There's no such thing as "Transracial"

[markpkessinger]

42. Not so . . .

Biological sex is physical, but 'gender' encompasses not only biological sex, but also hormonal composition and intrinsic, psychological gender identity. For most people (although not all), their biological sex is fairly discrete. When it comes to hormonal composition, we all have both 'male' and 'female' hormones, and the precise mixture of the twp varies from person to person. AS for psychological gender identity, again, for most of us, it is consistent with our biological sex. But for some, there is a conflict between their gender identity and their biological sex.

There is, however, no such thing as intrinsic racial identity. The very concept of 'race' is entirely socially constructed by our surrounding culture, and to the extent one even has a racial identity, it is one that is externally imposed on a person by his or her culture. We are identified as belonging to one race or another primarily by how we are physically perceived by the surrounding culture. Ms. Dolezal's real offense lay in the fact that she appropriated the outward trappings of a culturally constructed identity which was not authentically her own. What a transgendered person does in adopting the outward appearance of the gender he or she identifies with is to express his or her intrinsic, authentic gender identity. Ms. Doleaal had the option to revert to her white identity at any time, if she had chosen to, simply by shedding the outward appearance of being African American. A transgendered person, however, does not shed his or her intrinsic identity when he or she or she sheds the appearance of the opposite sex.