Question - eviltoast

I want to preface this by saying that we have a zero tolerance policy for transphobia. Your comment will be removed and you will be banned if you spout transphobia here. Our existence is not up for debate.

That said, how do you differentiate being transgender and being trans racial?

I’m curious how to answer this question in a good faith debate with someone. Emotionally I know that they’re not the same and that one is wrong and the other is not wrong, but I’m unsure as to why that is and am curious if anyone else has given any thought about it.

  • zea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    Racial identity seems to be heavily tied to culture from what I gather from people, so I assume transracial means changing what culture you identify with.

    Immigrants that culturally assimilate are an interesting case to look at. Suppose I, a white American, moved to China and assimilated there. Would you call me white? American? Chinese? If “race” means phenotypical characteristics, then we shouldn’t care about race and “transracial” is stupid, but if it means like your culture, then it is worth caring about and “transracial” seems more understandable. I don’t know what definition people use in practice though, probably a mix of both (because things can never be simple). A difference from gender is that culture isn’t a purely internal thing, you kind of have to be a part of it IRL.

    I don’t have good language for this, all the terms are overloaded and confusing. It feels kinda like talking about gender/sex without having distinct words for them. Without distinction, we blend conceptually different things and then get confused when we mix the concepts in edge cases.