This is from my last post, many people disagreed with my belief. Since people are able to identify and claim whatever they want to be. I am now a trans white. I do not consider nor identify myself as an African-American woman anymore. I don’t feel comfortable in my skin. I don’t believe this was my right race at birth. So I...
I think people need to take a step back from the vitriol and realize the irony in @deadgirlwalking's statement about wanting to claim being white when they are black.
At the core, trans men / women identify differently from their gene or cellular biologics; this is fundamentally no different than someone black / white claiming to identify differently from their gene or cellular biologics. If you are OK with one, you must and should be OK with the other...
I think the reason why @deadgirlwalking is having such difficulty with this 'showerthought' is because it hits home for them in a different way.
Don't think about the centuries of slavery and racism @deadgirlwalking 's ancestors endured, no... think about the racism that PoCs endure today, yet its relatively less socially divisive for men / women to be something else.
I think delivery was wrong, but there is a powerful message in the discussion of this 'showerthought' ...
Except that there are biological components that are also part of transgenderism that explain why someone with male physiology expresses female thoughts and feelings or vice versa, or other types of internal gender identity.
What biological components are those? Please explain what you mean
Not saying you are wrong, but a few things to note / discuss:
The study indicates that CYP17 is a "candidate gene"? It isn't fully proven...
The study indicates the CYP17 gene is valid for FtM but not MtF transitions... which means at best it can only explain half the population of trans right now
The study I linked was done with under 2000 people in 2007, and a later study in 2015 was done with under 700 people. When you compare that to the estimated 30-70 million transgender potential people, the study is lacking in my statistical opinion...
Further, have you considered that maybe trans-racialism simply is too new and hasn't been studied enough?
I think there needs to be more government involvement and protection in how data is collected, shared, and consumed; however, I also think people don't realize that their perception of 'privacy' has always had the major benefit of being from the perspective of an individual that largely is unprofitable.
Many celebrities would very likely tell the public that 'privacy' is largely a myth and the reason their perspective is that way is because their lives, activities, and actions are viewed as profitable to someone. A lucrative paycheck from acquiring that salacious photo in a vulnerable position, etc is a big motivator, and if the celebrity gets mad at the paparazzi, there's even more news about how the celebrity lost their shit for all the world to see; however, if the celebrity embraces the media and tries to work with them to conserve what little 'privacy' they have, there is negative news about how the celebrity is fake or too controlling about their image. At the end of the day, these celebrities simply want to have dinner out with family or friends and they can't.
The general public isn't used to the idea that someone cares enough about every nuanced detail of their decisions that it would matter... but it does. Sadly, a celebrity must spend thousands of dollars to secure their privacy, and even then it isn't a guarantee... what hope do we have? In today's society we use debit or credit cards, but all of the transactions are data mined by the banks and privacy is non-existent; however, with cash you have some built-in 'privacy' because at its core it is not easily profitable to track.
And that is the point; Data collection is slowly bridging the gap between a celebrity's reality and normal everyday human perception of 'privacy'.
I Am Able To Change My Race, Right?
This is from my last post, many people disagreed with my belief. Since people are able to identify and claim whatever they want to be. I am now a trans white. I do not consider nor identify myself as an African-American woman anymore. I don’t feel comfortable in my skin. I don’t believe this was my right race at birth. So I...
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