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208289, This implies that trans people are trying to pass as cis...
Posted by Starbaby Jones, Mon Jun-15-15 10:36 AM
and that's not the case. Trans people don't claim to be biological men or women. They don't try to act as if they've inherited the struggles of cis men or women, as they have their own. They're only seeking the freedom of their own gender expression. If Rachel Dolezal was aiming at expressing blackness as an expansion of racial expression rather than adopting blackness and its legacy of struggle, I could maybe see it for her. However, she's doing something completely different. So, if there are people trying to make "transracial" an actual thing, she's the last person you should use as an example.