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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