificial hookum-pookum. I can admit that while there may be incidents of mutations, such as a person born with both male and female genitals, most of this gender identify crisis stuff is just folks with attentionisticism, or being just plain mentally twisted.
Not a fan of Clay, but I'm still waiting for a cogent explanation of the distinction. Until I hear one, I don't know if there's a principled distinction between trangender and transracial. In fact, there's a greater scientific basis for gender than race.
If someone born male says "I have always felt like a woman trapped in a man's body. So I wanna be recognized as a woman." Fine, I agree to recognize her/him as a woman. I couldn't care less. But why do we say no when a white or black person says they've always felt their skin color is all wrong and they wanna be recognized as someone from the other race because they've always felt "black" or "white"? But liberals refuse to recognize them as their preferred race. That seems to be a patent contradiction. Gender and race are both protected categories under title vii. Why are we saying ok with one but not the other?
Have you confused transracial with biracial?
They are not the same. At all.Could be. I view them as one and the same, as both denote being of more than one extraction. But you know how it is with labels. I say passenger van, you say SUV. To me, one is a Dodge Caravan, to you, the other is a GMC Terrain. Yet both are transport vehicles, that at their core, are actually trucks.
Groups should be protected for characteristics we are born with, not for choices that we make. How you feel about your gender and sexuality doesn't seem to be much of a choice for people.
And scientifically speaking, there are people born with irrefutable gender confusion...meaning even the parents and doctors are confused. We have some research that suggests transgender people's brain activity is more like that of the sex they transitioned to.
If somebody who is mixed race wants to identify as just white or just black, that seems the equivalent of somebody who is born with gender confusion. It's nothing like Rachel Dolezal deciding she likes black culture and the perks she leveraged pretending to be a minority, unless we are talking liars and fakes, like her.
I know I'm a smartarse on here most of the time, but I'm being serious when I say that I don't immediately see why "transracial" should be treated any differently than transgender. In both instances, the person claims to be different than they externally present. Philosophically, I don't know why we'd favor transgender over transracial in terms of legal/societal recognition. Thoughts?
This is going to be a dilemma.. Does he go with the "race is a social construct" thus identifying as another race is acceptable, or does he go with "race is biological science (it is)" and denounce it.Wonder what @NashVol11 thinks of transracial
This'll be interesting. He's all about supporting the trans. I mean, we all know that the black community fully supports the trans...This is going to be a dilemma.. Does he go with the "race is a social construct" thus identifying as another race is acceptable, or does he go with "race is biological science (it is)" and denounce it.