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Topic subject | i'm not saying its up to me, i just want to understand how it works. |
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208115, i'm not saying its up to me, i just want to understand how it works. Posted by now or never, Fri Jun-12-15 04:49 PM
if we're gonna make the transgender/transracial comparison one i can wrap my head around (albeit a little bit) because i can understand a person feeling femininity while existing in a body that we identify as male or vice versa however it's been described to me, it usually involves some iteration of feeling born in a body that they would like to alter
the other idea of being born in a race that isn't correct or wanting to change race i don't understand because i don't know what its based on is it a feeling that the person should have been born a different race and that person spends their life knowing they should have been asian/white/black/italian whatever? is there some inherent discomfort that plagues them that drives them to attempt to change their race? is there such thing as changing your race (i.e. racial reconstructive surgery)? i'm not trying to get anyone to prove or validate anything to me personally i'm just trying to understand the parallel of transgender and transracial if there is one
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