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If race and gender are both social constructs (which they are) why do we accept transgender people but not transracial people?

Anonymous 21h

There's no neurobiological basis for race. While gender is largely social, there are brain regions associated with gender identity.

Anonymous 21h

Transgender identities are supported by scientific, neurological, and psychological frameworks. “Transracial" claims are widely rejected by sociologists and philosophers because they ignore how race is inherited and governed by community history

Anonymous 21h

Trans people have existed for centuries, despite colonization, trying to eradicate any culture that has any gender nonconformity outside of THEIR designated two genders has failed because trans people still exist in every culture, and gender as a concept has existed for a long ass time, but race is a made of concept that colonizers made.

Anonymous 21h

I’ve actually listened to a philosophy podcast talk about this at length.

Anonymous

#3 21h

One of the main things is that race is more of an external social categorization than a self-identifier. You are assigned race based on your ancestry, which you cannot control. Race often coincides with culture, which is more mutable. You can assimilate to and join another culture if you so choose.

Anonymous

#3 21h

“Transracial” is an actual thing. But in reality it refers to people who were adopted by an ethnicity different from their own and were raised in that ethnicity’s culture. Ex a white person raised by Chinese parents who speaks fluent Chinese and identifies as culturally Chinese.

Anonymous

#3 21h

In our society, gender tends to be a social role that impacts how you are referred to, who you date, and what you wear. So it’s different and more relevant to someone’s personal feelings than whoever they were born to. Plus as the others have said, gender dysphoria has scientific backing.