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Aella
@Aella_Girl
imo trans acceptance is gaining a foothold cause there's no longer enough very meaningful differences between the lives of men and women; the bridge between the two *can* be jumped, and so people have started jumping it. I predict a similar thing will start happening with race
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David Shariatmadari
@D_Shariatmadari
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@Aella_Girl
It feels like this proposition makes sense if you take transgender to be a cultural phenom. but there is likely a biological correlate of being trans (significant concordance for gender identity among identical twins, not among fraternal ones). there isn't for 'transracialism'.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@D_Shariatmadari
My guess is that transgenderism is partially a cultural phenomenon (which doesn't make it any less valid!), and also that there is some sort of "not a choice, an unexplained urge, best explained through alternate brain wiring" that exists for transracialism
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David Shariatmadari
@D_Shariatmadari
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@Aella_Girl
Am heavily sceptical about that - any affinity you might have with different race is *so* culturally dependent - what can the attraction to Native American culture vs the attraction to black or jewish culture have in common? stretch to imagine this 'urge' cd have biol. correlate
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