We're okay with transgender/queerness because we've stopped seeing the gender divide as actually meaningful. Once we stop seeing racial divides as actually meaningful, we'll be ok with transracialism too
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This is a well-studied topic, and is what’s referred to as essentialism. The fundamental difference is intergenerational discrimination.
Your understanding of this topic would be helped by reading:
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This article seemed extremely weak to me. Women have also experienced many of the things this article claims are unique to black people. Would transgenderism be less acceptable in a more obviously oppressive society, such as saudi arabia?
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Not sure if you got to this part, but I feel like this pretty well addresses your concern. It seems like you're misinterpreting the "intergenerationality" effect here, and only understanding it to mean "oppression".
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Still weak even given this; it's unclear why intergenerationality is a good reason for disallowing transracial identities as opposed to other things. If this thing suddenly and magically applied to women, would you consider transgender identities to no longer be valid?
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Or rather; these conditions imply that transgender people are only okay because there isn't sufficient difference in inherited suffering between men and women.
Which tbf does line up with my original tweet
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Reframed: There is 'no' inherited suffering based on gender. In contrast, there 'is' inherited suffering based on race. Therefore, they can't be compared as equivalent.
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