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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Ok, this argument is also addressed...
And sorry, I've lost the thread. What is "this thing" referring to?
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That doesn't seem to refute my point. There's a lot of things about gender that are also not changed by identifying with that gender; terfs make similar sounding arguments except claim that their criteria is the more importantly dividing one
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your point: intergenerationality is not a good reason to disallow transracialism but accept transgenders.
my point: the intergenerational effects of being black are systemic and pervasive in a way that gender is not, and this is a sufficient point to make the two ideas different.
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Would you accept interracial identifications in a future where things are more equal, or in cultures today that don't have any generational racial discrepancies with wealth
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Hell yes! Once we are in a word where disparate outcomes are not linked to race, then it would be acceptable to use that (or any other) particular social construct in any way that you best identify. But that is not the world today, and will not be the world tomorrow either.
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