Look, understanding and relating to someone of a different race is one thing, but if you think that you somehow are that race then there’s something wrong in your brain, one way or another. It’s better than being like “I’m really a wolf” or similar nonsense, but only because at least you’re not claiming it believing that you’re a different species. Instead you’re on the sliding scale of delusion/dog whistle and either way I’d rather just not be around you.
What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Tiffany1994@lemmy.cafe to [deleted]
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Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Makes sense on the surface, but people have reacted exactly the same way the whole transgender concept. “You can be in touch with your feminine side but your still male” or whatever.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t waste your time, if someone is claiming transracialism then they are way too far gone and it’s not your job to understand or fix people that can’t be fixed or understood. Every interaction with that person will equate to a net loss on your life and time, they will hit the wall of reality eventually or die a joke.
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You don’t. That’s not even a dogwhistle, it’s outright racism and transphobia, and isn’t worth responding to any more than the normal flavors of racist. Report, block, and (for mods) ban.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The best way is asking: what’s your point? Is it that transgender shouldn’t be accepted or that transrace should?. And proceed from there to either defend transgenderism or criticize transracism accordingly.
First let me start by saying I strongly dislike the race therminology, but I’ll use it here for consistency, although normally I would call it ethnicity.
The difference between those lies in that gender is a social construct, and race is not. Race has some biological meaning, just like sex, people can’t change their sex (yet), they can’t change their race (yet).
Gender is a social construct, it’s things that have nothing to do with biology but that we as a society attribute in general to a specific sex. A similar concept for race would be culture, a person can be of the sex male but prefer to wear clothes usually associated with female sex, just like someone can be of the white ethnicity but prefer to hear music usually associated with black ethnicity. I wouldn’t call Eminem or Michael Jackson transrace, what would that even mean?
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t know anything about this issue but apparently the presumption here is that your view is the right view and you’re just asking how to splain it to the person. My question is about the “I’ve already blocked this person…” Instead could you possibly just limit your conversation to other subjects? It keeps looking like we’re all getting more and more isolated from each other and developing such extreme aversion to anyone not having our exact POV about everything, it reminds me of survivalist bunker mentality.
TheFANUM@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Transracial isn’t a thing. You can scientifically change your gender. You can’t change your race
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
“Shut up.”
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah fuck it, it’s 2025