Hi! I hope you are having a good day.
I saw radqueer includeds being pro transID.
I have a hard time understanding how trans-racial is OK. Trans-cultural makes sense to me, but race seems to be a fixed idea. While the concept of "race" is a socially defined concept, it is also very important to identify and day-to-day life. It's like money, very real because humans make it so, and it is not something that can be changed easily.
Why are you pro trans-racial? /gen
Hi! I will try my best to answer this, but I apologize if it seems baldy worded, I am going through SSRI withdrawal.
Just like how gender is a construct, so is race. The argument that no one could be another race from what they are born because of how deeply rooted race is into society, is the same argument that is often applied to people who are transgender, especially people who are nonbinary. Just like gender, we need to deconstruct the social construct of race.
There is no harm in someone being trans-racial, learning about their race, participating in it in a respectful way, and transitioning. The only perceived harm, is people claiming it is racist. Someone could say a trans woman is transitioning to "gain minority points", just like how someone could say a trans-black person is transitioning to "gain minority points".
It is unfortunate that people look at trans-racial people and automatically assume it is done out of malice, like how some transphobes view trans folks.
Just in case anyone was interested, I will also explain why I am aracial. I am cis-jewish, ethnically and religiously, but I am also German, and Russian. Looking at my amalgamation of genetics, one would say I am just a bunch of different types of white, but that is untrue. I am Jewish, making me very much NOT white, but since I am majority German and Russian, I look very white. I have a complicated relationship with my "whiteness", and with the fact that being Jewish makes me not white. I choose to identify as aracial, because I am very much not one race. (And before you say "well you're just mixed?" yeah, but I very much do not identify with that.) On top of all of this, I am black in the headspace.
Was this coherent, probably not? If I made no real argument in this post, come back in a month when I'm fully weened off my SSRI, lol.
