white people stop acting like we live in a post-racial society challenge!
also, being trans was never biological, that’s called bio-essentialism
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Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Transracial doesn’t exist because “Race” in the context that they want to use it doesn’t exist.
Genetically there’s only one “race”; that’s the human race. If they want to identify as a different culture, it’s purely a cosmetic cultural thing, not biological or genetic. Whereas as being Transgender is biological. Therefore, you can safely tell people like Rachel Dolezal to fuck off and go back to fifth period science class.
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Saying that race isn’t real is not the same as saying that we live in a post-racial society.
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
it is actually because how could racism exist without race? the only people who claim race isn’t real are white
SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
If the earth isn’t flat, how can there be flat-earthers?
Race can be pseudo-scientific bullshit, and still have a bunch of racists around. The idea of race is, at its core, a racist idea.
EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I don’t really think I can come up with a more concise way of summarizing the idea than anthropologist Audrey Smedley did on the first result of the Google search “race social construct”
Race is a culturally structured systematic definition of a way of looking at perceiving and interpreting reality.
I would recommend you read something like “Feminism and ‘Race’” from Oxford Readings in Feminism or some of bell hooks’ work to understand the idea better.
froh42@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Race” was invented by racists. There was a lot of fake science here in Germany in the 30s to “prove” that not only “human races” exist, but even so that they have different worth.
So this is what I always still hear when someone is using the word - and commonly they are racists.
I do understand where you’re coming from, and I totally agree that there are a fucking lot of supremacist people and yes - if I had been a teenager in the 30s, people would have seen I’m blonde, blue-eyed and tall. So I would have that privilege and still it is a privilege in the modern world.
Prejudices about skin color exist, I absolutely agree. Racists exist, I agree. Just “race” - every time I hear that, it’s like something out of the Nazi textbooks my grandfather had to use at school.
seralth@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Uhh while gender is a social construct that’s existed in countless forms though out all of history.
Sex and transsexual are VERY much a biological thing.
You can’t just say trans isn’t biological. Transgendered isn’t, but gender isn’t biology.
Sex IS biology and transsexual IS biological.
You need to be specific if you want to get into actually defined scientific terminology.
Steve@communick.news 1 day ago
Gender isn’t biological. You’re conflating with sex
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Well trans people, if they medically transition, quite literally change their sex.
Steve@communick.news 1 day ago
If they don’t, they’re still transitioning their gender. Exactly how much they decide to change themselves doesn’t matter. That’s the point of the term.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Trans people transition BOTH their sex and their gender. The term “transgender” is a broad umbrella term. But most people under that label do seek to physically change their bodies. You’re arguing semantics, I’m arguing the lived experience of living breathing human beings.