There's no such thing as "Transracial"

[Damansarajaya]

120. I've got to part company with you on this . . .

With all due respect, and I value your opinion very highly here and at DI, I don't know how one can square this with supporting trans-genderism.

Isn't it equally "dishonest" for men to undergo surgery and pass themselves off as women? And before you say no, consider if you're in a relationship with someone for several months including a sexual relationship and then you find out your girlfriend lived her first 26 years of life as a man.

Is that "dishonest?" It seems to me that if one supports the transgendered, and I do, then one has to support the trans-racials.

Take a look at Johnny Otis, for instance. I always thought the guy who brought "Hound Dog" to Elvis Presley was black. Turns out, he was Greek-American, but that didn't stop him from letting people think he was black.

"While growing up as part of a Greek immigrant family in Berkeley, California, Otis began a lifelong attraction and commitment to African American culture. He celebrated the vibrancy of African American music and its power to unite people across racial boundaries, coming to think of himself as 'black by persuasion.'"

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Johnny-Otis

“Yes, I chose,” Otis reflected in 1979, “because despite all the hardships, there’s a wonderful richness in black culture that I prefer.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/9028829/Johnny-Otis.html