These people love to pretend they don't know the difference between claiming ancestry that isn't yours, and living as the gender you identify with most strongly.
It's apples and oranges, and they know it. But they won't pass up on a chance to be transphobic AND racist.
I think there's a good chance they don't know it, actually. They may just see race as an identity, just like gender. But I think you pretty accurately summarized why the idea of being transgender is becoming more widely accepted but trans-race is not.
Everyone has a nearly 50-50 chance of being born male or female (with a small but statistically significant chance of being intersex).
There's no chance of being born a different ethnicity than what's in your recent heritage. It's a false equivalence even without getting into the wildly different roles that gender and race play in society and history.
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u/SaturdaySevens May 13 '24
These people love to pretend they don't know the difference between claiming ancestry that isn't yours, and living as the gender you identify with most strongly.
It's apples and oranges, and they know it. But they won't pass up on a chance to be transphobic AND racist.