Do you believe your gender is determined primarily by what you identify as? || Do you believe your race is determined primarily by what you identify as?
Quite surprising that people are more race essentialists than gender essentialists when race is more arbitrary, has fuzzier bounds, and many more people cross categories
The difference with which people treat transgenderism and transracialism is really fascinating to me. Both involve visibly different (but not always) groups, different cultural behavioral expectations, studies/debate around how much this is genetic, etc. 1/