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Originally Posted by Bladesman87
I don't know what a transtrender or a Rachel Dolezal is, so you're going to have to help me before I answer.
Let us begin from the presumption that race is generally immutable. You were born in a place, you have parents and for all intents and purposes, you have a lineage. Yes, there's a spectrum, but let's use the Affirmative Action qualification standards as to what comes to defining one's race. Agreed?
You are also born with a set of chromosomes, agreed? They determine whether you're male or female (we are not addressing red-herrings around intersex).
And we're going to agree that the previous characteristics are immutable and that one should not be discriminated against based on them. You're a human being, you deserve to be treated as such.
However, we provide "entitlements" based on your 'protected' class status. This is why Elizabeth Warren told Harvard she was Native American based on the picture on her fireplace mantle. Did you also know that women are favored in courtroom cases?
Now - we're going to take a previously immutable characteristic and make it mutable. Not only that - those who mutate their characteristic get even GREATER protections than those who don't mutate. A natural born female doesn't have any real recourse to being called a *****. But if I'm a trans-trender and tell you my pronoun is "zer" and you call me a *****, then you have misused my pronoun.
Rachel Dolezal was a white woman who used tanning products to get herself elected as the head of the NAACP chapter in Spokane Washtington. She claims she is black as she has always self-identified as a member of black community. What is the difference? If you can be transgender, can you be trans racial?
Two more questions for you:
Can I self identify as female on college admissions? Can I self identify as any race?
How do you feel about Male to Female athletes competing in sports?
(There is a sick thought that men invented transitioning to prove that men are even better women than women. Caitlyn Jenner was only a woman for 6 months and got woman of the year.)