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In reply to the discussion: There's no such thing as "Transracial" [View all]BKH70041
(961 posts)Certainly none of the regular members at this site are qualified to make their beliefs on this to be the universal standard for everyone.
This will fall into the category of "Law of Unintended Consequences," and it should.
If someone wants to call themselves a certain sex, but everything about their physical anatomy since birth says they aren't that at all, and this is to be accepted, then Pandora's Box is open. If Mike Tyson wants to call himself a woman and Elle McPherson wants to call herself a man, then so be it, they're what they call themselves. If Bernie Mac wants to call himself white and Jeff Dunham wants to call himself Eastern Asian, then so be it, they're what they want to call themselves. If someone calls themselves a leaf on a tree, then by gum they're a leaf on a tree.
Now, no doubt there will be those who will fight back against things they consider to be "absurd," but one person's absurd is another person's normal, or so we'll be told. And why not? The argument has worked to this point.
The genie is out of the bottle. Saying "there's no such thing as..." is a feather in the wind. There will be people who take these things and run with it, just as it's happened already with other things. I've already accepted it and am just going to kick back and watch the fun.