>which is fine...
>
>but note: nobody is trying to tell people how they should
>feel or self-categorize, except perhaps a number of people in
>this post telling this woman Rachel how she should feel and
>how she should self-identity.
>
>The irony is that those same people stand in defense of
>transgendered people to have the open, creative space to
>self-identity and feel the way they feel, but when it comes to
>race - it's an entirely different philosophical process.
>
>It's an interesting discussion - and perhaps not yet ripe
>enough to be made sense of on a larger, societal scale.
>
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