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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Counterpoint: what’s at stake in the “transracial validity” debate? It’s important that society addresses transgender injustices because there’s a long history of violence against transfolk. I’ll admit that I’m not super familiar, but I dont see that in the history of transracialism.
Transracial person: “im black”
Bigot: “no youre not”
end scene.
Transgender person: “I’m a girl”
Bigot: “no youre not”
Cue decades of abuse, oppression, and violence.
It’s just not a big enough concern for most people so their default opinion is the one for the status quo, IMO.
MaoriPrincess@lemmy.cafe 19 hours ago
So because you perceive transracial people to have not been as persecuted or as oppressed as transgender people, that means it’s okay to devalue and invalidate their identities?
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
No, but it means that the transracial community has some social advocating to do before most people will care one way or another. It wasn’t that long ago that the funniest thing a movie could do was put a man in a dress, y’know.