Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?

toomanypancakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s not even a race, it’s usually a community with a different culture, so the entire term is invalid. And humans are one species with no races, despite this we keep the divisions that the less educated from history created.

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  • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    transracial adoption doesn’t imply that the child’s race is being changed but that the adopting family is of a different race than them. it’s usually meant to highlight the way white parents adopt Black children to be used as slave labor.

    we keep the divisions who’s we? this is dangerous and is implying that the only reason racism keeps being an issue is because Black people refuse to move on. only we as whites have the privilege to ignore the racial caste system and pretend like nothing is going on

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• garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Don’t even know if I’d call that transracial, that’s just a person who is of one ethnicity but was raised in a different culture than one might expect for someone who looks like them. There’s no “transitioning” happening there.

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• Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Transracial is an actual thing, but it refers to people of one race adopted by another

  I think a better word for it would be “Transcultural” or “Transethnithicy” ?

  But I’ve never heard of that specifically, closest people I know of are people with parents from other cultures who grew up in a different culture than one or both parents, call themselves “multicultural” or as having “multiethnicity”…

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