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208401, There's one huge caveat to that statement, we didn't "create" transgender
Posted by Starbaby Jones, Tue Jun-16-15 08:38 AM
It already existed, as noted in one of the previous articles posted. We came up with the label, sure, but transgender people were already here. I haven't seen much precedence for people feeling as born the wrong race, non ironically at least. We also have to come back to the notion of whether or not race has an intrinsic "feeling" in the sense that sexual orientation or gender does. I don't think it does, because I've only felt my "blackness" in the context of white supremacy. I don't think there's anything intrinsic about it. Were it not for the fact that I've had to confront white supremacy at damn near every turn in my life, I'm not sure how cognizant I'd be of my race.