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Why is it okay to be trans-gendered (i.e., Laverne Cox), but not okay to be trans-race (i.e., Rachel Dolezal)? Serious answers only plz.?

If gender is more of a mindset than a biological factor, then can't race also be considered in the same way? I'm confused as to why we accept trans-gender, but ostracize trans-race. Being for or against both makes sense, but how is one okay and not the other?

NO TROLLS. Looking for a real, serious discussion here.

Thanks.

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago
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    Because being transgender is a real thing, whereas trans-racial is not.

    This guy it explains it well:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1qagVz2dzk

    And gender is not a "mindset", gender identity is programmed into the brain during fetal development. I suggest you watch this new documentary: Katie Couric National Geographic show on transgender (rewind to beginning):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47uSdJn15SM

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    Source(s): Transsexualism has a biological basis, being "trans-racial" does not.
  • ?
    Lv 6
    4 years ago

    Race is defined almost entirely by who your parents were and how you were raised. Race is obvious in the physical characteristics of a person.

    Gender is entirely internal. There are 0 external markers of true gender. When people assume gender from an unrelated characteristic (genitalia) then of course it makes mistakes.

  • Candy
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    The reason is things, like this.

    You don't have a physiological part of your brain that identifies you to a specific race, or to another species. Transgender people, do, at with their gender identity.

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  • 4 years ago

    I do not know where you got your information from but in my part of the real world it is most certainly NOT ok to be trans -gendered. These freaks are the most disgusting of nancy boy pooftas and need to be put down.

    Source(s): Many pompous years
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  • 4 years ago

    So long as you consider everything that happens in the womb prior to birth to be "biological", and how could you not, than being a transgender person IS biological.

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